Majority Of New University Entrants Arrived For Leadership Training Programme

Majority of the new University entrants had today arrived for the Military Bases island wide to participate the three week leadership training programme scheduled to commenced tomorrow(23) according to the Higher Education Ministry Sources.The Ministry Sources have said that by this eve around 80 percent of the students who are selected for the Universities arrived at respective Military Bases selected for this Programme .

These students were arrived with their parents despite the appeal of few political parties to the students parents for not to send their children for this training what they called as a Military Training.However Both the Higher Education Ministry and the Minister S.B Dissanayake denied the accusations and said that the aim of this programme is to develop positive thinking and good attitudes among the New University Entrants.

Sri Lankan Embassy In Oslo To Track The Developments Of Nediyawan Case

The Ministry Of External Affairs has asked the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo to keep track of the developments on  probe against LTTE leader Perinpanayagam Sivaparan allias Nediyawan who was detained by Norway few days back.

Nediyawan was detained and produced before the Court in Oslo where he was summoned for the allegations that the LTTE extorted Tamils in abroad by threatening to harm their relatives in Sri Lanka.Nediyawan who is a Norwegian Resident is believed as the current leader of  LTTE following the death of former leader Valupillai Prabhakaren last year.

Higher Education Ministry To Conduct Leadership Training Programme For University Students

The Leadership Training Programme organized for New University Entrants will go a head as scheduled from 23rd of May onwards despite the strong opposition against the government organized workshop the Minister Of Higher Education S.B Dassanayake has said today.

Norway Based LTTE Leader Nediyawan Got Arrested

Norway based LTTE Leader Perinpanayagam allias Nediyawan has been arrested by the Norwegian Police and produced before the Court in Norwegian Capital Oslo on Wednesday and Thursday according to the Norwegian Media Reports.

The Dutch Authorities including a Dutch Judge and five Dutch Defense  Attorneys are now in Norway to question Nediyawan who is a Norwegian Resident claimed as the leader of the LTTE.He is to be questioned for two days according to the Media Reports.The Dutch Authorities came to Norway to question Nediyawan on an investigations on terrorist finance case in Netherlands, where seven Tamil tigers got arrested last year.

During the Police operations a Chief Accountant of the LTTE and the the leader of LTTE in Netherlands too got arrested.

Public Health Inspectors Warned 650 Dan Sal Organizers On Preparing unhygienic Food

The Public Health Inspectors Association has identified around 650 Alms Giving Centers known as "Dan Sals" set up  island wide on behalf of  the "Wesak" day Celebrations yesterday,  on preparing  unhygienic food for distributing among the public.The Public Health Inspectors were raided around 1120 "Dan Sals" throughout the island yesterday and found more then 50 percent of this total that is around 650 Dan Sals were prepared unhygienic food for consumption.

The Public Health Inspectors have already warned those 650 Dan Sal organizers on preparing an unhygienic food.

First Sri Lankan Female Chief Justice Sworn In

 Sri Lanka's  first female Supreme Court Judge Dr.Shirani Bandaranayake has sworn ed in as the first Sri Lankan female Chief Justice before President Mahinda Rajapaksha this morning .

The 53 year old Dr.Bandaranayake has sworned in as the new Chief Justice following the mandatory retirement of former Chief Justice Asoka De Silve in May 2011.Dr.Bandaranayake had previously  served 11 times as  acting Chief Justice according to the legal sources.

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Former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Sangakkara To Deliver Collin Cowdry Lecture At Lords

Former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara has become the first international activate cricketer to deliver the Collin Cowdrey Lecture at Lords in England on 04th of July as he is invited to deliver the Lecture.This lecture which is inaugurated in 2001 is delivered in the memory of former England Cricketer Collin Cowdry.

Sangakkara has also become the first Sri Lankan to deliver the Cowdry Lecture at lords and the lecture was scheduled to held a day after the Sri Lankan Cricket Team played a one day international in lords against the hosts England.The former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Sangakkara is the youngest ever cricketer to deliver the lecture following the former Australian Cricketer Adam Gilchrist who delivered the lecture in the year 2009.Former English Cricketer Geoffry Boycott,Former Pakistani Captain Imran Khan and South African Activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu were amongst the famous people who delivered this lecture in the past.

Announcing the selection of Sangakkara to deliver this  years Collin Cowdry lecture the MCC President Christopher Martin-Jenkins has  said: that Sri Lanka have been so consistently successful in world cricket and it is very appropriate that a distinguished cricketer from this beautiful country should be giving the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdry lecture.