The Principal of Anula Devi Girls' School in Galle who was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 100,000 to admit a grade one student was ordered to be further remanded until March 5 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Court.
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today (Feb 20) made the order when the case was taken up for hearing.
The Principal was arrested by the Bribery Commission while accepting a bribe from a parent to admit a child to a grade one class.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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