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By Saman Indrajith Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday said that the economic and democratic cooperation between Sri Lanka and India, both now and in the past, was significant. Addressing the All India Presiding Officers Conference (AIPOC), organised by the Indian Lok Sabha through video technology, the Speaker said: “Parliament of Sri Lanka is the oldest […]
By Rathindra Kuruwita The demands of principals and teachers should be granted before the government re-opens the schools, Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) says. CTU General Secretary Joseph Stalin told The Island yesterday that the Secretary to the Ministry of Education had said the ministry would use alternative methods to collect GCE AL applications. Usually, it […]
Removal of civilian doctors from Army Hospital By Rathindra Kuruwita The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) Executive Committee yesterday appointed a five-member committee to prepare an MoU to be signed between the Ministries of Defence and Health and the GMOA about the working conditions of civilian doctors attached to the Army Hospital, Narahenpita. The GMOA […]
By Norman Palihawadane The Catholic Church yesterday called on the government Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Ven. Galagodaatte Gnasara Thera’s recent claim that another carnage was being planned. Addressing the media at the Bishop House in Colombo, Member of the church’s communications committee on the Easter Sunday Attacks, Rev. Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando said that […]
By Rathindra Kuruwita Sri Lanka was still in the middle of the pandemic, but the situation was likely to improve after January 2022, Dr. Manuj C. Weerasinghe, Head Department of Community Medicine, University of Colombo said yesterday. “Since April 2021, we have been facing the third wave of the pandemic. We haven’t really come out […]