Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said yesterday disciplinary action would be taken against the female teacher who climbed onto the roof of the Royal College to protest against her transfer.

 He said that such teachers were not suitable for the state service.

 "That teacher has violated the norms of the public service and she must be punished for that," Minister Gunawardena said.

 The teacher had been transferred to a school less than one kilometer from the Royal College due to

Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA), at its Executive Committee meeting held recently had discussed the need to establish a database of doctors, and the annual transfer of doctors by adhering to the laid down rules and regulations in this regard.  

Spokesperson of the GMOA, Dr. Navin De Soysa, said: “It is extremely important that the Ministry of Health takes immediate steps to ensure that an islandwide database of doctors is compiled as soon as possible in view of the many difficulties that arise w

The Chairman of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) Thilak Collure is to resign from his post, sources told the Colomboi Gazette.

It is understood that Collure had tendered his resignation as he was to go oversaes.

His resignation comes amidst the controvercy over the importing of substandard fuel to the country.

Meanwhile Petroleum Resources Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa said that the CPC had rejected 5000MT of imported Octane 95 petrol after two tests had found that it was contaminated.

Scores of suspected war criminals including those believed to be from Sri Lanka are living in Britain, a BBC report said today.

Almost 100 suspects – with the majority likely to have been living in Britain for years – originate from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Rwanda, Serbia and Sri Lanka.

The Home Office, which says it is determined the UK will not become a refuge for war criminals, identified the suspects last year, the BBC reported. The figures emerged from a Freedom of Informat

Claiming that Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird has confirmed his participation in the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, Sri Lanka today expressed hope that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper would also confirm his participation at the CHOGM.

“About 85 per cent of the participants from 54 Commonwealths countries including Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird have confirmed their attendance at CHOGM. We hope the Canadian Premier will also confirm his participation once the oth

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird is expected to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, External Affairs Ministry Monitoring MP Sajin Vass Gunawardena said today.

The MP said this when he met newspaper Editor and electronic media heads at Temple Trees for breakfast this morning.

Gunawardena said the government however hopes Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as the head of state, will attend the key summit.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has declined to accept the proposed Presidential Commission to investigate into the disappearances that took place in the war torn areas during the conflict period.

Last Thursday President Mahinda Rajapaksa has given instructions to Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunge to appoint a Presidential Commission to investigate into the disappearances in the north and the east during the conflict period.

Weeratunge is also the head of the steering committee that oversees the implementat

India says it wants a level field for all the communities living in Sri Lanka, Indian media report said.

Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said this while speaking at an interaction in Bangalore yesterday.

His comments came just as a group of Sri Lankans urged neighbouring India yesterday not to interfere in their country’s internal affairs by criticizing plans to withdraw rights from provincial councils set up to share power with ethnic minority Tamils.

About 100 protesters from the Fe

A group of 68 Sri Lankans who recently arrived at Cocos (Keeling) Islands is now on Christmas Island about to begin enhanced screening processes, the Australian High Commission in Colombo said.

They face the same assessment process that unauthorised maritime arrivals (UMAs) of Sri Lankan background have since last year when the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) took steps to stem a significant upsurge in boat arrivals from Sri Lanka.

“Those who are screened out will be returned to Colombo as soo

On November 24 last year, workers digging a trench in the compound of Matale hospital, central Sri Lanka, made a gruesome discovery. Using a backhoeing machine ahead of plans to build foundations for a new bio-gas unit behind a kitchen, workers began to unearth what appeared to be human remains.

Forensic excavation over the next three months confirmed at least 154 human skeletons, the largest mass grave discovered in Sri Lanka, where more than three decades of civil war ended with the defeat of the rebel Tamil Tigers in 2009.