The British government has raised concerns over the failure by the Sri Lankan authorities to commence trial proceedings into the murder of British citizen Khuram Shaikh.

A statement by the British High Commission in Colombo said that it is now 18 months since the murder of Shaikh, and assault on his partner Victoria, while they were on holiday in Tangalle.

The British High Commission said it is deeply disappointed that trial proceedings have not yet commenced and continues to call for the perpetrators of this terrib

Former LTTE women’s wing political head, Thamilini, was freed today after completing rehabilitation, Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Brigadier Dharshana Hettiarachi said.

He said that her mother and her sister together with the sister’s children met Thamilini and took her home from the Vavuniya rehabilitation camp.

“She was freed after she completed one year in rehabilitation,” Brigadier Dharshana Hettiarachi said.

Thamilini is one of the most senior former LTTE members to have

A study done by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Education Ministry and the Australian AID, has revealed that there are only 2 per cent of non-schooling children in Sri Lanka.

UNICEF’s Deputy Country Representative Ms Antonia De Meo said that it was the first such study in South Asia, which was started in 2010.

She was addressing the launching of the country study report on ‘Out–of–School Children in Sri Lanka’ at

Jaffna Peninsula has an area of 1000 square km and being flat has no rivers and is totally dependent on the annual rainfall of about 1270 mm, of which about 87% falls during the north-east monsoon from October to December, for recharge of the water table in the underground aquifer.  In the past, water was drawn from wells for domestic and agricultural use by well sweeps, but from the 1950’s onwards pumps have been used to draw water from these wells.  There are nearly 100,000 wells in the Peninsula. This over pumping for

Sinhala Ravaya organization, an Sinhala Buddhist movement in Sri Lanka, handed over a memorandum against cattle slaughter to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today at the Temple Trees.

The chairperson of the group Ven. Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero handed over the memorandum with five demands including the call for the ban of cattle slaughter in the country.

A education sector trade union in Sri Lanka, Ceylon Teachers Union today protested the moves of the provincial councils to recruit retired officials to the vacant positions in the education administrative service while there are sufficient qualified officials in the service.

Ceylon Teachers' Union secretary Joseph Stalin Fernando charged that the Provincial Education Secretary of Western Province is taking measures to recruit retired officials under contracts to positions in the education administrative service in the West

This article is with reference to the incident where a provincial councillor of the Northwestern province forced a teacher at Nawagattegama Navodya School to kneel down and scolded her with filth because she had advised his daughter to wear the uniform properly.

I wished to write this article as I was reminded of an incident, which occurred in 1979 where the Education Minister during that period, Dr. Nissanka Wijeratne praised and promoted a teacher who punished his son. He was the only minister in relation to the education of

an  organizer of Wimalaweera Dissanayake Fund maintained by Eastern Province Minister Wimalaweera Dissanayake, has assaulted the principal of Chandanagama Vidyalaya , Sunil Jayasinghe,at a Poson Zone at 9.30 pm.

The Poson zone had been organized by Wimalaweera Fund and Dehiaththakandiya Viharaya and the attacker has been wearing a T-shirt of the Wimalaweera Fund.Is is reported that only the active members of the fund were given the T-shirt.

Six people were killed and at least 4 others were injured when a train crashed into a van in Aluthgama late this evening (Tuesday).

According to the police, the injured people have been admitted to the Nagoda hospital for treatment.

The accident had taken place at an unprotected railway crossing close to the Aluthgama railway station.

The police said that most of those killed were women.

The army says it had turned down an offer by India to train two Sri Lankan officers at another location as opposed to the Defence Services Staff Course (DSSC) in Wellington, Tamil Nadu.

The two officers who were following the Defence Services Staff Course (DSSC) in Wellington, India returned to the island today (Tuesday) prematurely following stiff opposition in Tamil Nadu to the training given to them.

Army spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said that due to some security concerns the Indian Government had off