Railway guards to go on strike over salary anomalies

Three local councils dissolved

The government today dissolved the North Central, Sabaragamuwa and Eastern Provincial councils through a gazette notification, the government information department said. The gazette was issued last night dissolving the three councils with effect from today, a year before the scheduled day the term of the three councils end. Elections for the three councils are expected to take place in September this year. The elections will be seen as a referendum on the government at a time when the cost o

28 Jun, 2012

Ceylon Today Editor hits out

The Editor of the Ceylon Today newspaper Hana Ibrahim has hot out at the allegations raised over the termination of the service of ?Director Editorial and Editor-in-Chief, Lalith Allahakkoon and the subsequent resignation of four other journalists recently. In an Editorial, a cop of which was emailed to the Colombo Gazette by the newspaper, Ibrahim said that?there had been round condemnation and prompt judgment delivered by the media fraternity and others based on one-sided information followin

27 Jun, 2012

Over 2000 physically disabled in Jaffna

An estimated 2000-3000 people are physically disabled in Jaffna out of a registered population of 600,000 people, official statistics revealed. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that overall some 10 to 15 percent of the people in the north of Sri Lanka are physically disabled and this is attributed to illness, accidents, birth defects and the ethnic conflict. The ICRC is collaborating with the Jaffna Jaipur Centre for Disability Rehabilitation to help the physically disa

27 Jun, 2012