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Former brigadier Chandana Priyantha was today sentenced to death by Gampaha High Court Judge Piyaseeli Mathurata after he was found guilty of having killed his wife Thejangani Rupasinghe, a mother of two children, in 2007 at Makola North in Sapugaskanda.
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Vehicular movement will be restricted between 4.30 p.m. and 5.00 p.m. today along the road leading to Galle Face from the Sri Jayewardenepura Parliament via the Polduwa, Ayurveda Junction, D.S. Junction, Nelum Pokuna, Kollupitiya Junction and Galle Road under the special traffic arrangements for the Indian Premier’s visit, Police said.
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While claiming that the human rights situation in Sri Lanka continued to be of concern in 2014, with little overall improvement, the UK said that it remained concerned over a number of issues, including restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly, restrictions faced by minority Tamils in formerly conflict-affected areas in the north and east.
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Claiming that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of India conspired with “Western agencies” CIA and MI-6 to rally the opposition led by President Maithripala Sirisena against his presidency, Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he does not, however, believe Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the government was responsible.
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The Supreme Court today issued notices on UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Secretary General Kabeer Hashim and other respondents through the petitioner sequent to a petition filed by former UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake against his expulsion from the party.
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Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today refused the Chairman H.N. Yapa Senadipathi of Avant Guarde Maritime Service (Pvt.) Ltd to go to Nigeria for business as the CID objected asserting that if the petitioner travelled to Nigeria it would hold back the on-going investigations.
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Nearly 32 out of the 57 members in the UPFA-controlled Central Provincial Council today handed over affidavits to Governor Surangani Ellawala requesting that Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake be removed and UPFA councillor Thilina Bandara Tennakoon to the post.
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Six Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) monks, who were alleged to have stormed Minister Rishard Bathiudeen’s office during the previous government, were ordered to be released on a surety bail of Rs.100, 000 each by Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage today.
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Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera, who heads the National Movement for Social Justice and the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) which were instrumental in the setting up of this Government yesterday stressed the need to put in place the promised electoral reforms before declaring a general election.