A TV journalist who opposed Minister Mervyn Silva’s intrusion and abuse of a colleague at Rupavahini, the national television network, escaped murder on Friday night when he was attacked by two unidentified thugs on his way home after work.
The proposed interim council for the Northern Province, to be set up next week, will be a de facto Provincial Council, a Cabinet Minister declared last night.“The administrative structure for such a council already exists. What is lacking is the political leadership,” Jaffna District parliamentarian ......
Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva on Friday ordered Police to pull down all illegal sign boards of speed limits put up on main roads as hapless motorists were being forced to either face prosecution or pay bribes to the police to get away.
A TV journalist who opposed Minister Mervyn Silva’s intrusion and abuse of a colleague at Rupavahini, the national television network, escaped murder on Friday night when he was attacked by two unidentified thugs on his way home after work.
The proposed interim council for the Northern Province, to be set up next week, will be a de facto Provincial Council, a Cabinet Minister declared last night.“The administrative structure for such a council already exists. What is lacking is the political leadership,” Jaffna District parliamentarian ...... 
Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva on Friday ordered Police to pull down all illegal sign boards of speed limits put up on main roads as hapless motorists were being forced to either face prosecution or pay bribes to the police to get away.