Following the steping down of CJ 43 Shirani Bandaranayake from office Supreme Court Justice Kanagasabapathy J. Sripavan will be appointed as next Chief Justice, Government spokesperson Minister Rajitha Senaratne said today. CJ 43 Bandaranayake today said she was stepping down from office at a traditional ceremony at the Supreme Court premises attended by lawyers. " He has been appointed according to the seniority in the bench, not a direct appointment from the President," Minister Senaratne said.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
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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