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Cabinet approval sought to admit 40 students to Grade 1

November 18, 2015, 8:56 pm
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Cabinet approval sought to admit 40 students to Grade 1

Cabinet approval sought to admit 40 students to Grade 1




From next year the cabinet board approval has been obtained to  increase the number of students to Grade 1 up to 40.


The Minister of Education Akila Viraj Kariyawasam had notified on the 16th instant to  all heads of schools that a petition had been sent to the Supreme court to increase the intake of students to Grade 1 from 35 to 40.

The minister had said this addressing all heads of school the day before yesterday when he met them at a meeting. However he told to adhere to all circulars sent to heads of schools by the Ministry of education until a Supreme court notifies them.

Hence only 35 students to Grade 1 class should be admitted until the ministry gets a communication from Supreme court.

It was decided to accommodate only 35 students to a class in Grade 1 on the advice of the Supreme court. However to increase this number to 40 a petition has been sent to Supreme court by the ministry of education.
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Maithri on a learning curve to commit suicide (Thursday's cartoon)

November 19, 2015, 12:29 am
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Maithri on a learning curve to commit suicide (Thursday's cartoon)
























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Wimal and Gammanpila likely to be left out of the UPFA in next election

November 19, 2015, 12:30 am
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Wimal and Gammanpila likely to be left out of the UPFA in next election

Wimal and Gammanpila likely to be left out of the UPFA in next election




In yesterdays meeting of the committee members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party it has bee unanimously decided not to allow the extremist parties to join under the United  National Freedom Alliance party. This had been disclosed by the deputy secretary of the party Minister Mahinda Amaraweera.


The Minister had disclosed this at  media briefing held at the SLFP headquarters in Colombo.He had added that only those parties who accept the policies of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party would get the opportunity in future to contest under the UPFA ticket.It was also said that those who attempt to break the SLFP into two would not be entertained to contest under UPFA. Minister Sarath Amunugama had commented that this is evident in Parliament that there is no firm united opposition.It was also added that the parties of Members of Parliament Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila had been allowed to form an alliance with the UPFA.Hence they will not be able to contest under the UPFA in the forthcoming provincial and municipal council election.
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All set to present the new budget tomorrow

November 19, 2015, 8:54 am
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All set to present the new budget tomorrow, President double checks with related officials




The first budget of the new national government for the year 2016 is to be presented at the Parliament tomorrow. President Maithripala Sirisena had discussed the finer points of the budget to be presented with the related officials at the Presidential secretariat today.


It is reported that the President had discussed the 2016 budget proposals at length with the related authorities.

The 2016 budget proposals would be read by the Minister of Finance on the 20th instant for the second time.At this meeting Prime Minister Ranil  Wickremasinghe, Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake, Minister of development strategies and international relations Malick Samarawickrema, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Arjun Mahendran and the secretary to the ministry of Finance RHS.Samaratunga and many other related officials had participated.
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While Chairman of Telecom- Mobitel was present Directors transferred

November 19, 2015, 9:02 am
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While Chairman of Telecom- Mobitel was present Directors transferred


While Chairman  of Telecom- Mobitel was present Directors transferred

It is reported that several changes has been  made to the director board of Sri Lanka Telecom PLC. The
new director board has been appointed when the Chairman PG Kumarasinghe Sirisena the brother of the President Maitripala Sirisena was still occupying the post as Chairman.

The persons who have been appointed to the director board of Sri Lanka Telecom are Miss PDC Ekanayake, WKH Wegapitiya, Ms NSA Pieris, JRU de Silva, Chan Chi Beng,Geoffrey Je Blat, Miss Li Chung Yung and Lawrence Paratis .

While to the director board of the Mobitel  some changes have been made.The Chairman PG Kumarasinghe Sirisena.The directors appointed while the Chairman remains same are REU de Silva,KD Geeganage,Miss Li Chung Yung, Lawrence Paratis, Chan Chi Beng and Kanishka Senanayake.
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Rajithala gets a mud bucket from Ranja (Friday's cartoon)

November 19, 2015, 8:29 pm
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Budget at 2 pm special cabinet meeting at 2.30 am today

November 19, 2015, 8:32 pm
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Budget at 2 pm special cabinet meeting at 2.30 am today

Today at 9.30 am a special cabinet meeting is to be held under the leadership of the President Maithripala Sirisena to discuss details of
the propose budget speech to be delivered today at 2 pm in Parliament.

This meeting has been organised to have all facts ready for the budget proposals presented to be passed in Parliament was added by the Minister of Parliament reforms , mass media, and cabinet spokesman Gayantha Karunatilleke. This had been disclosed by the Minister Gayantha Karunatilleke at a media briefing held at the Government news department on the 19th instant.
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Dr Thilanga penalised ,new Chairman appointed to dangerous drugs board

November 19, 2015, 9:21 pm
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Dr Thilanga penalised ,new Chairman appointed to dangerous drugs board

Dr Thilanga penalised, new Chairman appointed to dangerous drugs board




Professor Ravindra Fernando has been appointed as the new Chairman of the National dangerous drugs control board which was subjected to some controversy recently.


The former Chairman of the National dangerous drug control board Dr Tilanga Samarasinghe has quietly left his post it is reported.This National dangerous drug control board is under the purview of the Ministry of Law and Order.The previous Minister Tilak Marapona after the controversy that unfolded had sent a retired deputy Inspector General of Police HM. Sirisena to succeed Dr Thilanga Samarasinghe as the Chairman of the board.

When this matter was informed to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe within a few weeks Professor Ravindra Fernando has been appointed as the new Chairman of the board by the Ministry of Law and Order.
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'Sayonara' of Kuliyapitiya who videoed and displayed sex scenes ....

November 18, 2015, 10:30 am
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'Sayonara' of Kuliyapitiya who videoed and displayed sex scenes ....

'Sayonara' of Kuliyapitiya who videoed and displayed sex scenes ....

by renting rooms to lovers .... caught!

The younger generation of present days are clever in starting various types of new businesses and
thus earn a good sum of money. A youth had been carrying on a lodging-house in Kuliyapitiya by the name of 'Sayonara' and he had launched a new type of business. What he had done was not only renting out rooms to young lovers in the form of couples at his lodging-place, he had even gone to the extent of securing scenes of what happened in the rooms with the aid of a high quality CCTV camera fixed in a secret manner unknown to the occupants after which he had made further earnings by displaying the videos to outsiders.

Various types of young men and women had been frequenting this lodging-place in Kuliyapitiya area daily and having been spending several hours there and engaging in erotic behaviour, it was learned. The owner of this lodging-place who turn these scenes into high quality videos apart from enjoying it himself had used to separate the best parts of the videos and after editing those into half-hour parts would then flash them on a wide screen and had been displaying them in a secret mini-cinema erected close to the said lodging-place itself. He had been engaged in this activity for a long period of time.

Another category of youngsters who had made it their enjoyment of viewing these scenes through the key-hole had been frequenting this mini-cinema daily and they had become a part of the audience where they had paid Rs. 300 for half-hour and Rs. 500 for the one hour category and this activity had been going on at full swing. The owner of the lodging-house had refused transferring these video clips to a pen drive, computer or mobile phone for the reason that the business would go haywire as a result. It is learned that the individual who had been involved in running this lodging-house was known among most people as Kasun Aiya.

The audience of the Kuliyapitiya mini-cinema would from time to time call the lodging-house owner and enquire asking, "Kasun Aiya ... aren't there new pieces?" to which Kasun Aiya would respond giving the date and time when the new piece is to be exhibited and it has been reported that the youngsters would lie to their home people and come over to this cinema to see these scenes. However this entertainment had struck a wrong note because of a certain incident that took place one day. It is reported that this spot was cornered by the police as a result of a mishap faced by a member of the audience in the process of viewing a video. This mishap was that he came to see with his own two eyes that in one of the scenes of the video he was watching surprised him to see that a young girl in one of the scenes was none other than a sister of his. The brother who was enraged at this had requested the lodging-house owner Kasun Aiya to remove that video to which he had given a deaf ear. It was after that Dinesh Asanka better known as Kasun Aiya  who maintained this lodging-house known as 'Sayonara' at Anandagiri Gardens in Kuliyapitiya was taken into custody by the police.

After having been produced before Kuliyapitiya Magistrate though was given bail the following day under severe conditions, its license was cancelled by the magistrate so that the business could not be carried on any further. A large section of young members of the audience who had been visiting this lodging-place in Kuliyapitiya had fallen into serious inconvenience because of these video scenes and it has been reported that they have been now gripped with fear under these circumstances.
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Opportunity now to view traffic on the roads in Sri Lanka .... live

November 18, 2015, 10:33 am
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Opportunity now to view traffic on the roads in Sri Lanka .... live

Opportunity now to view traffic on the roads in Sri Lanka .... live

It has been a customary habit of most persons of Sri Lanka to capture information about roads in
Sri Lanka, its distance and various places across the Google Map feature offered by the Google Company. Though information could be obtained through this map about the roads located upto now, no information has been reported about the traffic as such. But the latest welcoming news is that it is now possible to get information about traffic congestion on the roads through the Google Map. Because of this new information one is able to get his or her work attended to at the earliest by observing roads that do not get caught to traffic congestion as such. This traffic congestion is live and is something tentative. In a technological sense this traffic congestion is measured by an Android Smart mobile phone which moves along those roads and is connected to the internet. If the traffic congestion remains at some road with extra phones remaining at one location, that particular data is conveyed to the Google Map across Android which is a Google Mobile Phone directing system and then a red hue is displayed indicating that there is a congestion. If the congestion happens to be less; it is indicated by the colour green.




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Saudi Courts decides to stone mother of two ....

November 19, 2015, 10:29 am
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Saudi Courts decides to stone mother of two ....

because of illicit affair

Riyadh Courts in Saudi Arabia has ordered that a Sri Lankan woman who has gone to Saudi Arabia as a house-maid was found guilty of sexual intimacy and
that she be stoned to death. The said woman was a resident of Maradana and a mother of 2 children and she had gone to work as a house-maid in Saudi a few years before.

She had got involved with another Sri Lankan youth employed in Saudi and she had admitted guilty to that offence in courts of that country. It was for that reason that it was decided to stone her to death according to Saudi Law. It is understood that the young man concerned too has been subjected by Saudi Courts to 100 lashes. It was reported that Minister of Foreign Employment Mrs. Thalatha Athukorala has made an appeal to Saudi Government to abate the punishment sentenced to her. Prior to this the Saudi Government had decided to take the life of the child Rizana Nafeek and the Sri Lankan Government was not successful in preventing the sentence until she was prosecuted in a similar manner.
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Kurunegala distribution of motor cycles ceremony postponed owing to Akila, Dayasiri conflicts

November 19, 2015, 8:40 pm
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Kurunegala distribution of motor cycles ceremony postponed owing to Akila, Dayasiri conflicts

The Kurunegala district authorities have decided to postpone the ceremony that was organised for the distribution of motor cycles for the
government graduates in Kurunegala  indefinitely. The reason for postponing this ceremony had been owing to the differences the two heavyweight ministers of the Kurunegala district Akila Viraj Kariyawasam and Dayasiri Jayasekera who had tried to favour the recipients of their choice.

It is reported that the government  graduates members of the previous government and the present government had been vying for this facility and it has revealed that politicisation of this event had led it to be postponed indefinitely.

It had revealed the  politicians had tried to derive political advantage in this instance. The motor cycles were to be given free was said earlier but  it is learnt now that a sum close to rupees one lakh has to be paid by each recipient.

In this regard the government graduate employees have requested the Divisional Secretary to distribute the motor cycles devoid of political affiliations to them.
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Saturday holiday for private sector employees, Salary increase of Rs 2500/-

November 19, 2015, 8:43 pm
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Saturday holiday for private sector employees, Salary increase of Rs 2500/-

In the budget speech made by the Minister of finance RaviKarunanayake ,has requested the private sector not to work on
Saturdays in order to get the maximum output  from  employees by working five days for a week.

The Minister also has requested the employers in the private sector to  attempt to increase the salaries by a sum of rupees two thousand five hundred if they had not done it earlier.
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The list of consumer items reduced from the budget

November 19, 2015, 8:46 pm
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The list of consumer items reduced from the budget

In the budget proposals presented to the Parliament by the Minister of Finance  of Finance Ravi Karunanayke it was proposed that the
retail items of many consumer items will have to reduced.

The import tax od potatoes have been reduced by Rs 25/-Hence  a kilo of potatoes would be between Rs 75/- to Rs 80/-

The import tax of big onions to have been reduced by Rs 25/.Hence the prices of big onions should range from Rs 85/- Rs 90/-

Infant milk powder to be reduced by Rs 100/-

The price of Kg of gram  should be not more than Rs 169/-

The "Katta dry fish" should be not more than Rs 1100/-

The maximum selling price of Kg of "Salaya" fish should be Rs 425/-

Canned Tin fish  weighing 425 grams has been reduced to Rs125/-

Inland milk powder of a packet 400 gram would be Rs 295/-

A gas cylinder 12.5 Kg will have to be reduced by Rs 150/

Controlled price of a Kg of dhal fixed at Rs 169/-

Kerosene oil reduced by Rs 10/-
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Finer details of budget proposals could be verified by phoning

November 19, 2015, 8:50 pm
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Finer details of budget proposals  could be verified by phoning

Some telephone numbers have been made public to enable for anyone who needs any clarifications made on the budget proposals read out in the Parliament by the Minister of Finance Ravi
Karunanayake.


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Gazette notification on prices of consumer items to be withdrawn?

November 20, 2015, 1:00 am
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Gazette notification on prices of consumer items  to be withdrawn? 

The gazette notification that was issued by the Ministry of Industries and commercial affairs on the subject of the maximum charges on retail sales that could be tagged on 06 consumer items
issued on the 18th instant without the knowledge of the consumer affairs authority.In this regard discussions are in progress to withdraw this gazette.

It is said that a gazette notification of such a notice has to be made with the signature of the Chairman of the consumer affairs authority and at it has to be discussed with him.As this had not been done the Chairman of the consumer affairs authority RKM. Ratnayake has even threatened to resign from his post it is reported.
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Budget reduces the prices of 10 consumer durables, milk powder reduced by Rs 30/-

November 20, 2015, 1:04 am
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Budget reduces the prices of 10 consumer durables, milk powder reduced by Rs 30/- 

The budget proposals for year 2016 is to be presented in Parliament this afternoon.It is reported that the prices of a number of consumer items are to be reduced and it is
reported that the milk powder is to be reduced by Rs 30/-

It is reported that  the prices of 10 essential items are to be reduced. It is learnt that on account of fertilizer subsidy the farmers are to be given vouchers instead.

The budget proposals for the ear 2016 are to be presented this afternoon by the Minister of Fiancé Ravi Karunanayake in Parliament.
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Mahinda should be brought back to power-Somawansa

November 20, 2015, 1:22 am
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Mahinda should be brought back to power-Somawansa

Mahinda should be brought back to power-Somawansa

The former leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and the founder leader of the new
party,"Janatha Sevaka Pakshaya",Somawasna Amerasinghe has added to a daily newspaper that in the context of the position in the country when roots are developing to divide the country it is appropriate that the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa be given to rule the country again.

Somawansa Amerasinghe had reiterated that Mahinda Rajapaksa  when he was the President was able to defeat terrorism and the attempts to divide the country and as there are attempts that this situation is to erupt again and it is appropriate that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is brought back to power to combat this threat as he is the only leader who is suitable for it.

Somawansa Amerasinghe who joined hands with Wimal Weerawansa had expressed these views to the daily newspaper. According to him the country has fallen into a precipice and to save the country is to form a united opposition he has added further.
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Before the budget the prices of Highland milk powder, butter and yoghurt increased

November 20, 2015, 2:25 am
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Before the budget the prices of Highland milk powder, butter and yoghurt increased 

It is reported that the prices of milk powder, butter and yoghurt  manufactured by the government owned Milco Company has raised the prices even before the budget.

The Highland butter has been increased from Rs 290.- for a 200 gram packet to Rs 340/- while a yoghurt which was sold for Rs 30/- has been increased to Rs 35/- while  a 400 gram milk packet sold for Rs 310/ earlier has been increased to Rs 320/-
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Petrol scarcity on the morning of the budget day

November 20, 2015, 3:27 am
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Petrol scarcity on the morning of the budget day

Petrol scarcity on the morning of the budget day

It is reported from several areas around Colombo that there had been a scarcity of Octane 92 type petrol in the petrol stations on the morning of the budget day.

The consumers are of the opinion that it may be that a increase in the prices of petrol is anticipated by the budget hence in order to store petrol by the owners of petrol sheds this ploy may have been deployed.

Hence in many petrol stations there had been a congestion as consumers had opted to fill their tanks it is reliably reported.
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