The banned herbicide - Glyphosate still exists in the local market on a mass scale, says Dr. Channa Jayasumana, Senior Lecturer in Medicine of the Rajarata University.

Today (26) marks the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, which spread despair and destruction across 14 countries around the Indian Ocean and left a death toll of more than 225,000.

The highest percentage of unemployed Sri Lankans include those whose educational qualifications exceed the GCE.A/Ls, the government says.

Details of Sri Lankans who had deposited 'Black Money' in Swiss Banks are to be revealed, the 'Divaina' newspaper reports.

The arrest of a main suspect in the Wasim Thajudeen murder case has been temporarily put off over the influence of a government bigwig, political sources say.

MPs of the joint opposition had given up their December salary for the welfare of remanded Army intelligence officers and MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage said that handing over of these funds would commence from next month.

A group fighting for the rights of expatriate workers welcomes the suspension of the stoning-to-death sentence handed to a Sri Lankan woman in Saudi Arabia for adultery, but notes that nine more Sri Lankans are facing death penalty in Middle Eastern countries.

Maduru Oya right bank development scheme is to be initiated next year, reports say.