It has been revealed that the 3 year loss of Mihin Lanka airline company is 1373,50,00,000.

This was seen in the Mihin Lanka audit report presented to the parliament by the Auditor General H.A.S. Samaraweera.

It is said that the loss in 2007/2008 is 3,35,60,00,000.
2008/9 loss is 4,65,70,00,000 and 2009/10 loss is 5,72,20,00,000.

And further, Auditor General reported that the airline in indebted 50,00,00,000 to the aviation pvt ltd and 38,10,70,000 to a bank.

A group of students from the University of Ruhuna have been hospitalized after being assaulted by residents in a brawl that broke out, the Police Media Spokesman stated.

The incident took place last night (July 30) while police reported that four students and one resident was admitted to hospital with injuries.

The Bodu Bala Sena will recommence its battle against the Halal Certification to root it out entirely from the country, one of the organisation’s leading monks has pledged.

General Secretary of the BBS, Buddhists monk Galagodaaththe Gnanasara said that although the group had stepped away from the battle against Halal because of the intervention of the Maha Sanga, the problem has not yet been resolved.

There is perhaps total consensus that religion is one of the major factors that exerts influences on the people: nurturing, moulding, and contributing to the development of their character. But religion by itself is not able to exert this influence. This happens depending on how it is communicated to the people. This religious communication is done by the religious men. Therefore, in discussing the issue of reconciliation, which involves both inter-religion and inter-religious harmony, the role of religious men has to be examined very ca

Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage, National Community Water Trust, National Water supply & Drainage Board and Lanka Rain Water Harvesting Forum has jointly organized the 2nd International Conference on “Water Cooperation for Community Development”. It is to be held from 16-18th August 2013 in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
 
 
The Conference is convened to mark this year’s the UN declared theme ‘International Year of Water Cooperation’ and to follow up on the 1st International C

 Magistrate Arvinda Perera yesterday released Moratuwa Mayor Saman Lal Fernando and five others on personal bail in Rs. 50, the new principal of Prince of Wales College from carrying out his duties.

The schools deputy Principal Subashini Kapurupassa, who was also alleged to have been involved in organizing the demonstration against the new principal with the assistance of several parents, was severely warned and discharged.

The Maligakanda Magistrate yesterday imposed a fine of Rs. 5,000 on the Senior Assistant Registrar of the Colombo University Management Faculty, for allowing mosquitoes to breed in the Faculty premises.

The Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council (PHD CMC) said that in the cases taken up yesterday at the Maligakanda Court the Railway Yard Forman too had been fined Rs. 5,000.

However, a warrant had been issued for the arrest of the Manager of the China Harbour Engineering Company Project (CHECP) for

The Colombo Additional Magistrate yesterday issued an order on the Controller of the Immigration and Emigration preventing former DIG Vaas Gunawardena’s son Ravindu Gunawardena from leaving the country.
Filing a motion before Colombo Additional Magistrate Mohamed Shahabdeen, the CID moved Court that an order be issued on the Controller of Immigration and Emigration to prevent Ravindu Gunawardena, a suspect wanted for the killing of businessman Shyam, from leaving the country. The CID further moved Court that order be issued on

Police Headquarters noted that there is an ongoing investigation on the assault on Malaka Silva- son of Minister Mervyn Silva by twelve men even there is no complaint lodged by their party.

The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) and the Cinnamon Garden police are investigating into the attack on Malaka.

“When we receive ‘first hand information’ we go to the scene soon as possible and start our investigations,” police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena said.

“That is what the police will

Former DIG Vas Gunawardena is reportedly attempting to obtain affidavits from several suspects in the Mohammed Siyam murder case while in prison, to the effect that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)secured their confessions by misleading them.

It is reported that Gunawardena is trying to collect affidavits from these suspects stating that the CID recorded statements from them under Section 127 of the Penal Code after an assurance from ASP Shani Abeysekera that they would be released.

Reliable sources said