A victim of yesterday’s shooting incident by UNF supporters in Puttalam being surrounded by relatives and UPFA activists. A 19-year-old boy died in the incident. Pic by Hiran Priyankara. (See story below). The picture on the right shows the burial of the 68-year-old mother Kusumawathi Kuruppuarachchi, who was shot dead while on her way to a UNF election meeting in the Hambantota district was held on Friday. A large number of security personnel and Police were present while the media were prevented from taking pictures. These photographs of the funeral were taken with a hidden camera.
Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake has told Police Chief Mahinda Balasuriya that he will not be sending any further communications asking him to ensure that the country’s election laws are upheld because of the continuing failure on the part of the police to do so.
Sections of public servants, security personnel and police were deprived of postal voting as their applications to vote did not reach the Elections Office in time, Elections Department officials disclosed raising fears in some quarters that those responsible might attempt to disrupt polling on election day (January 26).
If you look in the right places – in between the saree shops, numerous ‘saivar kades’ and pavement vendors advertising their wares raucously – you will find that Colombo is a veritable food haven.
Election violence in the run up to the January 26 presidential poll is rising to proportions never seen before in a similar campaign with few amongst the public expecting a free and fair election.
As many as 200,000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital, Port-au-Prince, will need to be rebuilt, authorities in the Caribbean country said on Friday.
Gateway, Sri Lanka's leading educational organization has started to make important strides in tertiary education through its higher education institution, the Gateway Graduate School.
The core business of Abans Financial Services Limited (AFSL) is in the areas of Hire Purchase and Finance Leasing and accounts for over 80% of its total lending portfolio.
Speeding northwards through the highways of the west coast, veering inland to the central hills and emerging in the deep south ahead of the Presidential polls lay bare an array of new political tides and trends.
Captain Samangi Vidanage of the Sri Lanka Army Women’s Corps made history when she passed out as a paratrooper from the Commando Regiment Training School in Uva Kuda Oya in December 2009 becoming the very first female officer in Sri Lanka to do so.
Fourteen million voters, who are eligible to vote at the Presidential election, can go to their respective polling booths on Tuesday January 26 and cast their vote. Polling stations will open at 7 in the morning and are kept open till 4 in the afternoon for the voters to cast their ballot.
