Suspicion points out to some irrelevant activities taking place at the office of the Telecommunications Commission at Elvitigala Mawatha in Narahenpita and at Longden Place in Colombo 7 which has been turned into a cyber establishment over the past one month.

Five persons are reported by the India media to have been arrested over the kidnap and rape of a Japanese female student.

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshappriya has cautioned all candidates in the fray for the January 8 Presidential election to refrain from campaigning though text messages via mobile phones.

The father of the boy who was struck down by a vehicle at Kalapaluwawa in Rajagiriya on December 29 said that his son was the victim of a Defender Jeep that accompanied the convoy of Indian film star Salman Khan.

Governor of the Northern Province Major General GA Chandrasiri is said to have attended the election rally of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Vanuniya on Friday (January 2) in one of the biggest cases of the government using State officials for election work which is against the Election Law.