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Latest game of .... lifting laptop with baby in arms
A cctv video is seen below of a man, woman and a servant woman; the latter carrying a baby entering a computer sales outlet in Puttalam Road in Kurunegala where in a well-planned manner, on the pretense of showing the environs in the shop to the child in her alms proceed to rob a laptop displayed on sale.This incident was reported yesterday and the police are still conducting investigations on this robbery.
Teaching Ceylon History, mother-tongue and Religion compulsory from 2014 in International schools
- Minister Bandula
The government has decided to include subjects of Ceylon History, mother-tongue and Religion as compulsory subjects in International schools. Minister of Education, Mr. Bandula Gunawardhana yesterday mentioned that the cabinet proposal has been prepared and that it would be approved by the Minister concerned in the recent future and that the new regulations will be put into effect from January next year. For quite some time scholars have pointed out that students of most International schools are taught subjects for London exams other than History, the mother tongue and religion and that it results in gaining a knowledge only of Western countries which means that Sri Lanka in the future would produce a generation of people who know nothing of Sri Lanka History. Further criticism was aimed at the fact that though the mother tongue of the majority is Sinhala and the religion is Buddhism, International schools have considered these subjects as not important and had even forgotten Sinhala because the students are taught in the English medium. Criticism was made to the effect that problems would arise in the future with regard to the existence of the national language. By this time there is an equal demand for International schools in urban areas as much as the popular government schools in Sri Lanka. To admit children to certain schools it has been a more competition than in the case of admitting them to government schools. However, middle-class families do not show much of a liking for the teaching tradition of those schools because of this type of problem relating to above-mentioned subjects, discipline and school traditions
Limitless motherly affection .... which refused to accept daughter is dead
A case is reported from Hatton recently of a modern Kisagothami where a mother kept hugging and giving warmth to her daughter not willing to accept that her daughter had definitely died from a landslide. It was last Friday that a large landslide was reported as having cascaded onto a row of shops near the access point to the railway station at the centre of the town of Hatton as a result of a landslide.On this occasion a mother and her 2 children and her brother who were lodging in one of the shops were covered by the landslip. People in the neighbourhood later had got together and after rescuing the victims had admitted them to the hospital.The said mother and her brother however have not suffered much injury; but the 4 year old daughter of the mother had died in the process. The deceased daughter and the other daughter who were injured were admitted to Dickoya Base Hospital and on that occasion the mother rushed to inquire as to what happened to her children. On that occasion she came to hear that one of her daughters had passed away. But the mother whose warmth the dead child has being enjoying a few hours previously had left the world forever .... which fact the mother did not want to accept.Instead of laying the dead child on the bed, she had begun to lull the body which was lifeless, giving her the warmth she would give a living body .... expressing her motherly affection;thus bringing a sense of sadness to everyone who was watching the scene.
Minister Wimal's wife .... on a tour with President
Minister Wimal Weerawansa, leader of Jathika Nidahas Peramuna in the past weeks about to leave the government. The Minister who lambaced the Government on public stages even boycotted 5 Cabinet meetings. He was saying that the government has strayed from the Mahinda Chintanaya and that it is impossible to go ahead hand in hand with such a regime and then proceeded to forward ca 12-proposal document of the type of 'If you want to reform ....reform!' In the meantime Mr. Wimal Weerawansa all of a sudden stopped the cabinet strike.After the strike when Mr. Wimal Weerawansa presented himself at the Cabinet, The Cabinet proposals had been passed without even being amended. Even before this, higher officers of Wimal's Ministry too were saying something similar. "The way things are moving .... something has to be done pretty soon. it's not sure even a Cabinet paper that the Minister presents will be passed. In any case the Minister does not attend the Cabinet no". The situation is now quite different. Minister Wimal Weerawansa is in Italy these days. The Minister's wife, Mrs. Sashi Weerawansa is engaged in a sojourn in the Maldives and Seychell Islands with the President and First Lady, Shiranthi Raapaksha. Times have changed. The rhythm has taken a new turn now.
