Lawyers appearing on behalf of former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, today raised concerns over two commissioners investigating bribery allegations against her.

The lawyers had said that the two commissioners were biased, a lawyer appearing on behalf of the former Chief Justice said.

This was said when Bandaranayake appeared before the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption today.

Outgoing Army Commander General Jagath Jayasuriya says he transformed the wartime Army to be that of a peacetime one and bringing it on par with the best in the world.

Speaking to trrops at the Security Force Headquarters -Central (SFHQ-C) at Diyatalawa Jayasuriya said that tremendous efforts were made to bring back the professional standards of the Army, similar to the times of the 1970s after making most necessary structural changes to the organization.

“The Army was brought back to its old professional stan

In a meeting with the World Bank’s Executive Director for Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan Mr. Mukesh Prasad today, President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged the Bank to focus more on large core projects rather than smaller projects that have a lesser impact.

Issuing a statement the President’s Office said that Mr. Prasad agreed and said that the World Bank too has begun to focus more on larger “transformational projects that have a direct bearing on the goals of the country.”

The Speaker Chamal Rajapakse said at Mahamudalindarama Viharaya that today parents give priority to tuitions and not to Daham Pasals.

He said this at the opening ceremony of the shrine room of the temple.

He further said “today the children do not get freedom to learn the religion.  Those days we went to Daham Pasala.  But, today most are going to tuition classes. Parents do not have time to send them to Daham Pasala. From Daham Pasala we learnt how to live in the country. The Monks are doing their re

Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan, political editor of the Huffington Post, warns Anne-Marie Waters that her “astonishing claims” might endanger her future as a Labour Party candidate, but assured her “don’t worry, the BNP will take you”.

Hasan asks why, if Islam is “responsible for killing,” such a tiny percentage of believers actually participate in violence. He asks the audience if they really believe that 1.6 billion people are all “followers, promoters and believers in a religion

Media minister Keheliya Rambukwella and the Ministry secretary Charitha Herath today (17) emphasized that the Govt did not have an urge to legalize a code of ethics for media.
 The clarified this matter while taking part in the intellectual discussion regarding the code of ethics for media organized by the Sri Lanka journalists union.

The Education Ministry yesterday issued arbitrary and sudden transfers to four teachers, who were due to give statements against the Principal of Royal College, Colombo, to the Public Services Commission (PSC) today (18), teachers unions alleged.

According to the Ceylon Teachers' Union (CTU), 12 teachers had lodged complaints with the PSC against the Principal of Royal College, Colombo, levelling charges of fraudulent and corrupt activities. The 12 teachers had received a mail from the PSC last week, instructing them to pr

The Negombo Mayor Anthony Jayaweera, who was charged with the obstruction of the duties of a police sergeant by abusing, threatening and pushing him after holding him by his uniform, was produced before Negombo the Magistrate A. M. P. N. Amarasinghe and released on Rs. 10,000 cash bail and Rs. 200,000 surety bail.

According to the police, the suspect allegedly fled after causing an accident.

When the victim ordered him to stop the vehicle he had threatened, abused and pushed him, the police said.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has faulted the Health Ministry for its continuing failure to maintain a proper database on (Human Resources Management Information System) on doctors.                                    GMOA President Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya yesterday said the matter had been raised periodically over the years, but to no avail.

Previously unemployed graduates, who were subsequently given employment by the Public Administration Ministry, are yet to receive permanent placements despite having been employed for over one and a half years, the Graduate Employees' Union (GEU) said.

Speaking to Ceylon Today, GEU General Secretary, Chandana Sooriyarachchi, said of the 50,000 graduates who were provided with jobs over a year and a half ago, only 16,000 were given permanent placements.