The Railway employees of the Professional Trade Union Alliance (PTUA) yesterday confirmed that they will commence a 56-hour token strike from midnight Monday, 21 January to 6 a.m. on 24 January, as their salary issues have not yet been resolved.


Speaking to Ceylon Today, Convener of the PTUA, Janaka Fernando, said they have not been given an opportunity to discuss the matter with President’s Secretary, Lalith Weeratunga, or any other official, before 21 January, despite their repeated requests to the Ministry of Tr

Rizana Nafeek’s grieving mother has rejected financial assistance offered by Saudi Arabia and even those in Sri Lanka who were responsible for her daughter’s death.

However, a group of Kandy Municipal Council members visited the family and offered to build a house to replace their cadjan-shed shelter in the village of Saji Nagar, a few miles off Muthur, in the Trincomalee district.

The team of Council members bearing a message from Mayor Mahindra Ratwatte to the family, comprised Deputy Mayor Dissanayake

 Media Secretary Charitha Herath said yesterday that the government was in the process of introducing a comprehensive code of ethics, for both print and electronic media, in accordance with its overall aim to streamline the industry.

Addressing representatives of print and electronic media, at the Media Ministry, Herath displayed a draft titled ‘media ethics’, which he said would be made available to the industry soon to pave the way for discussion. Assuring that all concerned parties would be consulted, Herat

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Row in Lanka as govt turns Tamil killing fields into tourist hot spot
Mullivaikkal is the coastal village where the Tamil Tigers made their last stand in May 2009, along with more than 150,000 starving terrified Tamil civilians.

Local people who've recently travelled into Sri Lanka's killing fields, where an estimated 40,000 people perished in 2009, say skulls and human bones have risen to the surface after this year's flooding and abando

A three-member high profile delegation from the United States of America is expected to arrive in the country in the coming weeks, on the directive of US President Barack Obama, in the aftermath of the ouster of Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake through an impeachment process, diplomatic sources said.

The delegation will comprise three deputy assistant secretaries, who function under Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert O. Blake. The deputies are in charge of good governanc

The gang who forcibly stopped the performance of ‘Verlvi Pooja’. at the Munneshwaram Kovil, has succumbed to the curse of Goddess Kali. Minister Mervin Silva has been forced to resign his chief organizer’s post. His private secretary has been arrested on allegations of murder. Hasitha Madawala, who swung closed the door of the temple, has been murdered. The Goddess has not spared even the person who passed the injunction order on the pooja. She is no more in her position said Mahandran Kurrukkal, Chief Priest of Munnesh

The Halaal certificate issued by the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) is at the heart of a controversy with both Muslims and non-Muslims alike complaining. Halaal, an Arabic word which means ‘permissible’, is applied in the issue at hand - in the certification of ‘permissible foods’ prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

JHU leader Ven. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera is said to have alleged that the ACJU earns Rs.7,000 million a year through the issuance of Halaal certification to 4,500 consumer goods. The

 The Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council (PHD-CMC) yesterday took legal action against eight night eateries after raids carried out in Union Place, Slave Island, Malay Street and Town Hall.  

Chief of the PHD Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam said that the his department had been able to inspect over 20 eateries yesterday evening alone.  

Dr. Kariyawasam said that the situation was "quite bad" in a majority of the places that were raided as they compromised on hygiene without con

In a significant gesture that shamed many Sri Lankan Muslim politicians the mother of Rizana Nafeek has rejected any offer of direct or indirect aid from Saudi Arabia the country in which her eldest daughter Rizana was wrongfully beheaded on January 9th 2013.

Despite the impoverished circumstances of the family that suffered bereavement the mother Ms. Abdul Seyyadu Fareena Nafeek has spurned direct and indirect offers of financial assistance from Saudi Arabia or any Saudi Arabian national.

She has also said that no

Rizana Nafeek’s execution on Wednesday (9th January) outraged many Sri Lankans. She was convicted of murdering a baby and sentenced to death by the Dawdami High Court in Saudi Arabia. She was 17 at the time of the alleged offence.

We are outraged for many reasons. Rizana was a minor at the time of the offence. Her recruitment agent falsified her documents in order to present her as older. Her conviction was secured despite the absence of a post mortem. The police obtained her ‘confession’ under duress. She ha