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With assistance from Indian government, Sri Lanka inaugurates luxury train connecting Colombo from Jaffna

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India and Sri Lanka crossed another significant landmark in bilateral ties as the island country launched a luxury train service with the help of a Line of Credit offered by India. The luxury train service connects the country’s Tamil-dominated Jaffna district to the capital city, Colombo.

The intercity rail service with all facilities was launched on Sunday, where India provided AC Diesel Multiple Units (AC DMUs) under the loan facility. The luxury train will travel from Colombo’s Mount Lavinia suburb to Jaffna’s Kankesanthurai port suburb in the north, covering a distance of approximately 386 km.

“Powering the railway infrastructure forward!! The train service launched today to the Northern Province highlights 2 key pillars of India’s development partnership with Sri Lanka – infrastructure development and country-wide focus,” Indian High Commission said on Twitter. Sri Lanka’s Minister of Transport Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who undertook the inaugural ride, was welcomed by India’s Deputy High Commissioner Vinod K Jacob at the Colombo Fort Station during the inaugural ceremony.

“Hon’ble Minister @pavithrawannia1 inaugurated the AC Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) supplied by @RITESLimited under an Indian credit line & launched the train service from Mt.Lavinia to KKS. She undertook the inaugural ride & was welcomed at the #Colombo #Fort Station by Deputy High Commissioner,” the Indian High Commission said in a tweet.

“This train service will facilitate people-to-people exchange and will lay emphasis on mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries,” Jacob said. The train service will criss-cross the island nation, connecting Colombo with Kankesanthurai on the northern tip of the Jaffna Peninsula, which has a Tamil-majority population.

Wanniarachchi thanked the Indian government for its continued support to Sri Lanka in tackling the ongoing pandemic. “The supply of air-conditioned diesel multiple units is just one of the many railway projects being undertaken by India in Sri Lanka,” read an official statement. The statement further read, “There are also other ongoing projects, which include the supply of passenger coaches under an Indian Line of Credit.”

“India’s total development portfolio in Sri Lanka is over USD 3.5 billion, of which around USD 570 million are purely grant projects,” the Indian High Commission said in a statement. “Modernisation of railways and creation of new railway infrastructure has been important sectors of focus under the Indian Government’s development portfolio in Sri Lanka, in line with the priority of the government and people of Sri Lanka,” the statement added.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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