Students clash over Valentine’s Day pandal at J’pura University
A dispute over a pandal erected for Valentine’s Day led to a clash between students of Sri Jayewardenepura University in the early hours of this morning (15), police said.
A dispute over a pandal erected for Valentine’s Day led to a clash between students of Sri Jayewardenepura University in the early hours of this morning (15), police said.
Half of the postal ballot papers required for the local government polls had already been printed by the time work had been suspended, claimed a trade union in the Government Press.
Twenty officials from the United States led by a top diplomat arrived at Katunayake airport last evening (14) in two US Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster-III planes, Neth News reports.
The Election Commission (EC) says postal ballot papers cannot be issued tomorrow (15) for the March 09 local government polls.
Disrupting functions of the Election Commission is a punishable offence, said JJB executive committee member Sunil Handunnetti.
Several retired deputy election commissioners are to be appointed toserve in the Election Commission, highly placed government sources said.
The president should be given at least another six months to stabilize the country, after which any election could be held, said a senior leader of the UNP, Navin Dissanayake.
Postal voting for the March 09 local government polls has been postponed indefinitely, said the Election Commission.
A website (kumananimages.com) presenting the works of Tamil photojournalist Kanapathipillai Kumanan was launched at Mullaitivu Press Club today (14).
The Tamil language ‘Nethra TV’ channel of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation will be expanded to cover the entire island, said SLRC director general Asanga Jayalath.