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24/07/2019

Breaking News : Former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa returned to Srilanka after the successful heart surgery in Singapore.

23/07/2019

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is not among the list of names released by the US Government..

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is not among the list of names released by the US Government of those who have abandoned US citizenship during the first quarter of 2019 ending March 31.

The list appears on the Federal Register website as a notice dated May 13, 2019, by the internal revenue service. It states: “This listing contains the name of each individual losing United States citizenship (within the meaning of section 877(a) or 877A), whom the Secretary received information during the quarter ending March 31, 2019.”

In the meantime, former Chief Justice Asoka De Silva filing a declaration in the US District Court for the Central District of California states that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa filed papers at the US Embassy in Colombo to renounce his American citizenship on April 17, 2019. The list of persons who had abandoned US citizenship in the second quarter will be released shortly.

27/09/2017

BREAKING NEWS:
යාපනය පුංකුඩිතිව්හි ශිවලෝගනාදන් විද්‍යා දැරිය ඝාතනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වරුදකරුවන් වු, සුවිස් කුමාර් ඇතුළු චුදිතයින් 07 දෙනෙකුට යාපනය මහාධිකරණයේ ත්‍රීපුද්ගල විනිසුරු මඬුල්ල, මීට ටික වේලාවකට පෙර මරණ දඬුවම නියම කළා.

යාපනය මහාධිකරණ විනිසුරු මානිකවාසගර් ඉලංචෙලියන්, ත්‍රිකුණාමල මහාධිකරණ විනිසුරු අන්නලිංගම් ප්‍රේම්ශංකර් හා වව්නියාව මහාධිකරණ විනිසුරු බාලේන්ද්‍රන් ශෂිමහේන්ද්‍රන් යන ත්‍රිපුදගල මඩුල්ල ඒකමතික තින්දුවක් ලෙසින් එය ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කරනු ලැබුවා.

வித்தியா படுகொலை: குற்றவாளிகள் 7 பேருக்கு மரண தண்டனை

7 suspects connected to the Vidya r**e and murder case have been handed the death sentence by a three judge bench.

22/09/2017

India 'using chilli sprays, stun gr***des' to dissuade Rohingya influx

Officials said India has stepped up security along its eastern border with Bangladesh and use “chilli and stun gr***des” to block the entry of Rohingya fleeing from violence in Myanmar

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has stepped up security along its largely porous eastern border with Bangladesh and is using “chilli and stun gr***des” to block the entry of Rohingya Muslims fleeing from violence in their homeland of Myanmar, officials said on Friday.

Border forces in Hindu-majority India, which wants to deport around 40,000 Rohingya already living in the country, citing security risks, have been authorized to use “rude and crude” methods to stop any infiltration attempts.

“We don’t want to cause any serious injury or arrest them, but we won’t tolerate Rohingya on Indian soil,” said a senior official with the Border Security Force (BSF) in New Delhi.

“We’re using gr***des containing chilli spray to stop hundreds of Rohingyas trying to enter India ... the situation is tense,” added the official, who declined to be identified as he was not authorized to speak to media.

More than 420,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when a coordinated attack by Rohingya insurgents on Myanmar security forces triggered a counteroffensive, killing at least 400 people, mainly militants. The United Nations has called the assault a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.

Densely populated Bangladesh is struggling to shelter all the refugees desperate for space to set up shacks, sparking worries in India that the influx could spill into its territory.

R.P.S. Jaswal, a deputy inspector general of the BSF patrolling a large part of the border in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, said his troops were told to use both chilli gr***des and stun gr***des to push back the Rohingya.

A chilli gr***de makes use of a naturally-occurring compound in chilli powder to cause severe irritation and temporarily immobilize its target.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is growing increasingly hostile towards the Rohingya in India, with Home Minister Rajnath Singh calling on Thursday for their deportation as illegal migrants.

Seeking to get legal clearance for the deportation plan, the home ministry told the Supreme Court this week it would confidentially provide it with intelligence information showing Rohingya links with Pakistan-based militants.

Most of the peaceloving refugees had no link to criminal activity, two Rohingya men protesting against the deportation move told India’s top court on Friday.

An official of India’s federal investigations agency said it was seeking help from Muslim religious leaders to step up surveillance of the Rohingya.

Police have arrested a suspected al Qaeda member they believe was trying to recruit Rohingya in the country to fight security forces in Myanmar. More than 270 Rohingya have been in Indian jails since 2014.

“Our investigations have revealed that Al Qaeda wants to use India and Bangladesh as their base to start a religious war against Myanmar,” said New Delhi police official Pramod Singh Khuswah. “Clearly they are a threat to our security.”

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