Budgetary allocations for Sri Lanka’s education sector fall short by approximately Rs.14.2 billion when compared to allocations presented in the Budget Speech by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Verité Research, a private research firm, which provides strategic analysis for corporate and government institutions in Asia said in a report.

In Section 36.8 of his speech, President Rajapaksa delivered assurances that the government would continue to maintain its commitment to the free education system, subsequently proposi

Attanagalle Magistrate B. D. R. Sisira Kumara yesterday issued a warrant against Deputy Petroleum Minister Sarana Gunawardena for failing to appear in Court in a case where he is charged, along with some others, with entering a property belonging to a construction firm and causing damage to it.

The suspects in this case are Deputy Minister Gunawardena, Chairman of the Attanagalle Pradeshiya Sabha Upul Mahendra Rajapaksa and 18 government and opposition members of the same PS.

 A high level investigation has been launched into an incident where two disabled soldiers were allegedly assaulted by an Inspector of Police, attached to the Maharagama police station, at Maharagama town on Monday afternoon.

The two disabled soldiers, attached to the Mihindu Sethmadura at Attidiya and another soldier, who was detailed to carry them to their destinations, as they were unable to get about on their own, were travelling in a specially turned out trishaw. The vehicle, driven by one of them who had lost

GMOA media spokesman Dr. Navin de Soysa yesterday claimed that quacks, pretending to be qualified medical officers and practicing medicine, were prescribing wrong medications and as a result many patients had lost their lives.

Around 40,000 quacks scattered around the country had done more harm than good. Health tourism from which Sri Lanka could earn substantial foreign exchange was in jeopardy, he told the media at the GMOA head office

Sri Lanka Bureau of Foriegn Employment (SLBFE) sleuths yesterday nabbed several women, including an underaged girl who tried to migrate for foreign employment, with the aid of forged documents.

In two separate incidents, sleuths nabbed four females at the Katunayake airport who had forged SLBFE emblems in their passports. All four were trying to leave for Saudi Arabia for employment as domestic aides.

India has asked Sri Lanka to continue dialogue with the Tamil community to ensure a future for them that is marked by "equality, dignity and justice", and also expressed hope for early progress on "meaningful devolution" of powers to Tamil majority areas.

Addressing a joint media conference with visiting Sri Lanka Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid also emphasized on the safety of fishermen of both countries.

The two countries Tuesday held the eighth meeting o

DAP should explain the discrepancies in the amount collected under its Sri Lanka War Victims’ Fund, which have cast doubts among their supporters, said former Selangor DAP auditor Tan Tuan Tat.

He claimed that documents on the fund had revealed the discrepancies, adding that these were posted “anonymously” to him.

The documents, he said, showed that DAP had held a donation drive in Tamils in then war-torn Sri Lanka via British-based organisation Mercy Mission, known as “Mercy Mis

“To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government”…..… Sir William Blackstone

On Tuesday, 22nd January 2013, Parliame

United Kingdom calls on Sri Lankan government to respect democratic principles and safeguard Chief Justice and legal profession.

Commenting on the Sri Lankan Parliament’s vote today to impeach the Chief Justice, a Foreign Office spokesperson said:

“The British Government is deeply concerned by the impeachment proceedings against Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. We share the concerns already expressed by many people in Sri Lanka over both the process and related reports of the intimidat

A children's home was declared open in Kilinochchi on Sunday under the auspices of Kumaran Padmanadan alias KP.
 
The children's home named Sencholai has been constructed in Thiruvaiyaru, Killinochchi.

Several people including the Divisional Secretary of Kilinochchi and military representatives attended the event.

''The inherent talents of each child must be brought to the fore. As far as our people are concerned it is their effort and education that will help them compete in the world. It