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| Over 275 graduates to be employed as teachers in WP |
| 2013-07-08 |
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Two hundred and seventy seven (277) graduates are to be employeed as teachers in the Western Province.
The Provincial Department of Education Secretary S.D. Kodikara noted that 240 of them will be enrolled according to the results of the competency test held in 2011.
He added that the rest will be those who have graduated from the University of Colombo. The presentation ceremony of letters of appointments is to be held tomorrow.
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| Basil Rajapaksa meets with Tamil Nadu fishermen |
| 2013-07-08 |
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Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa met with the members of the Tamil Nadu Fishermen Federation on Friday during his tour of India. The meeting took place in new Delhi ..
During the meeting Minister Basil Rajapaksa has emphasised on the importance of maintaining and enhancing people to people relations between fishing communities in northern Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu in order to resolve the problems they face.
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| AG’s request for time till August 5 granted |
| 2013-07-08 |
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The case compelling the Inspector General of Police to take criminal action against the former DIG Vass Gunawardena in an abduction and torture case was taken up in the Court of Appeal on Thursday. The Attorney General asked for time till August 5, to get instructions in this case against the former DIG in connection with the abduction and alleged torturing of Malabe IT student Nipuna Ramanayake in 2009.
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| Sri Lanka President saddened by Bodh Gaya explosions: official |
| 2013-07-08 |
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was on Sunday shocked and dismayed by the news of serial explosions in internationally renowned Mahabodhi temple in India, a place of religious significance for the Buddhists.
“President Rajapaksa was shocked and dismayed by the news,” Presidential Media Coordinator Wijayananda Herath said.
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| Several trains cancelled due to railway strike |
| 2013-07-08 |
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Several night mail trains have been cancelled due to a strike from midnight today by railway trade union.
Railways Professional Trade Union Alliance decided to launch a 48 hour strike from midnight today (07), based on several demands including a wage hike.
A total of 11 trade unions attached to the Trade Union Alliance are expected to take part in the strike action.
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| Nominations for NWC Councillor who made teacher kneel! |
| 2013-07-08 |
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Making an about-face from an earlier decision to banish from the Party, former North-Western Provincial (NWP) Councillor, Ananda Sarath Kumara, who created a nationwide scandal after he allegedly forced a female school teacher of Navagaththegama Navodya Vidyalaya to kneel before him, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has now decided to issue nominations to the errant provincial politico, to contest in the forthcoming NWP election.
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| Bring Lankan Tamils into mainstream: Khurshid |
| 2013-07-07 |
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India’s external affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Friday urged Sri Lanka to fully implement its pledges to integrate the minority Tamils into the country’s political mainstream as the island-nation announced polls to the predominantly Tamil-dominated Northern Province in September.
The minister conveyed the message to Basil Rajapaksa, minister for economic development and brother of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is on a visit to India, the ministry of external affairs said in a statement.
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| Khuram Shaikh murder: DNA evidence delays Sri Lanka trial |
| 2013-07-07 |
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Problems with DNA evidence have delayed the prosecution of suspects over the murder of a Red Cross worker in Sri Lanka in 2011, British officials said.
Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Milnrow, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was shot and stabbed on Christmas Day 2011.
Eight people, including a Sri Lankan politician, were arrested and bailed in November. They all denied the charges.
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| Sri Lanka launches website on the action plan for implementing LLRC recommendations |
| 2013-07-07 |
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The Sri Lankan government Friday launched the official website of the National Action Plan for the Implementation of Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission recommendations.
The website www.llrcaction.gov.lk will provide updated information relating to the progress of implementing the recommendations of the LLRC.
Sri Lanka's Cabinet of Ministers last year approved the National Action Plan which has named implementation of recommendations according to activity, key responsible agency, key performance indicat
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| Basil meets TN fishermen |
| 2013-07-07 |
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Minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is on a visit to New Delhi, met representatives of the Tamil Nadu Fishermen Federation in New Delhi on 5 July, the Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi said.
“The Minister thanked the representatives of the Fishermen Federation for travelling to New Delhi to meet him and emphasised the importance of maintaining and enhancing people-to-people contact between the fishing communities in northern Sri Lanka and in Tamil Nadu in India to resolve problems of fishermen amicably and meaningfully,&
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