The results of the GCE Ordinary Level Examination 2012, were released to the web by the Examinations Department yesterday afternoon.

Candidates could download the results from the Department’s website www.doenets.lk, Commissioner General of Examinations W. M. N. J. Pushpakumara told The Island.

Ongoing efforts to ascertain the number of persons, including LTTE cadres, killed during eelam war IV (July 2006-May 2009)and deaths caused due to natural causes as well as accidents, had been hampered by the reluctance on the part of countries accommodating those making accusations to share information with the Sri Lanka government, government sources said.

Military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya told The Island that an accurate assessment of the number of Sri Lankan migrants was prerequisite for a methodical in

The Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation of Burkina Faso Mr. Yipene Djibrill Bassole called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning at the Presidential Secretariat.

While thanking the government of Burkina Faso for its continued support to Sri Lanka in international fora, President Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka’s current foreign policy has prioritized expanding and strengthening bilateral relations among African countries.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) and the University of Kelaniya (UoK) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which aims at developing and promoting the accounting education and the profession in the country.
The MoU was signed by CA Sri Lanka President Sujeewa Rajapakse and Vice Chancellor of the Kelaniya University Prof. Sarath Amunugama.

A strain of hawkish thought maintains that if armies were unencumbered by weak-willed politicians, pinkish concerns with human rights and above all the intrusions of the media they could rapidly snuff out the kind of insurrections that, in reality, needled them for years. In the American experience this line of thinking is wheeled out most often in relation to Vietnam — where television pictures did mould domestic public opinion. In the British case, Northern Ireland, with the controversy over the existence or otherwise of a &lsquo

Tamil newspaper Uthayan's Kilinochchi office was attacked earlier this week for the 32nd time, but the authorities have failed to apprehend a single perpetrator to date, for any of the attacks committed so far, Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) Propaganda Secretary, Pubudu Jagoda said yesterday.

 

Addressing a media briefing, Jagoda claimed reports of media harassment are increasing at alarming frequency, especially as the Tamil newspaper Uthayan's Kilinochchi office was attacked earlier this ...

Scottish police officers are coming to the end of a three-year project to retrain their counterparts in Sri Lanka. BBC Scotland reporter Willie Johnston travelled to the Indian Ocean island to see how the venture was working.

Nanda Kumara has no hint of shame on his face when he shows me his home.

I step over an open sewer to reach the door where Nanda's wife and four children are gathered. Inside is a cramped living area almost totally devoid of furniture. A curtain separates it from the single bedroom where th

DIG Ravi Waidyalankara’s son, Asela, had lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission demanding justice over the alleged attack at Passikudah and claimed that his fundamental rights were violated by the police officers who inquired into the matter at the time, Commissioner, SLHRC, Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa told.
The Commissioner said that both parties were summoned to for a hearing on April 8 at around 9.30 a.m. Asela had made the complaint bearing No. HRC-826-2013 on March 6, 2013, he said.

India says it took a risk on the Sri Lankan issue despite pressure from some political parties and interest groups in India.

In an interview with the Indo Asian News Service (IANS) today, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that some groups wanted India to go much further.

“Tamil Nadu assembly has passed a resolution, they wanted us to do the same thing at the UN, but we didn’t do it,” he said.

The National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) is deeply concerned regarding the prevalence in Sri Lanka of an organized campaign of hatred against adherents of non‐majority faiths.

In recent months Muslims and Christians alike have faced numerous attacks and violence against their practice of worship. Additionally Muslim owned business establishments and Muslim women in their religious attire have faced attack and assault, NCEASL said.