Ten students from S. Thomas College, Mt. Lavinia are presently in Germany on a three-week study tour organized by Mr. Manfred Moeller, Teacher and Coordinating Director of Gymnasium Isernhagen.

It has now come to light that authorities in the previous regime had misused state and private land in the eastern province, said lands minister M.K.D.S. Gunawardena.

Paintings at Temple Trees, this country’s White House, are still leaning against walls waiting to be hung, and the gated grounds are no longer teeming with guards and stewards who served the home’s previous occupant like supplicants at a royal court.

A seven-member committee has handed over a report to the subject minister on its findings into a Rs. 250 million fraud in the purchase of 4,800 metric tons of big onions in Anuradhapura.

A woman, who had been arrested by the TID 348 days ago in Kilinochchi under the PTA, has been remanded further until March 10.

The Navy is yet to be given any promotions following the military defeat of the LTTE, although 1,200 Army officers and soldiers had been promoted, reports say.