Private bus operators on 9 routes on strike

Private bus operators on nine routes including Gampaha-Colombo, Kadawatha-Fort, Nittambuwa-Colombo are currently on strike following a permit issue, President of Lanka Private Bus Owners’ Association Gemunu Wijeratne said. ...

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Sexual assault in bus

  A man who had allegedly sexually harassed a Japanese woman while she was travelling in a bus near Union Place, Colombo 2 was remanded till September 12 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate today. The Japanese woman complaining to the Slave Island police, accused a person who stood beside her in the bus of touching her in an inappropriate manner. She had further told police that she was a resident of Kammachi in Japan and arrived in Sri Lanka for a short holiday tour. The suspect was...

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Sri Lanka to woo 2.5 million tourists by 2016

Sri Lanka on Monday set an ambitious target of attracting 2.5 million foreign holiday-makers in the next five years, as the island nation emerges from decades of war.“We had 650,000 tourists last year, but this year we crossed the 500,000 mark in the first eight months alone,” tourism chief Nalaka Godahewa said. “We have set a target of attracting 2.5 million tourists by 2016.”Sri Lanka Tourism, the main regulatory authority for the tourism sector, said it will streamline approvals and seek...

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Lankans stealing abandoned cars in Dubai

Six men — four Sri Lankans and two Syrians — have been accused of forming a gang that specialised in stealing cars that had been abandoned by their owners on the streets of Dubai for months.Prosecutors said the six men would search for deserted cars that had Dubai Municipality warning notices on their windshields.Then they would wash the cars before breaking the locks open, cutting new keys and driving off, reported Gulf News.When the defendants appeared before the Dubai Court of First...

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President orders strict action against child rapists

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed to take the strictest actions against the perpetrators involved in the raping of a 10-year-old girl at an examination center in Matara, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena told Parliament today.Media revealed recently that an alleged air force deserter, two examination officers had sexually molested a 10-year-old school girl at Thelijjawila, Matara while the victim had visited the school with her mother for cleaning duties.The examination officers...

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Car lock – do it from the door control!!

  How to Lock Your Car and Why ? I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times .. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation. I quickly chucked the errand I...

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