By: Asela Kuruluwansha COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The heads of Sri Lanka's four main Buddhist monastic orders have objected to the prison authorities' decision to bring the jailed nationalist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero to court in lay clothing, saying that only the Buddhist clergy can decide whether a monk loses his ordained status. In a letter to the commissioner general of prisons, the prelates said that no council of monks had found Gnanasara Thero guilty of a pārājika, the gravest cate

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — The knife used to kill Anne Laksha Ignatius, the 31-year-old culinary and hospitality instructor stabbed inside her family home in Nallur on Monday, was a professional meat-cutting knife taken from the kitchen of the Jaffna hotel where her suspected killer worked, people familiar with the investigation said. The suspect, Thevathas Pugalarasan, worked at NorthGate, the hotel on Station Road near the Jaffna railway station. The knife was used for cutting meat in the hotel's ki