25% woman members: WPC proposes to govt.
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The Western Provincial Council is to propose to the government to enact laws to ensure that candidate lists for the local government elections have 25 percent women candidates which is seen as the first step towards bringing an amendment to the Local Government Election Bill Act. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:28:23 AM
Open warrant issued on monk, his father
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Mt. Lavinia Chief Magistrate Harsha Sethunga issued an open warrant on a person in robes and his father who were under custody for defrauding large sums of money amounting to lakhs of rupees from five young men promising employment in Canada and were absconding after being bailed out on the undertaking to return their money. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:26:34 AM
Granting bail to Directors of Ceylinco Shriram: Court reserves order
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Colombo Fort Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday reserved his order on granting bail to four Directors of Ceylinco Shriram Company for August 10. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:26:00 AM
HRW calls for release of IDPs
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The US based rights organization Human Rights Watch has urged the Sri Lankan government to immediately release more than 280,000 internally displaced Tamil civilians held in what they called "detention camps" in the north. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:25:27 AM
Galappatti to decide his political future
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Opposition Leader of the Southern Provincial Council Justin Galappatti is to decide his political future after meeting his supporters on Saturday. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:25:00 AM
Jaffna,Vavuniya and Uva postal voting ends
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The two-day postal voting for the August 8 Uva Provincial Council, Jaffna MC and Vavuniya UC concluded on Tuesday peacefully, election officials said yesterday.
In Uva PC, the turn out of postal voters on Monday and Tuesday was around 75%. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:24:40 AM
CDCs in Jaffna: 500 to join police service
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The government has established Civil Defence Committees (CDCs) in the Jaffna district with plans to recruit over 500 youth from the peninsula to the police service, Non-Cabinet Minister of Power and Energy Mahindananda Aluthgamage said.
-- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:23:56 AM
Suspicious tablets kills student
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
A 15-year-old student of a girls’ school in Panadura was found dead after consuming some suspicious tablets on Sunday. Her father had told Panadura police that last Sunday (26) at about 6.30 pm his daughter went to her room on the first floor of the house. She was carrying a glass full of milk. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:23:36 AM
SC reserves judgement on appeal
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The Supreme Court yesterday (29) reserved judgement on the appeal against the Order of the Appeal Court in respect of impugned rejection of the application of a Buddhist monk to obtain a driving licence. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:22:43 AM
Tourism Ministry to promote ‘Religious Tourism’ in Lanka
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The Tourism Ministry is promoting ‘Religious Tourism’ in Sri Lanka starting with the three main religious ceremonies, Esala Perahara in Kandy, Kataragama Festival and Nallur –Kandaswami Festival in Jaffna, that fall in July and August.
-- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:22:13 AM
FR petition by IDP family: SC grants time to respond
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The Supreme Court on Friday (24) granted time till August 6 for the State to obtain instructions in respect of the Fundamental Rights Petition filed on behalf of a school lady principal who is a patient and her husband and her two minor children who are in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp at Weerapuram, Vavuniya. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:21:49 AM
Nobody to uphold polls laws: UNP
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The UNP yesterday scoffed at the Government blaming the police for the failure on their part to take action against unlawful election malpractices, and asked how election laws could be upheld when there was no independent police commission. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:21:30 AM
No place for APRC meetings
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
All Party Representative Committee (APRC) Chairman Minister Prof. Tissa Vitharana said yesterday that he would meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa seeking arrangements to conduct future meetings since the Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) would no longer facilitate them. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:21:11 AM
Road construction frauds spotlighted: UNP
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The main Opposition UNP charged that Sri Lanka has become the nation where road construction costs are the highest in the whole of Asia.
UNP Galle District MP Gayantha Karunatilleke told a news conference that the cost incurred in constructing one kilometre of a tarred road in Sri Lanka is equivalent to the cost of constructing four kilometres in most other countries in Asia. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:20:54 AM
Workers manning unguarded level crossings protest
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
A large number of persons who had been manning unguarded level crossings around the country staged a protest in front of the Transport Ministry demanding permanent jobs and other benefits as government servants. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:20:35 AM
India to release Tiger suspect
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
India is to release a man suspected to have links with the LTTE after he and several others being held at a detention camp in Chennai staged a week-long indefinite fast protesting against their illegal detention and a lack of basic amenities, the Times of India reported. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:20:05 AM
transport in Jaffna to run on swift wheels
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The Government handed over 54 reconditioned buses to the Northern Sri Lanka Transport Board to strengthen and streamline the public transport service in the peninsula. -- Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:59:57 PM
Issuing of
commemorative stamp
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Colombo Hameed Al Husseinie College will be releasing a Commemorative Stamp today in view of celebrating its 125th anniversary. The function will be held at the A.H.M Fowzie Hall in the college premises at 3.00pm. -- Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:58:58 PM
Roy joins protest against U.K. firm’s mining plan in Orissa
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Booker Prize winning writer Arundhati Roy and British human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger were among a group of high-profile figures who lent their support to a protest held here outside the offices of the mining company, Vedanta Resources, demanding that it withdraw its plans to construct a massive bauxite mine in Orissa. -- Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:51:00 PM
Tiger chief pins hopes on India
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Just days after crowning himself the LTTE leader post-Prabhakaran, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP expressed confidence that India would help Eelam Tamils achieve their aspirations for a separate homeland. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:18:39 AM
Two men found excecuted
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Police say the found two bound and gagged unidentified male bodies with gunshot injuries to the head in Rattanapitiya, Delkanda this morning. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:47:55 AM
Sri Lanka a great place to work- Ram Gopal Varma
Daily Mirror - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Top Indian movie director Ram Gopal Varma says Sri Lanka is a great place to work in and that is why he chose the island as a location for his latest blockbuster horror movie ‘Agyaat’ despite concerns as there was fighting between troops and the LTTE at the time. -- Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:47:18 AM
Ranatunga s secretary promoted
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Interim Committee Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga s secretary has been given a..
Expect surprise from President before SPC polls, says M pala
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The SLFP General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said that the country could expect Preside..
More facilities for resettling of IDPs provided
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Government has provided funds and vehicles to facilitate the well being of thousands of people who f..
Tigers received explosives, aviation gasoline from India
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Although China s Norinco had been the Tigers largest single supplier of arms, including all its art..
Q+A - Can Sri Lanka fulfill agreed econ reforms with IMF?
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $2.6 billion loan for Sri Lanka to help the country..
Face -to-face with a human bomb of Sri Lanka
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
Earlier this year, I found myself seated face-to-face with a would-be suicide bomber, the most dread..
Of children without childhood
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
A schoolgirl`s suicide in Colombo has triggered a public uproar. Caught with a mobile phone in schoo..
Saturday s attack on Masjidul Rahuman Mosque in Beruwela History created as 131 remanded for one incident
Reuters via Yahoo! News - - THU, 30 JUL 2009
For the first time in recent history of the Sri Lankan judiciary, a total of 131 suspects were reman..
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