Cabinet has approved a proposal to regulate International schools and private schools operating in the country, the governmenmt information department said today.

The proposal to regulate International schools and private schools operating in the countrymade was made by the Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena.

The government says a number of International Schools are presently functioning in the country and they have been registered as business ventures under the Board of Investment or Companies Act.

Five inmates of the special camp for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Chengalpattu were shifted to a new camp in Trichy on Tuesday. The move comes amid the government’s decision to hand over the Chengalpattu and Poonamallee camps to the State prisons department.

The special camp in Chengalpattu, which is under the control of ‘Q’ Branch police, had 43 Sri Lankan Tamils facing charges in various cases. On Tuesday, around 9 pm, five inmates — P Ela Nehru (44), Ilangainathan, Selvaraj, Thavadeepan and Soundarar

The Open University lecturer, who was admitted to hospital with stab injuries, is in a stable condition, Accident Services Training Coordinator and Team Leader Pushpa Ramyani de Soysa said.

“She is now conscious and has been taken off the ventilator machine,” she told Daily Mirror Online a short while ago.

Fishing and naval communities are requested to remain vigilant from Mannar to Potuvil via Galle and Jaffna to Trincomalee as strong winds will increase up to 70kmph, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) said.

Meanwhile the Department of Meteorology had stated that several spells of showers will occur in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces and Galle, Matara, Puttalam and Kurunegala districts.

The body of an infant has been discovered inside a garbage bag dumped in the roadside at Pahalawela, Thalangama.

The discovery was made this morning by a garbage collector working for the Kaduwela Municipal Council during their daily rounds.

Yesterday the Attorney General said that he is considering prosecuting DIG Vass Gunawardana for abducting and assaulting Nipuna Ramanayaka in 2009. Earlier both Attorney General and Police only prosecuted only DIG’s wife, son and a few police officers.

A team of Colombo Crime Division (CCD) police officers had abducted and assaulted Nipuna Ramanayaka.

The Homagama Magistrate Court ordered MP Arundika Fernando to appear in court on July 16 to give evidence over the disappearance of Journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda.

UPFA MP for the Puttalam District, Arundika Fernando stated in parliament that missing journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda was currently living in France.

Fernando said that he was introduced to Eknaligoda by another Sri Lanka journalist, during a visit to France.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia told External Affairs Minister Professor G.L. Peiris that she is looking forward to attending the Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka, and that Australia will do everything she can to ensure total success of the event. She made this observation at a meeting in the Australian Parliament in Canberra on Wednesday.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Senator Robert Carr reiterated the enthusiastic support of his country for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo in November.

Another incident of anti-Muslim violence has occurred in the Southern province of Sri Lanka during the course of the protest march being conducted by the Sinhala Ravaya from Kataragama/Kathirkaamam to Colombo.

Preliminary reports indicate that a Muslim photographer authorised by the Police to record the Sinhala March had been assaulted with the Police doing nothing to stop it.

There’s no need to hold the punches, let’s say it straight. Vermin who gladly enjoyed and exploited the Provincial Council system for 25 years, JHU, JVP, SLFP and an assortment of Councils included, are now up in arms at the thought of Tamils in the Northern Province having an elected council of their own for the first time since 13A was enacted! What is the mental makeup of these rats? I do not hold back in declaring them racists. If you belong in this bunch of bigots that want to deprive the NPC of rights other PCs en