This person known to be an underworld character has made it a practice to forcibly collect the earth dug up for laying water mains and carrying it away loaded in a tipper truck.
The man has stopped this practice soon after the change of the 52-day regime.
A member of the private staff of a fair Diyawanna politico from a gem-rich district, this goon had been carrying away the dug-up earth after threatening the contractor who was handling the water mains-laying job.
The contractor’s complaints to the higher authorities has fallen on deaf ears. However, the man stopped collecting the earth soon after the fall of the Pohottuwa regime, they say.
Cinnamon Grand Colombo on Friday was adjudged the ‘Best 5-Star Hotel’ in the city along…
Sri Lanka is preparing to mark a major milestone in its tourism recovery, with the…
The Government has decided to provide Rs. 100,000 per hectare for farmers whose crops were…
Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004…
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his Christmas Day message, has urged the nation to transcend…
Veteran Sri Lankan singer Priya Suriyasena has passed away at the age of 80.