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Alleged billion-rupee fraudster Sakvithi Ranasinghe has been released on bail by the Nugegoda Magistrate this morning. The financial fraudster Sakvithi Ranasinghe and his wife were arrested on 10, August 2010.

Meanwhile Sakvithi Ranasinghe is serving a 30-month jail term that was imposed by the Colombo High Court on charges of have raped an under aged girl.

Should invite them for Night Race in Kandy.

Members of the Excise Department have reportedly been travelling to supermarkets and taverns around the city seeking to enforce a previously unenforced law, which prevents the sale of liquor to women.

Eppawala Police arrested 12 suspects planning to hunt for artefacts in an archaeologically significant location in Pothanegama and rescued a four-year-old girl on Tuesday.

The suspects had brought the girl as human sacrifice with the intention of obtaining a treasure, the Police said.

The Police also took into custody an oxygen cylinder, two oxygen guns, 14 polysacks and other implements. The girl was handed over to the Jayanthi Children`s home.

The suspects produced before Tambuttegama Magistrate`s Court were remanded.

Obama and Mahinda with their DOGs :)

I am the 43rd Chief Justice of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. As the Chief Justice, I have an obligation and an unwavering duty towards the judges, lawyers and the citizens at large of my country.

I stand here before you today having been unjustly persecuted, vilified and condemned. The treatment meted out to me in the past few weeks, was an ordeal no citizen let alone the Chief Justice of the Republic should be subjected to. The 32 years of continuous service at the University of Colombo and the Supreme Court, during my 54 year lifespan, I have rendered in varying capacities towards my mothers_day.jsp' class=black>motherland, is rewarded unfortunately, in this unjust manner.

Most hardest riddle in the world!

Even the entire patriots of Sri Lanka call The President H.E. Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa as `Maharajaneni` (The King), he never says he is a king, instead he says he is a servant to the entire Sri Lankans.

Police said that a personal dispute between Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha member Hasitha Madawala and the five suspects led to his killing as they found out that the suspects are close relatives of a woman who lodged a police complaint few months ago against the Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman and Madawala.

The Parliamentary Secretary of Minister Mervyn Silva identified as Sunil is the brother of the woman and the organizer called Rangana is her son.

Don`t say that `I don`t remember any of these`!!!

This is the last paragraph of the article written by Colonel. J. Fernando. It`s a shame that the army who defeated most ruthless terrorist group in the world is helpless before politically backed armed thugs.

Today, our forces are being treated like a used condom. They sell vegetables, provide security for the former LTTE leaders and get beat up on street, in the lobby of a hotel by thugs.

Feel sorry that great solders have to live like this!!!

The police have taken the parents of a 15-year-old girl into custody on the charge of allowing her to be raped by two youths.

Father Karunasinghe Gedera Jayalath (48) and mothers_day.jsp' class=black>mother R.M.H. Premalatha, residents of Kokaweva, Gatalawa, were produced before Anuradhapura Magistrate and Additional District Judge, Ruwandika Marapana, who ordered them to be remanded until 9August.

Rs.2.50 Deshapreminta Sudu Puthawa mathakada??

President Mahinda Rajapaksa expressing that his government would not allow anyone to interfere with the country` judiciary, said he was saddened by the fact that such a suspicion has arisen in the judiciary regarding a Cabinet member of the government.

Addressing an event in Gannoruwa today, the President said it was the government`s duty to protect the independency of the judiciary and his government respected that independency to the core. We cannot run a country without a law. We can`t allow anyone to interfere with the law of the country and we as a government will do everything to protect it and not to destroy it.

Minister Wimal Weerawansa said today the recent Z- Score fiasco was not the fault of the government but instead the eminent person who devised it should take the blame.

Who devised the Z score? It was not the ministers neither was it a decision of the cabinet. It was devised by intellectuals, therefore if something goes wrong with it why do the ministers have to be blamed? Instead it is those who devised it who should be blamed, he said.