There is absolutely no reason to discontinue the leadership training programmes just because one participant, a school principal, had died while undergoing training, the Higher Education Ministry said yesterday.

Speaking to Ceylon Today, Deputy Minister for Higher Education Nandimitra Ekanayake, said there is no reason to do away with leadership training programmes, adding that such porgrammes had been conducted over a long period of time.

Minister of Higher Education, S.B. Dissanayake, yesterday said action will be taken against owners of private buses, if they provide transport for undergraduates who are due to protest in Colombo today.

The minister said he has requested the police and Private Transport Minister, C.B. Ratnayake, to advise bus owners against transporting students, who plan to agitate in Colombo. The police will take immediate action against the bus owners, if they have not taken route permits to transport the students, he told the media during

Law student Shivasundram Surendrajith who stabbed the head of the legal department of the Open University of Sri Lanka Yasodara Kadiragamathambi has been further remanded till 16th July.

Nugegoda Magistrate Ranjith Masinghe rejected the bail and remanded till 16th July. Law student was a medical doctor in profession taking treatment at the Mulleriyawa mental hospital. Head of the Legal Department still obtaining residential treatment at the National Hospital.

Three Police Superintendents have been transferred from their current posts, the Police Media Spokesman’s office stated.

Kurunegala SP R.F.C. De Silva was transferred to the Colombo Tourist Division while Batticaloa SP S.M.A.L. Samarakoon was appointed as the Kurunegala SP.

 

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka`s police has arrested a university professor who is suspected of luring women through social media and abusing them.

The 42-year-old Sri Lankan is a professor in the atomic energy field in a foreign country.

The individual has appeared in social media under several pseudonyms.

Seychelles: Small nations like Sri Lanka and Seychelles which fought of colonialism years ago are under threat from emerging power blocks and the cooperation between Asia and Africa to prevent attempts by interested parties intervening in the internal affairs of developing nations is needed more than ever, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

`Modern international relations are marred by the self-interest of states and their struggle for power. We feel that the very colonialism that we had fought and freed ourselves fr

“The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”  ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing, I say. Nothing of my ego will survive. My body will dissolve itself into elements aided either by a consuming fire in the case of cremation or by the action of maggots in the event of burial. There is nothing that survives the material body. With the death of the brain my consciousness also goes and so I wouldn’t know what occurs post m

Contemporary Sri Lanka politics has become a gigantic swindle perpetrated by many of the people, elected by most of the people and supposedly for all the people. But they are anything but for the people who are beginning to recognize the bitter reality that many of those chosen representatives run the country only with their own interests at heart.

In the West we are known as a short, fat, black and ugly nation. Now we have lost our dignity, pride, self-respect, spines, ethics and morals. What are we left with? Nothing! What a nation we have become! A ‘nothing nation’!

Indeed our country is beautiful. The world admires its natural splendour, magnanimity and hospitality of at least some of its people. We have a glorious history to talk about and be proud of. But then, what has happened to us.

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena has prohibited the transport of cattle from the Polonnaruwa administrative district with immediate effect.

A health ministry statement quoted Minister Sirisena, who is also the General Secretary of the SLFP, as having said that Polonnaruwa Divisional Secretary Nimal Abeysiri and Senior DIG North Central Province, Ravi Wijegunawardena were told to take tangible measures in this regard, at the district development meeting held on Monday.