Private bus operators say they will not be providing free transport for students sitting for the GCEAdvanced Level examination. President of their association Gamunu Wijeratnerejected a claim to that effect by education ministerBandula Gunawardena at a media briefing yesterday (July 26). The minister said the students should produce their exam passes to get free transport during the examination that takes [...]
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Deputy Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Berlin, Major General Jagath Dias said the war could have been finished earlier but due to external and internal pressures, it could not be achieved till 2009. Former General Officer Commanding of the 57th Division of the Sri Lanka Army Major General addressing a gathering during his visit to [...]
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The SL government claims that the United States has gone bankrupt and this was the real reason behind a reason decision to stop aid to the island. Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that the US government is facing a severe shortage of funds and may face another economic crisis. He also said that claims that an [...]
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The Sri Lankan government says yet another video aired by Britain’s Chanel 4 television, this time interviewing soldiers who were allegedly on the battlefield, is a fake. Deputy permanent representative of Sri Lanka to the UN Brigadier Shavendra Silva said the video was false and orchestrated by Chanel 4. He said this when he was [...]
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A 42 year old woman was arrested from Puttalam after a seven year old boy was discovered in her house bound by a chain. Police stated that the arrest was made after a tip-off that a schoolboy was seen shackled at the suspect’s house was received. Upon investigation it was revealed that the woman was [...]
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Students sitting for the GCE Advanced Level examinations would be able to use private buses free of charge by showing their admission card from August 8 – September 3, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said today.
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A Tamil refugee claimant who arrived off Canada’s West Coast aboard the MV Sun Sea has been ordered deported over allegations he committed a war crime in his home country of Sri Lanka. The migrant, who can’t be identified, appeared before the Immigration and Refugee Board in April, and a written decision was issued this [...]
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The ruling AIADMK,led by chief minister Jayalaitha is mighty thrilled at the U.S. congressional committee voting to ban aid to Sri Lanka pending ‘accountability’ over atrocities in the final phase of the Eelam war, The Asian Age reported. Scores of AIADMK seniors, including ministers, have issued big advertisements in Tamil newspapers in Tuesday hailing the American [...]
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Family members of a soldier from a Sri Lankan elite force suspect foul play over the death of their loved one. The mother of a Special Task Force (STF) soldier, whose body was exhumed on Tuesday called upon the Sri Lanka military not to harm the lives of soldiers. Court order Twenty year old STF [...]
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The Sri Lankan police said on Tuesday that they are on the hunt for more than 20 local television actresses who are believed to be part of a prostitution ring. Over the past few weeks, police have arrested four actresses who were involved in prostitution at various locations in Colombo and areas most frequented by [...]
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Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer and the former captain of the Sri Lanka nationalcricket team took off for Jaffna from Katunayake on a Helitours Antanov 32 flight yesterday (25th July 2011). Sangakkara will participate in the 25th day of the ‘Trail’, a fund raising walk to build a children’s cancer ward in Jaffna, from the ‘Mirusuwil check point to the [...]
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Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera says the phrase ‘patriots’, introduced by the JHU, is now being used against his party by companies in the agrochemical business. “These companies have good organizational strategies. When we highlighted the issue of the arsenic content in paddy we were accused of being part of “wheat flour terrorism,” he has said. The prelate was giving an [...]
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Minister Wimal Weerawansa Kaduwela UPFA Group Leader G.H. Buddhadasa yesterday lashed out at Minister Wimal Weerawansa, accusing him of parachuting into the area and violating various election laws. Mr. Buddhadasa who won the largest number of preferential votes and hopes to become the Mayor of Kaduwela charged that Minister Weerawansa had abused state vehicles and other [...]
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Responding to government accusations that there were economic assassins in the country, the United National Party said yesterday that these economic assassins were within the government itself. Addressing a media briefing in Colombo yesterday, UNP Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekera said that the public should not be made to pay a single cent of the ill-fated hedging [...]
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