A 22-year-old resident of Barnes Watta, Barnes Place, Colombo 7 has been killed at a club in Cinnamon Gardens early today following a clash between two groups, police said.

The murder had occurred between 2.30 am and 4 am, in Thummulla. The victim was identified 22 year old Jeyakumar Suren.

The Police said the victim together with his friends had got into an argument with another group at a Karaoke club in Thummulla which led to the rival gang mercilessly assaulting the youth outside the club.

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has taken several homes and business establishments to task for not keeping their premises tidy, during the dengue eradication campaign carried out last week.

This follows the CMC conducting house-to-house inspection during the period 6-13 February on premises in and around Colombo, during the island wide Mosquito Eradication Week declared by the Ministry of Health. CMC Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam, told Ceylon Today the CMC will take legal action against 33 homes and busin

"India proposed a time schedule for the political processes in the North and East. This was prepared by the RAW in consultations with Dixit. The schedule was as follows:

12 June, to announce the North East merge. 15 June, LTTE to announce support to the Accord, readiness to surrender arms and join the political process. 16 and 21 June, discuss with LTTE military leadership, the modalities of surrender and ground rules for the observance of informal ceasefire. 22 to 25 June, surrender of first lot of arms at designated cen

Time was when among ultra radical leftists in this country there was a taboo on love. Romance was a preserve of their leaders considered ‘more equal’ than their rank and file, who had to make war while practising ‘incel’ or involuntary celibacy, as it were. For, they feared that love would have a mellowing effect on the pitiless hearts of brainwashed, pugnacious youth ‘programmed’ to kill and die for a macabre cause. Instead, they used to romanticise mindless violence and their leaders went underground

International degree providers in Sri Lanka are an asset to the national education sector, rather than being a bane to it, Higher Education Minister S B Dissanayake said.
Stating that local university system does not have the capacity to accommodate all who qualify for higher education and this has created a plethora of issues for students who fail to enter the system, the minister said international degree providers have filled this vacuum to a certain extent.

The National Committee on Women will initiate a special programme in the Eastern province to prevent abuse of women today (15) at 8.30 a.m.   

The spokesman for the Ministry of Child Development and Women’s Affairs (CDWA) said yesterday that it aimed to implement the recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and the Human Rights Report (HRR).

He said that it would be the preliminary step towards implementing the National Action Plan identified by the LLRC an

The Central Bank has used EPF funds to purchase The Finance Company PLC (TFC) shares at Rs. 40 each, inflated by 66.66 percent, when the market value was just Rs. 24 per share in 2011, according to a report submitted by the Auditor General (AG) to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), R. Yogarajan UNP MP, a member of the PAC, said yesterday (14).

The now infamous NSB-TFC deal also saw shares being bought at a price inflated by 66 percent.

"An important issue reported by the AG was the purchase of 5,091,200 shares

  A protest by about 300 nurses and 100 midwives, at the Mahamodara Teaching Hospital, against the Chief Matron Mallika Jayasinghe and Hospital Directress Dr. Priyani Senadeera, over alleged mal-administration and harassment is heading for an all out strike, according to hospital sources.

Unless the Health Ministry takes appropriate action to settle the dispute, the nursing union would launch a strike next week, nurses have warned. The nursing staff walked out last week in protest against the matron but the inquiry conduc

The investigating committee of specialists who probed the circumstances that had led to the amputation of the left hand of Achala Priyadharshani of the Colombo Law Faculty have determined that it was due to the negligence of the staff of the Matara hospital and various shortcomings in the hospital services.

The report was handed over to the secretary of the Ministry of Health last Monday.

The report had identified the hospital staff who were responsible, and ministry secretary Dr Nihal Jayathilake said action would b

The main Opposition United National Party yesterday charged that the Government was tacitly sponsoring the anti-Muslim activities of a monk-led Buddhist extremist group operating in the country and warned the ruling regime was effectively ‘playing with fire’.

“The Muslim community is the latest target of a racist Government,” UNP Comm-unications Director and Parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera told a news conference yesterday. It was the ruling regime’s latest ploy to win favour with Sinhala Buddh