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 31 Dec (DN) Around 262,000 tourists visited the Peradeniya, Haggala and Gampaha Botanical Gardens up to November this year, Royal Botanical Gardens Director General Dr. Cyril Wijesundara said. He said compared with last year's figures, the number of visitors increased by 3,000. He said around 259,000 tourists visited these three locations in 2012. - See more at:.. |  30 Dec (Island) Economic growth requires enlightened political leadership as well as enlightened policies. There is the traditional folk saying that any peasant farmer whose mud is washed off is fit to be the king. But contrast this saying with the ideas of the ancient Greeks who thought governance of a state requires a philosopher king as stated by Plato. We seem to favor the peasant farmers lacking in modern education to govern us. But modern governance requires an enlightened bureaucracy.. |
 30 Dec (SL) Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena recently declared that the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination would probably be cancelled from 2016 as a result of the 1000 secondary school development project which would, according to him, lessen the need to get into a popular school. The pressure given to students due to the high competition of the examination is being debated constantly among educationalists of the country. However, many do not think that the cancelling the examination.. | |
 30 Dec (SO) The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) was recently vested with National Certification Authority (NCA) powers by a special gazette notification. The gazette establishes ICTA as the Certification Authority for the purpose of the Electronic Transaction Act. ICTA Chairman, Prof. P. W. Epasinghe said, “A unit is being set up within ICTA with the support of the professional expertise available within ICTA and the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) to implement the.. |  30 Dec (SO) Sri Lanka will launch its first nuclear project, a multipurpose gamma radiation plant established and supervised under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), early next month. The acquisition of atomic energy for non-destructive industrial applications had been on the cards since 2006. It was expedited and realised by Technology and Research Minister Champika Ranawaka. The gamma irradiation plant set up in the Biyagama Investment Zone was given its first commercial.. |
 30 Dec (ST) The ‘buwallah’ (octopus) season is upon us and as one drives along the main road beyond Galle, you cannot fail seeing vendors selling this particular delicacy. ”Cooked or fried buwallah is an ideal bite especially when imbibing strong drinks” says D. Siripala a fish monger by occupation. Siripala who switches to selling buwallah during this season said the fishermen from whom he purchases this particular delicacy make their catch when the water is shallow and the waves are calm... |  30 Dec (ST) Chaminda,* a 20-year-old law undergraduate likes to down a couple of drinks when he hangs out with friends. It’s a habit he got into in his late teens, he says. “After exams, we go out to de-stress and sometimes drink till we are down. But anything is an excuse when you want to go out and drink — a celebration, to drown your sorrows, relieve stress,” says Chaminda, for whom drinking is a recreational activity. His early introduction to alcohol is not an isolated incident in a.. |
 30 Dec (Island) More than 440 officers, attached to all prisons, will be moved out next year, Commissioner General of Prisons C. Pallegama said yesterday. He said those transferred were jailers and guards who had served at the same place for over four years and under no circumstances would the transfers be cancelled. Meanwhile, two inmates, one serving a four-year jail term and the other in remand escaped from the Ragama hospital on Saturday, while being treated under heavy guard. .. |  24 Dec (Island) The JVP-led Ceylon Teachers’ Service Union (CTSU) yesterday said it would file legal action against the Education Ministry’s decision to put an end to the Grade V scholarship examination from 2016. CTSU General Secretary Mahinda Jayasinghe told The Island that they would also launch a protest against stopping the Scholarship examination, which was the only chance rural students had to enter popular schools. At a press conference last week, Education Minister Bandula.. |
 24 Dec (DN) Colombo will soon become South Asia's World City. It will be the dynamic centrepiece of a country that is fast achieving its aspiration to be the Wonder of Asia, Secretary Defence and Urban Development Authority, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said. Speaking at the Work in Sri Lanka Conference 2013 on the theme "Sri Lanka's Readiness to Become Asia's Next Knowledge Hub," he said over the next decade, the quality of Colombo's real estate and its skyline will transform dramatically as.. |  24 Dec (DN) The ending of terrorism and the dawn of peace in the North enabled children in the North to reach the apex in the field of education. For the first time in the history of the country, the Northern Province has the largest number of students qualifying for university entrance at the GCE Advanced Level examination. This was revealed at a ceremony held yesterday when students scoring top marks in the 2013 GCE Advanced Level examination called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple.. |
 23 Dec (CI) It was only a matter of time until Pakistan's method yielded a heavy victory in the series. As their batsmen conformed to the blueprint they had laid down in the first two matches, Pakistan hit their second mammoth score in three innings, to sink Sri Lanka by 113 runs. Mohammad Hafeez was again the architect of the victory, shifting from stable at the outset to sublime at the finish on his way to a career-best 140 not out off 136 balls. Following torrid series against South.. |  23 Dec (ST) Two mischievous boys tackle each other to the ground while another dashes madly around the freshly-painted classroom. The girls wait quietly for the teacher to come for lessons. Children will be children, wherever they are. The setting is a school in Mullivaikkal West, a village where intense fighting had driven everyone from their homes not long ago. Lives were shattered, but normalcy is slowly returning. Outside, there is a steady drizzle and the smell of wet earth rises from.. |
 23 Dec (ST) Amidst charges of racketeering, corruption and lack of transparency, discarded engines and bogies have been left to corrode and disintegrate in various railway yards across the country, instead of being recycled or sold as money-spinning scrap iron, the Sunday Times learns. A Railway trade unionist has charged that hundreds and thousands of tons of railway scrap iron worth billions of rupees are lying idle in several premises, including the Colombo Fort Railway Station complex and.. | 23 Dec (ST) The Advanced Level exam results released on Friday showed that three of the top achievers were from the Western Province. According to the results which were released Aditha Weerasiri Dias of Richmond College, Galle came first in Mathematics and Amaya Mahatanthila of Eheliyagoda Madya Maha Vidyalaya was first in the Bio science stream. Methsarani Lokuge of Devi Balika Viyalaya, Colombo was ranked first in the Arts stream and Erandi Kanchana of Rathnavalee Balika Vidyalaya, Gampaha.. |
 23 Dec (ST) Construction of Australian casino mogul James Packer’s “integrated super luxury resort” could start in the first half of 2014 if the Government convinces opponents that the project no longer includes a casino. The same applies to two other resorts (one by business tycoon Dhammika Perera and the other by John Keells Holdings) for which gazettes were published last week. The amended gazettes have omitted the words “gaming activities” and “gaming facilities” but analysts say they raise.. |  23 Dec (ST) Narcotics sleuths from Sri Lanka and Pakistan will visit each other’s capitals to probe one of the biggest heroin hauls in history. The main aim of the detectives will be to unravel drug mafias operating between the two countries and their influential connections. Police Narcotics Bureau Director Kamal Silva said the PNB’s counterparts in Islamabad had confirmed the visit of Pakistani detectives. Police sources said yesterday the visiting detectives would question 43 Pakistanis.. |
| |  19 Dec (Island) The first ever marine radioactivity data map of Sri Lanka would be ready within six months, the Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) said yesterday. National Project Coordinator of the AEA’s Life Sciences Division Vajira A. Waduge told The Island yesterday that the AEA had already completed more than 80 percent of the total project. He added, "We have to complete only around seven places." Waduge said, "Once the sea is calm we will collect the rest of the data and complete the map.. |
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