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Tarrested a man who on clothes lines. St. Johns “He carries a file containing a had been stealing women’s Following his arrest the (011) 243 Sri Lanka 7744 underwear from clothes man had led the police to a Red Cross (0 photograph of a young woman claim- Mob 11) 555 5505 lines in the area. place where he had kept ile (077) 299 2312 ing that she is his sister and is armed with letters issued to The police said that they the stolen undergarments. Contac him by prominent and influential persons including med- had received several com- The police say the sus- t Norman ical experts, claiming that the person in the photograph was plaints from residents in pect would be produced Tel : 2497500/07184426 the area about the presence before the Homagama Fax: 2497543 66 known to them and requesting the public to help since she of the man who enters the Magistrate once the inter- needs urgent medical treatment overseas,” an officer said. gardens of houses and rogation is complete. Email: ne [email protected] But they proved to be bogus documents and when contact- ed, persons whose names were in the letters denied issuing the letters in question. Later the man confessed that the woman in the photo- cting on a complaint, the Grandpass police on Friday arrested a youth who Police SI clobbers Sergeant graph was his former wife and they are now divorced. Ais alleged to have stolen a gold necklace When the police visited the woman at her residence, she belonging to his sister, pawned it and senior police officer in division. bourhood. When the sergeant vis- admitted that she had been married to the suspect and said obtained Rs 25,000. Anuradhapura has initiated Investigations revealed that the ited the SI’s house they had had an The suspect had spent a lot of money on Aan inquiry into a fight sergeant frequently visited the res- argument and the latter had that she is not suffering from any serious ailment. clothes and friends, investigations revealed, which erupted between a sub idence of the sub inspector and assaulted the former causing The suspect was produced before the Kandy Magistrate the police said. inspector and a sergeant attached had developed an illicit relation- injuries. and remanded till September 28. to two police stations in the same ship with a woman in the neigh- Scientists discover 12 new frog in September 17, 2011: NEW DELHI — Years of Many of the newly found frogs in India are rare and whose croak sounds more like a cat’s call, the jog night combing tropical mountain forests, shining flashlights are living in just a single area, so they will need rigor- frog, unique in that both the males and females watch under rocks and listening for croaks in the night have ous habitat protection, Biju told The Associated Press over the eggs, and the Wayanad night frog, which grows paid off for a team of Indian scientists which has dis- on Saturday.“Unfortunately in India, conservation has to about the size of a baseball or cricket ball. “It’s covered 12 new frog species plus three others thought to basically focused on the two most charismatic animals almost like a monster in the forest floor, a huge animal have been extinct. — the elephant and the tiger. For there is for a frog, leaping from one rock to another,” Biju said. It’s a discovery the team hopes will bring attention to little interest, little funding, and frog research is not Three other species were rediscovered, including the India’s amphibians and their role in gauging the health easy.” Coorg night frog described 91 years ago, after scientists of the environment. Night frogs are extremely hard to find, coming out “had completely ignored these animals, thinking they Worldwide, 32 percent of the world’s known amphib- only at dark and during the monsoon season, living were lost.” ian species are threatened with , largely either in fast-flowing streams or on moist forest ground. The discoveries — published in the latest issue of because of habitat loss or pollution, according to the Biju said he and his student researchers had to sit in international taxonomy journal Zootaxa — bring the group Global Conservation. dark, damp forests listening for frog sounds and shining known number of frogs in India to 336. Biju estimated “Frogs are extremely important indicators not just flashlights under rocks and across riverbeds. They con- this was only around half of what is in the wild, and of climate change, but also pollutants in the environ- firmed the new species by description as well as genet- said none of India’s amphibians are yet being studied ment,” said the project’s lead scientist, GEMBA: A jog night frog sits in the forests of the ics. for biological compounds that could be of further use in Sathyabhama Das Biju of the University of Delhi. in Karnataka, India. The 12 new species include the meowing night frog, science.