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BY NORMAN PALIHAWADANA stances. Deputy Minister Mervyn Silva yes- The SLFPer was speaking at a public terday disapproved the way UNP leader meeting at Idigolla, Gampaha. MP Silva was harassed by emphasized the need to take tangible a section of the party. measures to protect the people. Gampaha District SLFP strongman MP lashed out at the JVP for causing MP Silva said that had he been a UNPer chaos in the country. According to him, he would have acted swiftly and deci- the JVP was responsible for propagat- sively. MP Silva said that he wouldn’t ing the‘greased yaka’ story at the post- have allowed so-called Reformists to war stability, particularly in the challenge the leader under any circum- Eastern province.

Unregistered foreign employment agent given suspended sentence UNP MP addresses his supporters outside Viharamahadevi park on Wednesday.The Reformist accused the The owner of an unregistered for- (SLBFE) said that sleuths from their government of having come to the rescue of beleaguered UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe. (Pic Nishan S. Priyantha). eign employment agency in Aranayake Investigative Unit have been directed to was fined Rs. 120,000 and a six month intensify their raids on unlicensed jail sentence suspended for 10 years by employment agencies throughout the the Mawanella Magistrate Srinath country. YMBA Wijesekara on Tuesday (16). He said that many of these illegal Gratiaen Trust, ICES The suspect Mohamed Junaideen institutions accept large sums of money Buddhist Mohamed Riyaz was taken into custody from prospective job seekers promising on March 10 last year (2010). them employment in Middle-East coun- Panel A spokesman for the tries, but are taken for a ride by these Discussion to launch two Bureau of Foreign Employment unscrupulous persons. (L.G.) The next Buddhist Public Panel discussion of translated books the YMBA will be held on August 21 at 10.00 The Three Wheeler Press, the publication Wickramagamage titled ‘Metta’, and the Tamil a.m. at its Borella complex arm of The Gratiaen Trust, founded by publication ‘Sadangu’, by S. Ponnuthurai trans- on “Improving the practice Michael Ondaatje, was set up to enable some lated by Chelva Kanaganayakam titled ‘Ritual’ of Meditation”. The Gratiaen prize winning manuscripts to be pub- on Friday, August 19 at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Panellists are Prof. Raja de lished and also to publish translations of major Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8 at 5.30 p.m. Alwis and Asoka Mahinda writings in Sinhala and Tamil into English. Speakers at this ceremony will be Prof. Jayasinghe, former Trade The Gratiaen Trust, in association with the Chelva Kanaganayakam (by video), K. S. Commissioner, Bombay International Centre for Ethnic Studies, will Sivakumaran and Prof. Carmen with Rajah Kuruppu as launch two translated books, the Sinhala book Wickramagamage. Moderator Ms. Moderator. All are wel- ‘Podu Purushaya’, by Sunethra Madhubhashini Ratnayake. come. Rajakarunanayake translated by Carmen No Price increase for cement Minister of Cooperatives and increase the price of a 50 kg bag of Cement and Ultratec who requested the Internal Trade cement by Rs. 35. price to be upped to Rs. 785. The con- turned down the requests made by A Ministry source said that the trolled price remains at Rs. 750. (LG) A seminar was organized by the Weliveriya Lions Club for students preparing to three local cement companies to three companies were Lafarge, Tokyo sit the grade five scholarship examination at the Weliveriya Madduma Bandara Kanista Vidyalaya recently. Principal of Weliveriya Christ The King College, Rev. Lanka Deshapriya, lights the oil lamp before the inauguration of the seminar.306- B 02 Lions District Governor Jayantha Gunawardhana and Lions Club President Inaugural seminar Ivon Perera were present. (Pic by Delgoda – W.D. Vithana) for journalists on Devanathan Memorial Lecture

The Devanathan Memorial Lecture Gold Medal at the All India Industrial Aug. 19 will be delivered by Dr. Samson Exhibition for invention of an air Hettiarachchi on Friday September 9, depolarized cell and a plaque from the The Government Management Training 2011 at 4 p.m. at the Institute of University of Pennsylvania for his Information Department has Institute at Pelgahatenne, in Chemistry (Ceylon), Adamantane contribution to electrochemistry. made arrangements to hold a Passara. The inaugural func- House, 341/22, Kotte Road. He has published about 80 series of seminars on tion of this seminar will be Dr. Devanathan was a staff member research papers, majority of which District basis to enlighten attended by Minister of at the University of Ceylon in the were in prestigious international the provincial journalists on Irrigation and Water early sixties and later worked at sever- Journals. For his authoritative contri- the development activities Management Nimal Siripala al institutions as; Associate Director butions to the Physical Chemistry of carried out by the de Silva, the Minister of of, Research at the University of Electrified Interfaces, Dr. Devanathan Government in each district. Foreign Employment and Pennsylvania, Assistant Director at was awarded the D.Sc. (cum laude) by The first of the series of Welfare , and Central Electrochemical Research the University of London in 1964. these seminars will be held Chief Minister Institute in Karaikudy in India. He in Badulla on the l9th of this Shasheendra . also worked as the Head of Physical month. The topic of the semi- Badulla District Secretary Chemistry Section of CISIR (now ITI), A doctor examines a student at a Free Diabetic Medical Clinic nar will be ‘The Role of the Rohana Keerthi Dissanayake, Commonwealth Visiting Professor at Japanese organized by the Fadna Food and Nature Company conducted Provincial Journalist in the Director General of University of Southampton and finally at the Kaduboda Sri Vivekarama Viharaya recently (Pic by District Development’. Government Information as Director, Tea Research Institute, Delgoda – W.D. Vithana) Around 75 print and elec- Professor Ariyaratne Talawakelle. cultural tronic media journalists of Athugala and Director He was a researcher of repute in the Badulla District are General of Jana Sabha, Applied Science and Industry. He had expected to participate in the Senior Lecturer Dhamma over 25 patents in Sri Lanka, India and exhibition seminar. Dissanayake are due to the U.K. He won all -India Invention The Japanese Cultural Exhibition, The day-long seminar will address the seminar. Promotion Award for his work on Lecture on Portuguese organized by the Embassy of Japan and be held at the Uva alkaline MnO2 for high capacity, a the Japanese Language Teacher’s Association of Sri Lanka, and will held Linguistic Imprints today on Saturday Aug. 20 and Sunday, 21 at the Harold Peiris Gallery, Lionel Wendt, Guilford Crescent, Colombo 07. Dr. Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya is a member The exhibition this year will feature Jayasuriya, Senior Fellow at of the International Ikebana floral arrangements, bonsai the institute of Scientific Committee for the plants, origami and calligraphy, as well Commonwealth Studies, UNESCO Slave Route Project. as demonstrations of Ikebana floral art, University of London will She is the co-founder of bonsai planting, origami folding, the deliver a lecture on TADIA (The African art of Japanese calligraphy and “Persisting Portuguese lin- Diaspora in Asia) and an Kimono dressing. The exhibition will guistic Imprints in India and elected Fellow of the Royal also feature multimedia presentations Sri Lanka” today (August 18) Asiatic Society (Great Britain on Japan. at 5.30 p.m. at the ICES and Ireland). She has a PhD Demonstrations Auditorium, 2, Kynsey in Linguistics. 20th Saturday & 21st Sunday Terrace, Colombo 8. Origami – 1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Ikebana -2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Bonsai- 4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. 21st Sunday Calligraphy – 10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Admission to the exhibition and Cbo. YMBA Buddhist Panel demonstrations are free of charge to the general public on Saturday 20th discussion on Aug. 20 from 12.00 noon to 6.00 p.m. and on Sunday 21st from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. The next Buddhist Public Panelists are Prof. Raja de The exhibition is designed to display Panel discussion of the Alwis and Asok Mahinda Japan’s culture and lifestyle as well as Colombo YMBA will be held on Jayasinghe, former Trade promote tourism to Japan and thereby Sunday August 21 at 10 00 a m Commissioner Bombay with