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A felicitation ceremony to mark the South Asian Games Taekwondo achievements was held at the Grand Monarch Hotel with the participation of Santhush Woonjin JEONG, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea as the guest of honour.
Minister of Youth and Sports, Namal Rajapaksa, as the chief guest, felicitated the Taekwondo medalists. The event was organized under the patronage of Kanchana Jayaratne, President of Sri Lanka Taekwondo Federation.
In his welcome address, Jayaratne said Korea is the mother country of Taekwondo, and the support extended by World Tekwondo and Kukkiwon World Taekwondo Headquarters to promote Taekwondo in Sri Lanka has been a pillar behind the success of the national team at the South Asian Games in 2019.
by Norman Palihawadana
The CID has begun interrogating five persons linked to the three importers of contaminated coconut oil in a bid to get to the bottom of what is suspected to be a big time racket, which had continued for a considerable period of time.
Police said the phone records of the suspects will be checked to ascertain whether any others were also involved in the racket to inject cheap imported coconut oil with a high concentration of carcinogenic aflatoxins into the market.
Some Customs officers are also expected to be questioned by the CID in this connection.
Police have already taken into custody three bowsers suspected of transporting stocks of the contaminated coconut oil. Two were taken into police custody at Dankotuwa earlier in the week, while another was found parked at a private facility near the Economic Centre at Dambulla.
By Ifham Nizam
A critically endangered new species of geckos (Cnemaspis lokugei) was discovered from Haputale and Idalgashinna areas in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. This was the first to be recorded so far for 2021.
The newly discovered species was named in honor of Ajith Nethkelum Lokuge, a pioneer ecologist, analogue forestry specialist and a senior member of Young Zoologists’ Association (YZA) of Sri Lanka, for his significant contribution towards environmental conservation and research in Sri Lanka.
“With the new find, the number of Cnemaspis species has increased to 38”, says lead scientist Suranjan Karunarathna of the Nature Explorations and Education Team.
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