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The Ceylon Electricity Board is in a quandary following a ministerial directive to accelerate and complete the remaining 15 per cent of rural electrification within three months at a cost between Rs. 5 and 6 billion. The CEB has also been instructed to use its own funds to complete the project.The Ministry directive was subsequent to a Cabinet memorandum submitted by Minister...


Sittings disrupted over
Bandara’s banner
Yesterday’s morning session of Parliament was disrupted
and sittings were suspended twice in 25 minutes following a display of a
banner by UNP MP Palitha Range Bandara inside the chambers.

JVP to support common
presidential candidate?
Will the Marxist JVP support a common opposition
presidential candidate by not fielding a candidate of its own? Speculation is that the JVP
leadership may go all out against the executive presidency, thereby
supporting...





Suicide
attackers
kill 2 at Pakistani university
Two suicide attackers bombed a women’s..

Gota’s
bombshell
By last week the storm clouds that had been
gathering over the Rajapaksa...