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President tells
Global Symposium:
ICT should harmonize with values
The wonders of
ICT should not alienate our children
from what is best in their culture
and traditional values, President
Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. He
said it should also not be a tool to
sow hatred and which pays no heed to
the values of decency, tolerance and
humanity.
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GL at United
Nations General Assembly:
Developing nations require
greater focus
Sri Lanka
believes that in the settlement of
international disputes, action must
be based on the fundamental
principle of sovereign equality of
states, a principle firmly enshrined
in the United Nations Charter,
External Affairs Minister Prof. G.
L. Peiris said. The External Affairs
Minister was addressing the 67th
Session of the UN General Assembly,
yesterday.
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Colombo Science
Faculty lectures resume:
Lecturers turn up in their
numbers
The Colombo
University Science Faculty lectures
for the final year students
commenced yesterday, Colombo
University Vice Chancellor Prof.
Kshanika Hirimburegama said.
Considering requests received from
science faculty students and Higher
Education Ministry initiatives to
recommence academic activities,
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Maldivian ruling party MP killed
in capital
An unidentified
attacker stabbed and killed a
Maldivian ruling party legislator
Tuesday in the first killing of a
lawmaker in the Indian Ocean
archipelago, police said. Afrasheem
Ali, 46, a lawmaker from the
Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM),
was attacked on the steps of his
apartment in the capital island Male
early Tuesday,
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Walallawita Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Udeni Atukorala was arrested by Bribery Commission officials for allegedly soliciting a Rs 1.5 million bribe from the Bentara Paradeshiya Sabha chairman. It is reported that he had accepted the bribe to provide a permit to transport soil. 
