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The son of Mervyn Silva, Malaka, Rehan Wijeyrathne and 4 other suspects were discharged today from the assault case of an Army Major on instructions the of the Attorney General.

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Seven suspects including Malaka and Rehan were produced in court earlier for the alleged assault of Major Chandana Pradeep Susena and stolen his chain and mobile phone at Hilton residencies, Colombo late last year.

Three automobile engineers from Chennai have come out with what they claim can check sexual offences in India -- a lingerie laced with modules of GPS and
capable of sending alerts to the girl`s parents and police.

`The lingerie, laced with modules of global positioning system (GPS), global system for mobile communications (GSM) and also pressure sensors, is capable of sending shock waves

This is wow. As the Chairman of the company responsible for the biggest mobile operating system on the planet, an argument could be made that you have an obligation to actually use the company product. Imagine Tim Cook using Windows Phone, or Steve Balmer using Android. It`s not a good look, is it?

On the other hand, and I`ve debated this with many before, I always say use what ever hardware or software combination makes you the most productive regardless. Schmidt, despite no doubt having had (at least a little) hands on experience with many Android devices over the years still won`t give up his Blackberry.

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[Gotye:]
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it`s an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I`ll admit that I was glad it was over

Sri Lanka turned down almost half of the recommendations made by UNHRC member states on improving human rights, but agreed to submit details of voluntary meausres the country is taking in the next two weeks.

Sri Lanka rejected, among other proposals, calls to enact a freedom of information act, ratify the Rome Statute that would bring the country under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, decriminalise homosexual relationships, accede to the optional protocal to the Torture Convention and bring to justice those who committed the crime of recruiting child soldiers.

Olinton Mervyn Bastiansz aka Wally Bastiansz is the god father of Sinhala Baila, who brought Kaffrigna to the fore. Baptised as ``Ogustus Martheneus Bastiansz``, named after his grand father Wilhelmus Martheneus, his close family and friends called him `Olie` or `Olinton`. Once he embarked on his musical career whislt serving in the Traffic Division of the Ceylon Police, he presented himself with the stage name `Wally Bastiansz`.

As a serving police officer, Wally played in the police band during the 1940s. It is said that he had been granted special permission to attend musical events by then prime minister Sir John Kotelawala. He was instrumental in providing road traffic presentations conducted by the trafic police at all major cities across the country.

By Lal Gunasekera


Will prostitution be legalised in Colombo with the setting up of a red light district within the city limits? Views to this effect was expressed by UNP MMC Nadeel Malagoda at the Monthly Council meeting of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) last Thursday (27).


MMC Malalgoda told The Island that it was only his personal view and not that of the UNP. He said that there were several cases of women and children being raped all over the country and the setting up of a red light district would help prevent sex crimes as the sex-starved could gratify their desires in the demarcated red light areas.

By Sarah Hawke

Another group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers has asked to be sent home, rather than risk Australia sending them to an offshore processing facility.

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says the group consists of 28 men who arrived both before and after the new processing arrangements for Nauru and Manus Island were announced in August.

He says the men have come from detention centres on Nauru, Christmas Island, as well as mainland facilities including Villawood and Northam.

ග ු ට ි ක ෑ ම ේ ජ ර ් ග ෙ න ් ක ම ි ට ු ව ප ් ‍ ර ශ ් න ක ර ය ි

න ෝ ම න ් ප ල ි හ ව ඩ න

ක ො ළ ඹ ජ ය ි ක ් ‌ හ ි ල ් ට න ් න ි ව ා ස ස ං ක ී ර ් ණ ය ේ ර ථ ග ා ල , අ ස ල ද ී ඇ ම ැ ත ි ප ු ත ු න ් ද ෙ ද ෙ න ක ු ව ි ස ි න ් ප හ ර ද ු න ් න ේ ය ෑ ය ි ක ි ය න ු ල බ න හ ම ු ද ා බ ු ද ් ධ ි අ ං ශ ය ේ ම ේ ජ ර ් ව ර ය ා ග ෙ න ් හ ම ු ද ා ත ් ‍ ර ි ප ු ද ් ග ල ක ම ි ට ු ව ප ් ‍ ර ශ ් න ක ර ග ෙ න ය ය ි .

MDMK leader Vaiko and around 800 of his supporters continued to stage a sit-in protest on the side of National Highway 69 in the Chhindwara District of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.

The protest began on Wednesday evening after Madhya Pradesh police prevented Vaiko`s convoy from proceeding towards Sanchi, where he planned to hold a black flag demonstration against the visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Repeated attempts by the MP administration to convince Vaiko and his supporters to return to Tamil Nadu have failed. On Thursday, Vaiko refused to speak to Chhindwara District Collector Mahesh Chandra Choudhary, who approached the MDMK chief with senior police officials. With Rajapaksa set to visit Sanchi for the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Buddhist university in Sanchi on Friday, it seems unlikely that Vaiko will be able to hold his intended demonstration. Vaiko has announced that he would hold a press conference at 11 am at Pandhurna, the place where his convoy was stopped.

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The US ambassador and consul to Libya were killed by local militia in an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libyan Deputy Interior Minister Wanis al-Sharif said. The US embassy in Libya has not yet commented on the report.

Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other consulate employees were reportedly killed on Tuesday during clashes between armed militia members and army soldiers, as a mob stormed the compound.

The ambassador was allegedly seriously injured by attack on his car, and may have died from suffocation due to a fire, the BBC reported. He and other embassy employees were attacked after they went to the consulate to try to evacuate the building, the AP reported.

When Tamil Nadu politicians raise the pitch against the Sri Lankan government`s perceived atrocities on the Tamils in that country, they invoke popular sentiment in Tamil Nadu, saying Tamils here are hurt and angry at the way their brethren across the Palk Straits are being treated.

But that sympathy is nowhere evident on an issue that truly hits the Sri Lankan Tamils where it matters their livelihoods. In fact, it is an issue on which Tamil Nadu actively works against the interests of fellow Tamils across the Palk Straits.

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lanka`s ruling party has defeated the country`s main ethnic Tamil party in a provincial election seen as a test of whether Tamils still want self-rule or are satisfied with government-led development programs in a region devastated by decades of civil war.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s United People`s Freedom Alliance won 14 seats in the Eastern Provincial Council, while the Tamil National Alliance secured 11, the Department of Elections said Sunday.

Earlier this week when Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa asked some Sri Lankan students not to play friendly football matches in the state and to pack off, she had some reasons to feel justified.

But now it is time that she cracked the whip on nationalist outfits who have turned vigilantes in the name of Tamil pride.

Although not without ramifications, Jayalalithaa`s act was a political statement primarily targeted at New Delhi for choosing to ignore her repeated demands on Sri Lanka. Incidentally, it was also a message to Sri Lanka that international relations cannot be at odds with a state`s sentiments. She stopped at that and didn`t say anything more.