The Ministry of Education announced today that all the schools will commence their academic year today except the 68 schools which are being used for the marking of GCE Ordinary Level examination answer scripts. Meanwhile all the government and semi-private schools will be closed on the 7th, 8th and 9th of January as the school principals and teachers will be performing election duties in view of the upcoming presidential polls.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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