The government has failed to honour its promise to provide an electronic arm to law student, Achala Priyadarshani, who lost her arm due to medical negligence, Ceylon Today learns.
Achala said although a number of promises were made when she was receiving treatment at the hospital, none of those promises bore fruit.

“I am studying for my final year examination. I have realized that most of the pledges were given only to appease me.However, I will continue my studies and I extend my gratitude to all the people who hel

Dr.Sivalingam Sivananthan, a distinquished old boy of Jaffna Hindu College (1968 -75) and currently professor of physics at the University of Illinois Chicago and founder of Sivananthan Laboratories in Bolingbrook, USA, has been named a White House Champion of Change, an honour that recognizes immigrant entrepreneurs. He was given this honor at a ceremony at the White House on May 29th 2013.
Sivananthan’s work with a semiconductor material, mercury cadmium telluride or MCT, is at the heart of night vision technology and made t

The government intends to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio from 80.2 percent in 2012 to 75 percent this year and 60 percent by 2017, according to targets set out in the Medium Term Debt Management Strategy 2013-2017 (MTDS) and the Central Bank says there are challenges, among them falling demand from private investors while captive sources such as the EPF and NSB drive the domestic government debt market.

Chief Justice Mohan Peiris has decided to initiate an investigation into the personal security of Homagama District Court Judge Sunil Abeysinghe.

The personal security men had surrounded the Judge last week when he was taken to be presented before the Colombo Chief Magistrate on Thursday.

The men had prevented journalists from getting close to Judge Sunil Abeysinghe and had even held up books in an attempt to cover the face of the Judge from the cameras.

Over the last couple of months, academics attached to the University of Colombo have been publicly speaking against what they feared would be an unsuitable appointment to fill the Vice Chancellor’s post at the university. The academics suspected, the post, left vacant since former Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama, was appointed as Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC) earlier this year, would be filled by her spouse, Dr. Kumara Hirimburegama. They claimed such an appointment would encourage family

Academic and administrative affairs at the Colombo University were ‘proceeding smoothly’, its new Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr. Kumara Hirimburegama told The Nation.
He was responding to a question whether protests against his appointment by certain academics led by the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA), had impacted on day-to-day activities at the university.
The new VC stressed his appointment made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa this week was legal and done according to the Constitution. &ldq

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The Trincomalee Urban Council has decided to suspend the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with the US Embassy in Colombo to open a US corner in Trincomalee.

Secretary of the Urban Council Abdul Latif Mohammad Nafeel said that the External Affairs Ministry had informed the Council that the deal was unacceptable.

Mr. Bala Tampoe, the General Secretary to the CMU, wrote the following letter on May 21 to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on his union’s participation on the May 21 strike and the reasons thereof.

CMU STRIKE IN PROTEST AGAINST IMPOSITION OF INCREASED ELECTRICITY TARIFFS

We wish to inform you that the members of branches of our Union in industrial and commercial establishments will strike today, in solidarity with the members of a group of several other unions that have informed our Union of their joint decision to

The Norwegian Ambassador in Colombo says the decision to terminate the agreement with the Foundation for Co-existence headed by Kumar Rupasinghe was done in accordance with the termination clauses in the agreement relating to non-fulfillment of the recipient’s obligations.

Colombo Additional District Judge Amali Ranaweera had recently ruled that the Foundation for Co-Existence can proceed with a case to sue the former Norwegian Ambassador, Hilde Haraldstad and other Norwegian officials for Rs. 98.5 million for failing to