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All journalists, including Sandaruwan Senadheera of Lanka E news, who are said to have disappeared, are living abroad, government MP Arundika Fernando told Parliament today. […]

Mass Media and Information Ministry Secretary Dr. Charitha Herath It is the view of the President that a comprehensive Code of Ethics for the Media should emerge from ‘within the industry and the Government would only play a supportive role,’ Mass Media and Information Ministry Secretary Dr. Charitha Herath said. […]

Prime Minister  Julia Gillard of Australia told External Affairs Minister Professor G.L. Peiris that she is looking forward to attending the Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka, and that Australia will do everything she can to ensure total success of the event.  She made this observation at a meeting in the Australian Parliament in Canberra on […]

Head of the Legal Studies Department, the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), Yasodhara Kadiragamatambi, was stabbed by a law student at noon yesterday while she was seated at the reception of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. […]

(Reuters) – The Sri Lankan government’s proposed code of ethics for the media is a threat to free speech, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The code calls for censorship of material affecting foreign relations, promoting “anti-national” attitudes or undermining the integrity of the executive, judiciary and legislative branches of the state. […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told a delegation of Sri Lanka Tamil MPs that he was “dismayed” by reports suggesting that Colombo planned to dilute certain key provisions of the 13th Amendment on devolution of powers to provinces ahead of polls to the Northern Provincial Council. […]

No political party or politician has the right to mete out punishment to any member of the teaching profession, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said. The minister was addressing the ‘Arts Competition 2012’ certificate awarding ceremony at Isurupaya yesterday. “No political party can claim a justifiable right to mete out punishment to teachers, and on the […]

DIG Vass Gunawardena has been interdicted with immediate effect, police Spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardenaa said a short while ago. […]

The female student of Colombo University who jumped off the fifth floor of a university building died while receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital. […]

The SLFP Central Committee yesterday decided to sack the UPFA North-Western Provincial Councillor Ananda Sarath Kumara for allegedly humiliating a lady teacher by ordering her to kneel in the presence of students and teachers because she had asked his daughter not wear a short uniform to school. […]

FILE PHOTO Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha has asked that greater attention be paid in the Global Counter Terrorism Strategy, to the role of terrorist support networks that take the form of front organizations, the challenge posed by the abuse of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the propriety of the […]

Colombo District MP Duminda Silva is due to attend Parliamentary sessions tomorrow (18) after 18 months of leave taken with the approval of Parliament, according to government sources. […]

North Western Provincial Council member Ananda Sarath Kumara had allegedly verbally assaulted and forced a female teacher to kneel before him yesterday, for advising his daughter on a disciplinary matter. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was in Kilinochchi today, said elections to the Northern Provincial Council will take place as planned, and that the public will have the opportunity and the independence to select the representatives who will bring further development to the region. […]