Measures have been taken to enroll 1400 graduate teachers to schools in the Central Province.

Chief Minister of the Central Province, Sarath Ekanayake says that teachers will be attached to selected schools in rural areas.

"There are around 30,000 teachers in the Central Province. The majority of these teachers are arts graduates. There is a lack of teachers for Science, Maths, English, Aesthetics and Information Technology subjects.''

Medical Faculty Students' Action Committee convened a media briefing

The committee charged that foreign students are being enrolled to the medical faculty on financial grounds.

"The faculty committee has decided not enroll students that were enrolled to the Peradeniya University. However, the degrees that are to be sold in remaining medical faculties and other faculties in universities, still exist.''

The Prime Minister (PM)  David Cameron’s decision to attend the summit despite the continuing call by the Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper’s Government as well as Human Rights Organisations and the Tamils around the world to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lank sets the wrong precedence. A spokesperson for the Queen, who is the head of the Commonwealth, has confirmed that it would be the first time since 1973 the head of the Commonwealth would not be present at an important summit

Sri Lanka’s government is confident that a European Union warning on illegal fishing in the island will be retracted soon paving the way for German and Chinese investors to double fish export income to around half a billion U. S. dollars, an official said today.
Extensive lobbying has been done since the warning was issued in November 2012 with the EU officials indicating that it will withdraw its “yellow card” in June, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Rajitha Senaratne told media.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today officially declared the commencement of the war heroes month, at a ceremony held at Temple Trees.

The Prime Minister, politicians, defence secretary and commanders of the three forces attended the ceremony.

The Ministry of Defence said that the month between 08th May and 08th June 2013 has been declared as the National War Heroes Commemoration month and a series of events have been scheduled to be held to coincide with the War Hero Commemoration including the Victory Parade at Galle F

Azath Salley‘s detention under the Prevention of Terrorism Act should be revoked and he should be released immediately. If there are indeed serious allegations of his inciting religious hostility that merit investigation, such investigation, and any consequent action, should take place under the normal law. It should also be part of a wider law-enforcement exercise against all such offenders, irrespective of ethnic, religious or political affiliation.

Rights activists have criticised Bahrain's justice system after a Sri Lankan maid who was allegedly beaten up by her employer was ordered to pay BD590 for running away.

Sri Lankan Sushila Jayathilaka, 49, fled the Bahraini's home in Hamad Town early last year following 10 months of mistreatment.

She later filed a case against her employer with the help of the Migrant Workers Protection Society (MWPS).

The government would do to the university system what it did to the judiciary of the country, President of the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations, Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri said yesterday.

Addressing a media conference, at the Colombo University, he said that universities were highly politicised at present especially in the appointment of academics to key posts.

For example, teachers of the Peradeniya University had vacated their voluntary posts for nearly six months to protest the appointing of

Students of a leading school in Maradana grabbed a video correspondent of Hiru Television and took his camera when he went to video an incident at the school.

According to journalists from Hiru TV, the students had later returned the video camera after erasing the video footage taken by the cameraman.

The cameraman had gone to the school to look into reports that the students were protesting in the school and lighting firecrackers.

The Dalai Lama speaks at the Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace at the University of Maryland    

The Dalai Lama has implored Buddhist monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to put an end to a series of recent attacks on Muslims in their countries, the Associated Press reported today.

The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader spoke Tuesday night about religious violence when asked questions following a speech he delivered to 15,000 people at the University of Maryland. He condemned all killing being carried out in the