Six people had applied for the post of hangman, which fell vacant after the predecessor was promoted recently, Prisons Reforms Minister Chandrasiri Gajadeera said yesterday.
He told the Daily Mirror that some who had applied for the post even asked for a special allowance for each judicial execution to be carried out by them if they were recruited.
Though capital punishment is in place, the prisons authorities have not carried out a judicial execution since 1977.
Yet, the Minister said his Ministry should maintain the cadre of the prison service, and therefore, this post would be filled.
“It does not mean that we will carry out a judicial execution again. It’s a matter of filling vacancies. We have to also re-designate the post of hangman. In Sinhala, we call him Alugosuwa but it is not appropriate now,” he said.
There are about 357 people on death row, and some of them have been there for more than 15 years. from dailymirror.lk
As at Mt Everest in 1953, and in 1987 at Eden Park, New Zealand is back on top of the world, with the All Blacks beating France in the Rugby World Cup final in Auckland tonight.
After a nail-biting 80 minute game in which the French challenged the All Blacks at every opportunity, New Zealand’s 8-7 victory was hard fought.
Moments from now, when battered captain Richie McCaw lifts the Webb Ellis Cup aloft, he will also lift off the weight of 20 miserable years of dashed hopes and expectations.
More than 60,000 at Eden Park celebrated as New Zealand regained the Holy Grail of rugby, last claimed 8892 days ago.
It was a night for celebration as all the pain, all the angst, all the national soul searching of the intervening years poured out into a black-clad celebration as the All Blacks swept aside France, as they had in 1987.
It was a night for revenge, for the settling of scores with a side that had bundled New Zealand out of the Cup in 1999, then again in the 2007 quarterfinals, one of the darkest days in the history of the treasured black jersey.
All Blacks Aaron Cruden, Israel Dagg, Owen Franks, Sam Whitelock and Zac Guildford were not born when New Zealand last won the Cup, and reserve Victor Vito was just three months old.
For McCaw, it was the ultimate prize at the end of a tournament in which he dragged his aching body through ruck after ruck, tackle after tackle, to finally lay to rest the misery of the quarterfinal loss in Cardiff four years ago.
10.23am(monday)- MP Duminda Silva is slowly recovering. He has been breathing without the support of a ventilator since this morning, Hospital sources
7.00pm (sunday)- MP Duminda Silva continues to be on a life support system at the Sri Jayawardenepura Hospital. One bullet was removed and the other is yet to be removed as it had penetrated deep into his skull.
09:15pm – Duminda Silva has been taken out of the operating theatre at 9pm and is now in ICU. He will be monitored for 48 hours, hospital sources say.
07:44pm - The party office and a luxury vehicle belonging to UPFA MP Duminda Silva were put to the torch by a mob at Kollonawa a short while ago, police said. Meanwhile tension was running high in the Kollonawa area as additional soldiers and commandos from the elite Special Task Force (STF) positioned in the area while a dusk to dawn police curfew has been imposed in the region.
04:32pm - Former MP Bharatha Laxman Premachandra has been killed following a shooting incident, while MP Duminda Silva was admitted to the ICU. 10 others were also injured.
Samsung countered this week’s iPhone 4S announcement by proclaiming that its Android-based Galaxy S II is superior to the Apple device in many ways, especially with a bigger screen size.
Just hours after Apple unveiled the new iPhone on Tuesday, Samsung, the largest supplier of smartphones in the U.S., sent reporters a chart comparing the features of Samsung Galaxy S II and the iPhone 4S.
The chart was accompanied by a note pointing out a distinction not picked up by many reviewers: that the AT&T version of the Galaxy S II with its 4.3-in. touchscreen is 42% larger than the iPhone 4S model’s 3.5-in. diagonal touchscreen.
Also, Samsung’s 4.5-in. Galaxy S II screen covers 58% more screen area than the iPhone 4S screen, Samsung noted in its email.
Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger ft. Christina Aguilera
“Moves Like Jagger” is a song by American band Maroon 5 featuring American pop singer Christina Aguilera. It was released for digital download on June 21, 2011 in conjunction with a live performance of the song on The Voice the same day. “Moves Like Jagger” was written by Adam Levine, Benjamin Levin, Ammar Malik and Shellback, and was produced by Shellback and Benny Blanco. It was later included on a re-release of the band’s third studio album, Hands All Over (2011).
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara has been named ODI Player of the Year 2011 and the second-ever recipient of the LG People’s Choice Award at the LG ICC Awards in London.
During the performance period, he played 25 ODIs and compiled 1,049 runs at an average of 55.21, including one century and seven half-centuries. As wicketkeeper, he also took 36 victims comprising 26 catches and 10 stumpings. Despite that busy workload, he still managed to lead his country to the ICC Cricket World Cup final in Mumbai where they lost narrowly to home team India.
The independent voting academy of 25 highly credentialed cricket experts put Sangakkara first, ahead of such talented and in-form players as Australia’s Shane Watson, Gautam Gambhir of India and South Africa’s Hashim Amla.
Sametime, Kumar Sangakkara has become the second-ever recipient of the LG People’s Choice Award.
Sangakkara was voted to the award by the general public and beat off strong competition for the award from South Africa’s Hashim Amla, England’s Jonathan Trott, West Indies’ Chris Gayle and India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Sangakkara was unable to collect the awards in person due to current playing commitments in the Sri Lanka Test series against Australia in Colombo.
The water level of the Kotmale reservoir is now receding fast and at an alarming rate owing to the present drought. The ruins of an ancient temple that was submerged when the reservoir was made during the accelerated Mahaweli project, have now surfaced.
It has been revealed by Historians that these ruins are of the Kadadora temple’s viharaya. However it is reported that the top part of a Buddha statue also had emerged from the reservoir. This Buddha statue had contained some cavities which may have been the work of unscrupulous elements.
United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Colombo mayoral candidate Milinda Moragoda yesterday launched his policy platform entitled ‘Making Colombo a Centre of Excellence’ that promised to restore efficiency, transparency and accountability at the Colombo Municipal Council and to restore the stature of the city and dignity of its citizens.
Mayoral candidate Milinda Moragoda at the press conference held at the Mahaweli Centre auditorium said that as an initial step a 12-point 100 day programme ” A new city and a new life in Colombo in 100 days” will pave way for making Colombo a centre of excellence.
He called the policy platform an evolving task and an incomplete document which is only the starting point. He invited the public for input of ideas, comments and suggestions via telephone and social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook.
It was founded byS.W.R.D Bandaranaike in 1951 and, since then, has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri Lankan political arena. It first came to power in 1956 and since then has been the predominant party in government on a number of occasions. Sri Lanka had the world’s first woman prime minister under a SLFP regime.
he Sri Lanka Freedom Party is currently a part of the UPFA (United People’s Freedom Alliance) which is the current ruling party of Sri Lanka.
Prime minister D.M. Jayaratne and other senior members of the SLFP are attending today’s celebration. A felicitation of artistes to coincide with the anniversary will take place at the BMICH on September 04.
Update – No complaints have been made regarding the hacking of the DNS servers of many international company websites by the Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous while no serious effects have yet to be felt following the breach, the Computer Emergency and Readiness Team (CERT) stated.
The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days.
Posting the news and records of its exploits on Pastebin, the group is taking credit for launching “DNS Cache Snoop Poisoning” attacks against its victims.
DNS cache snooping is the process whereby hackers can query a DNS server to find out which domain names are being resolved into IP addresses.
Six people had applied for the post of hangman, which fell vacant after the predecessor was promoted recently, Prisons Reforms Minister Chandrasiri Gajadeera said yesterday.
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