The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has planned to start a new waste recycling process from June this year. Municipal Commissioner Badrani Jayawardana said that the CMC waste management division will collect waste as sorted and unsorted from June 01. Solid waste management is a burning issue in Colombo and a huge mountain of garbage is piling up in the north of the city.
The Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Wimal Rubasinghe recently pointed out that successful solid waste management is not possible unless there

The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) has accused the University Grants Commission (UGC) for its lethargy to act on lecturers who have failed to return to the country having completed their doctorate studies.
Responding to reports that over to pursue their doctorate studies have not returned to the island, FUTA Head, Dr Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri lamented that the UGC could do more to resolve the issue but alleged it was remaining nonchalant.

UNP Badulla District parliamentarian Harin Fernando says that the government’s move to marginally reduce the electricity tariffs that were increased last month is yet another media gimmick done to divert people’s attention from the issue and to convince that the government is genuine in addressing the people’s issues. He observed that people should not endorse the government that promotes aimless development projects. “What people in this country can do is to stand up for their rights and demand,” Fernando s

UNP draws fire and token support as it dutifully loses its head over a debatable exercise in futility

The debate on the ‘No Confidence’ motion against Foreign Employment Promotion Minister Dilan Perera, over the execution of housemaid Rizana Nafeek, was another opportunity to reflect on the plight of thousands of Sri Lankans employed in the Middle East, mainly as housemaids, and annually inject the biggest chunk in foreign exchange into State coffers.

As to how prudent it is to bring a ‘No Confidenc

I was indeed pleasantly surprised when your President invited me to address you today. It is eight years since I retired. Though I have been very busy addressing  here and abroad many a meeting on legal, social, religious, literary, historical and many other allied subjects, and  sometimes writing about them, the Original Judiciary to which I belonged and the tenure of which I cherished so much never invited me so far.

While stating that he does not advocate or support anyone to take up arms against Sri Lanka, former Colombo Deputy Mayor in an affidavit said he was misquoted by the Junior Vikatan magazine published in India.

“I gave an interview to the Junior Vikatan magazine published in India. I state that in the manner in which the interview was published I have been misquoted. Upon realizing this I requested them to publish a correction which has been republished,” he said in his affidavit which was sent to President Mahinda

Addressing a gathering at the Sri Lanka Press Institute in Colombo on Thursday evening, the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Attorney-at-Law Upul Jayasuriya expressed the following views.

''The law that applies to people with power is different to the laws that apply to the powerless and the people with divergent views. The recent bail application that was filed at a court of law in a quadruple murder case was attended to by the judge concerned in the ordinary course of matters that come up for at his cou

The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) yesterday said that they were ready to announce a list of political appointees in universities and the University Grants Commission (UGC).

FUTA President Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri told The Island that the university system had been highly politicized during the past four years.

Dr. Dewasiri alleged that appointments of Peradeniya Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice Chancellor served as examples.

Ousted Chief Justice Shirani Banadaranayake who appeared before the Commission Investigating Allegations of Bribery Commission yesterday raised objections to the presence of Chairman Justice Balapatabendi and member Jayantha Wickeramaratne.

 She asked that they disqualified from participating in the proceedings against her.

Filing her objections, she said that former Chief Justice Asoka De Silva had purchased an apartment at the Trillium condominium when the Ceylinco case was ongoing and his personal relationshi

Must the Sri Lankan citizenry accept or acquiesce in the sacrifice, even in peacetime, of due process and civil liberties at the altar of an absolutist model of security?

The state, or rather its hard-core and its propaganda apparatuses, has sallied forth to defend its conduct in the Azath Salley affair. Unpacking its aggressively defensive discourse, many things stand revealed.

Firstly, that the doctrine of pre-emptive hyper-securitisation has increasingly become the driving doctrine and dominant ideology of a demo