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Di-P02-03-08 2 Tuesday 3rd August, 2010 The Island Home News Page Two Are you a lucky winner? SATURDAY FORTUNE VASANA SUPIRI VASANA JAYODA MAHAJANA SAMPATHA DEVELOPMENT FORTUNE JATHIKA SAMPATHA JAYAVIRU Date 26-06-2010 Draw No: 1212 Draw No: 40 GOVI SETHA SAMPATHA SAMPATHA Date:28-06-2010 Date: 30-07-2010 Date: 21-07-2010 Draw No.2133 Date 30-07-2010 Date 21-07-2010 Date:19-07-2010 Date: 29-07-2010 Date: 24-07-2010 Draw No:659 Draw No. 2272 Draw No. 520 Bonus No 66 Zodiac Symbol- Leo Lucky No. 02 Draw No. 764 Draw No. 828 Draw No. 559 Winning Nos: Winning No: Winning Nos : Super No. 23 Winning No: Winning Nos: Winning Nos: Z- 16 - 50 - 61- 70 Bonus No. 12 K-7-4-2-4-5-0 11-18-51-53 R- 4- 0 -5- 9 - 9 N-08-39-58-66 45-49-54- 55 O- 17- 43- 60- 69 M-09-10-33-59 G - 02-18-31-33 Lankan Tamils marry in India Protest against SB at Peradeniya: Tamil refugees who are Young people see mar- unable to return to Sri riage in Indian churches as Lanka despite the end of the a solution to their problems, conflict are going to India he continued. Anticipatory bail application rejected, for their weddings. Nathan, who was accepted as a refugee in the United Kingdom, had to marry his Sri police ordered to arrest protesters Lankan fiancé in India as she was unable to obtain a visa to the UK. BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE filed through Students Dissanayake was The Chief Magistrate, reject- “If my son Nathan Attorney-at-law present at the uni- ing the anticipatory bail applica- came to Sri Lanka to KANDY - Kandy Chief Saman should not versity to attend an tion, said that society expected marry, he might be in Magistrate Lalith Ekanayaka Thanthrige by opening ceremony. students to conduct themselves more trouble,” said his “behave in a manner that 59-year-old mother, rejected an anticipatory bail four under- The Magistrate properly. application filed by four under- gradutes alleged- society detested. The ordered the Students should not behave in Parimalam Jeyaratman. All three of her chil- graduates of the University of ly involved in a Society did not expect “ Peradeniya police a manner that society detested. Peradeniya yesterday (02) on the protest by a group to apprehend all The Society did not expect stu- dren, who became students to behave like refugees in Europe or basis that the application did not of students on those involved in dents to behave like animals, the North America, have animals. – Chief A wedding for Sri Lankan Tamils con- conform to the legal require- July 12 when the incident and Magistrate noted. married in Indian ments. Higher Eduction Magistrate. produce them in Peradeniya police are con- churches, she said, ducted at an Indian church. The bail application had been Minister S. B. Court. ducting investigations. expressing her gratitude The Indian church is to Indian priests. studying the phenomenon, Over the last 30 years, said Father Charles Kumar, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil couples, both Hindu chancellor of Madras- and Christian, have married Mylapore archdiocese in TNA expels in India, at churches and southern India. shrines in southern Indian “A priest visited Jaffna member cities. two weeks ago to study the The “ugly” war “had situation,” he said. torn Tamil social fabric and “We offer a guide on how The Tamil National Alliance destroyed family units,” to legally marry in India to (TNA) has written to Trincomalee said Father S. Ainsley avoid long delays. But we Urban Council Chairman and TNA Roshan, a Sri Lankan Tamil insist on documents for the member Shanmugaraja Gowri priest now studying at good of the couple,” he said. Muhunthan informing him of his Loyola College in Chennai, “What God has joined southern India. expulsion from the party. together, no human being “Families lost communi- Muhunthan told provincial media must separate,” he conclud- cation with each other,” said men at a meeting that he had received the former secretary to the ed, citing the Gospel accord- the letter and added that he had filed bishop of Jaffna in Sri ing to Mark. legal action against the move. Lanka. (cathnewsindia) The letter was sent to the Trincomalee Urban Council Chairman by TNA General Secretary Mavai Senathirajah. Muhunthan was removed from the Hemantha hosts ESCAP party for contesting the last elections under the All Ceylon Tamil Congress heads meeting, wins plaudits after being refused a nomination by the TNA. Muhunthan was appointed Land and Lands Development Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon inspects a level used by surveyors of The Heads of Mission, rep- the raid conducted by the as the Trincomalee Urban Council yore during an exhibition held on the sidelines of the 210th anniversary celebrations of the Department of resenting the ESCAP Italian police authorities to Chairman in 2006 after contesting on Survey at the Department auditorium at Narahenpita yesterday. Deputy Minister Siripala Gamlath, Secretary (Economic and Social arrest the LTTE suspects in the TNA ticket. to the Ministry T. Ashoka Peiris, Surveyor General Mahesh Fernando and other guests were present at the Commissions for Asia and the Italy in June 2008, on applica- occasion. Pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja. Pacific) region, met on July 15, tion made by him. “30 LTTE 2010 at the Westin Excelsior suspects were arrested Hotel in Rome, for lunch host- throughout the country, and ed by Sri Lanka’s Ambassador are awaiting prosecution. This Demanding that those responsible for student’s death be arrested to Italy Hemantha Warnakulasuriya. Ambassador Warnakulasuriya Ruhunu undergrads to hold protest invited Ambassador Attilio Massimo march at Matara town Lannucci, Director General of the BY DASUN EDIRISINGHE Island that they were also demand- violence against university stu- result of assault by a fellow student Asia, Oceania, ing the release of the eight students dents. The petition would include belonging to another student fac- Pacific and Undergraduates of the Ruhuna who were in police custody, 50,000 signatures of undergradu- tion. Police were called in on June Antarctica University will hold a protest march “We will gather at the Ruhuna ates, he said. 18 following clashes between two Division of the from the University to the Matara University’s main block in Ruhuna University student student factions. Italian Ministry of town today to force the government Wellamadama, where we are sched- Susantha Bandara died at the When contacted by The Island, Foreign Affairs, to to arrest the person or persons uled to commence the march to the Badulla General Hospital on July 23. Chairman of the University Grants be the chief guest. responsible for the death of third- Matara town,” Premaratne said. The IUSF claimed he died following Commission Prof. Gamini Afghanistan’s year student, Susantha Bandara. He said that they had begun a an assault by the police on the cam- Samaranayake said there were two Ambassador and Ambassador Hemantha Warnakulasuriya The Convener of the Inter petition campaign called pus on June 18. inquiries in progress; one was being Dean of the presenting a gift specially brought in from University Students Federation ‘Sahodarathwaye Salakuna’ However, the police claimed that handled by the Police and the other ESCAP meetings Sri Lanka to Director General of the Asia, Prof. Musa M. (IUSF), Udul Premaratne told The demanding that government stop Susantha Bandara had died as a was a Magisterial inquiry. Oceania, Pacific and Antarctica Division of Maroofi, said that the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Attilio the initiative Massimo Lannucci. taken by one of the most popular Ambassadors in Italy, operation prevented the Govt. allocates Rs. 300mn Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, ciphering of valuable foreign in inviting the Director exchange to the Tamil Tigers General of the Asia & Oceania for the procurement of arms Division of the Italian Foreign and ammunition. Within one for renovation of lakes in Ministry, had enlarged the and a half years, the scope of the ESCAP luncheon Government of Sri Lanka was meetings and has brought in able to defeat the LTTE, and Batticaloa district new light to these monthly every moment the Sri Lankan meetings. Government faced a difficult The Irrigation and launch drinking water He said “Therefore, we situation, the Italian Water Resources projects too in the thank profusely Ambassador Government had always Warnakulasuriya for the role helped us,” Ambassador Management Ministry District,” Minister de played in inviting Ambassador Warnakulasuriya said. He allocated 300 million Silva said. Lannucci.” remembered with gratitude rupees to renovate the He said that he has Ambassador Lannucci stat- the efforts of the Italian lakes in the Batticaloa instructed the Regional ed that he “greatly appreciated Government to have the GSP+ District, following Irrigation Director to list the invitation extended by benefits renewed to Sri Lanka, Minister Nimal Siripala the lakes and tanks Ambassador and its support at the Human Warnakulasuriya, one of the Rights Council in Geneva. He de Silva’s recent visit to which were neglected most popular Ambassadors in further stated that “the bonds the district. during last 30 years. Rome”. Thereafter, he read a between our two countries As the first step, the Deputy Minister of speech on the ESCAP Region have been strengthened, and Ministry will provide 35 Resettlement, to the Ambassadors present at Sri Lanka has found that Italy million rupees for reno- Vinayagamoorthi the luncheon meeting. is its true friend. vation of Punani Amuna Muralidharan, Eastern Ambassador Warnakulasuriya in Korale Pattu, Province Chief Minister said that “only a few Batticaloa. About 10,000 Sivanesathurai days ago, he had DEATH The Bank of Ceylon conducted a series of paddy fields could be cul- Chandrakanthan, seen on TV the religious ceremonies to celebrate its 71st tivated by this Amuna.
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