Protesting against private medical college unethical - Minister S.B. Dissanayake

Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake said Sri Lanka has many private tertiary education institutions offering degree certificates and therefore it is not ethical for the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) or any other party to protest against the setting up of private medical colleges which will help the country produce more doctors in future. According to Higher Education Ministry reports, over seven tertiary education institutions operate in the country...

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Marine drive to be extended to Panadura

The newly constructed marine drive from Kollupitiya junction to Wellawatte will be extended to Panadura from January next year. According to the Ministry of Highways, construction work on the first phase between Wellawatte and Moratuwa will be completed soon to ease the heavy traffic congestion. At present motorists take over 70 minutes to reach either destination. Deputy Ports and Highways Minister Nirmala Kotalawala told the Sunday Observer that a marine drive from...

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Mervyn Silva intervenes to prevent animal sacrifice

Public Relations and Public Affairs Minister Mervyn Silva took it upon himself to release the animals prepared to be sacrificed at the Sri Bhadra Kali Amman Kovil in Munneswaram, Chilaw today (September 13). Following the court order temporarily suspending the annual ritual, Minister Silva stated he would personally transport the animals to animal farms. (Pic by Jude Samantha)  Source - Ada Dera...

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Singapoor Maid takes sexy photos on employer's bed

After reading the recent horror story about a maid who put menstrual blood in her employers' soup, one employer did a spot check on her maid's Facebook page. She was shocked when she saw a photo of her Filipino maid posing suggestively on the bed in the master bedroom. The employer deduced that the photo was taken by another person, which meant that her maid was allowing strangers into the house while everyone was at work. The concerned employer sent the photos to citizen journalism...

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Jobless man in Singapoor jailed for entering female toilet, peeping at student

An unemployed man was jailed for three weeks on Friday for trespassing into a female toilet and insulting modesty. Foo Sai Teck, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal trespass at the female toilet of CPA House at Aljunied Road and to peeping at a 17-year-old student through a gap between the door and the floor of a cubicle last month. A Community Court heard that on Aug 3, he went to a female toilet on the fifth level of the building and stayed in the last cubicle. Later, a 22-year-old...

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Facebook Accused of Publishing Partner’s Passwords

Another person is currently claiming a stake in Zuckerberg's Facebook fortune: someone named Paul Ceglia recently claimed that the social “not-working behemoth” had used some underhand tactics in the company’s legal defense. Paul Ceglia said that he used to have a contract that would have undoubtedly made him a Facebook partner eight years ago. Ceglia is now claiming that the social network’s hired hands from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for some reason included his personal passwords...

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Yahoo Fired Its CEO

Yahoo is reported to fire its CEO Carol Bartz by phone. If some of you remember, she was hired with great fanfare, and the move was targeted at saving the search giant from obscurity. Nevertheless, she didn’t do a lot, except making a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo has recently released a statement, saying that Bartz had been “removed” from her position. The post will be taken by Timothy Morse, chief financial officer, for now. Yahoo will then be looking for someone else. According to...

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Married couple drowns in Pottuvil

A married couple drowned in Paanama area in Pottuvil today (September 9) morning while fishing in the Panagala lagoon, Police Spokesman SP Prishantha Jayakoddy stated. The bodies of the two victims have been found and are awaiting the post mortem examinations...

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Excise OIC arrested with ganja haul

The officer in charge (OIC) of the Excise Department Hambantota office has been arrested while transporting a stock of marijuana. The batch of illicit drugs was discovered by police officers at a security checkpoint in the Udawalawe area in Thanamalwila upon inspection of a cab. Police state that 111kg of powdered ganja and 131kg of dried ganja were found concealed in the vehicle.It has been reported that suspect in question had been taken into custody by a police team including the...

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Colombo-Badulla railway services disrupted

A lorry has toppled on the railway line between Diyathalawa and Bandarawela disrupting railway services along the Badulla-Colombo line.  The control center of the Sri Lanka Railway Department informed that due to the disruption trains starting from Colombo would only travel to Diyathalawa.Trains starting from Badulla might be delayed. The center said. ...

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Cargills gets CB approval to set up new bank

Cargill's had started as Milne, Cargill, and Company, but Milne soon retired to Glasgow, while Cargill had other interests, including Burmah Oil.  Long registered in Glasgow.Cargills ws sold to Sri Lankans in 1946, but they chose to keep the Cargill's name.  The Central Bank has issued a provisional letter of approval to Cargills Ceylon PLC to establish a new commercial bank in Sri Lanka, a stock exchange filing said. It said the application for a banking license...

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Lankan govt. expresses its sorrow over New Delhi bomb attack

Minister of Irrigation and Water Supply, Nimal Siripala De Silva expressed in Parliament today (September 7) the Sri Lankan government’s sorrow regarding the bomb blast in new Delhi which killed nine people and injured...

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Private bus operators on 9 routes on strike

Private bus operators on nine routes including Gampaha-Colombo, Kadawatha-Fort, Nittambuwa-Colombo are currently on strike following a permit issue, President of Lanka Private Bus Owners’ Association Gemunu Wijeratne said. ...

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Sexual assault in bus

  A man who had allegedly sexually harassed a Japanese woman while she was travelling in a bus near Union Place, Colombo 2 was remanded till September 12 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate today. The Japanese woman complaining to the Slave Island police, accused a person who stood beside her in the bus of touching her in an inappropriate manner. She had further told police that she was a resident of Kammachi in Japan and arrived in Sri Lanka for a short holiday tour. The suspect was...

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Sri Lanka to woo 2.5 million tourists by 2016

Sri Lanka on Monday set an ambitious target of attracting 2.5 million foreign holiday-makers in the next five years, as the island nation emerges from decades of war.“We had 650,000 tourists last year, but this year we crossed the 500,000 mark in the first eight months alone,” tourism chief Nalaka Godahewa said. “We have set a target of attracting 2.5 million tourists by 2016.”Sri Lanka Tourism, the main regulatory authority for the tourism sector, said it will streamline approvals and seek...

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Lankans stealing abandoned cars in Dubai

Six men — four Sri Lankans and two Syrians — have been accused of forming a gang that specialised in stealing cars that had been abandoned by their owners on the streets of Dubai for months.Prosecutors said the six men would search for deserted cars that had Dubai Municipality warning notices on their windshields.Then they would wash the cars before breaking the locks open, cutting new keys and driving off, reported Gulf News.When the defendants appeared before the Dubai Court of First...

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President orders strict action against child rapists

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed to take the strictest actions against the perpetrators involved in the raping of a 10-year-old girl at an examination center in Matara, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena told Parliament today.Media revealed recently that an alleged air force deserter, two examination officers had sexually molested a 10-year-old school girl at Thelijjawila, Matara while the victim had visited the school with her mother for cleaning duties.The examination officers...

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Car lock – do it from the door control!!

  How to Lock Your Car and Why ? I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times .. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation. I quickly chucked the errand I...

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No CCTV cameras for Jaffna

There is no truth to the reports that Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) cameras are to be installed in the Jaffna city, Jaffna Security Forces Commander Major General Mahinda Hathurusingha said today (September 5).No such decision has been taken, he told Ada Derana completely refuting media reports that a CCTV camera system is to be implemented in Jaffna for security purpos...

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Test 52 Tsunami early warning towers today

The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) is to test 52 Tsunami early warning towers today between 9am and 4pm, public advised not to panic. They would be tested via VHF frequencies and the test would  be carried out in ten districts according  the ...

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Minister Champika Ranawaka is to take legal action...

Minister Champika Ranawaka is to take legal action seeking Rs.500 million in damages against Operations Committee member of CEB Joint Trade Union Alliance, Ranjan Jayalal for tarnishing his credibility and reputation and also media institutions for publishing false statements.Mr. Jayalal at a press conference on August 29 had claimed that a bed was purchased for Rs.80,000 and transported to Kataragama all the way from Colombo for Patali Champika Ranawaka.In a statement issued today (September...

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Sri Lankan Student Fined for posting naked pictures of ex-girlfriend on YouTube

  Two foreign students, both 20, met, fell in love and broke up. However, Sri Lankan Mohamed Ansar Mohamed Azeem could not get over it and posted revealing pictures of his ex-girlfriend on YouTube and called her a slut. Under the law, this is criminal intimidation and, on Monday, he was fined $2,000. He was fined another $20,000 for having 287 obscene films stored in his laptop. The ex-student of the Singapore Institute of Management...

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Reply video to Channel 4 unvails today..

  Life upon head, the short film made as a reply to channel 4 video is screening at "Newyork UNO Darnhamsherjolmy" hall.American Inner City Press organization has filed a request in UN to abort this screening time.But the UN secretory Ban Ki Moon has rejected the request. This request was made by Mathew Russelly of Inner City Pre...

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10 Things Some People Don't Know About Albert Einstein

  10. Loved to Sail When Einstein attended college at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, he fell in love with sailing. He would often take a boat out onto a lake, pull out a notebook, relax, and think. Even though Einstein never learned to swim, he kept sailing as a hobby throughout his life.   9. Einstein's Brain When Einstein died in 1955, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered, as was his wish. However, before his body was cremated, pathologist Thomas...

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9 facts still hidden from us

        9 facts still hidden from us   1) 90% of people in Australia don't drink milk.   2) Snake's vision is up to 5 km....   3) A man can touch sun if his body is completely surrounded by mercury.   4) No twins have been born up till now in Greenland ....

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