Validity of school uniform vouchers extended

Arthur C Clarke’s DNA in space

NASA is planning to send the DNA of famed British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke into space – five years after his death,?the Press Trust of India reported. The author of the novel ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ died in 2008 in Sri Lanka, and now NASA scientists have announced plans to send his DNA into orbit around the Sun in 2014 aboard the Sunjammer, a solar-powered spacecraft which gets its name from the writings of Clarke. Called the Sunjammer Cosmic Archive (SCA), the flying time caps

21 Jun, 2013

UNP proposal given to SLFP

The opposition United National Party (UNP) today handed over its proposals for a new constitution to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). A UNP delegation including UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake and UNP MP Ravi Karunanayake handerd over the proposals to SLFP General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena. The UNP had last month made public its proposed constitution which includes a British style Westminster system for the Cabinet. The UNP constitution also proposes as a novel system the executiv

21 Jun, 2013

PSC will deal with 13A

President Mahinda Rajapaksa says the proposed Parliament Select Committee will deal with the changes that need to be made to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. He also insisted that the Indo-Lanka accord of 1987 has not been violated by the government nor has India indicated anything to Sri Lanka to that effect. The President also said that the scheduled visit of Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon to Sri Lanka next month is to discuss regional security issues and not the 13t

21 Jun, 2013