As we mark International Women's Day on March 8 in celebration of the rights, status, achievements, and potential of women in our society, Educate Lanka looked to its own impact to reflect upon its role in unleashing the potential of the deserving poor, specifically the women, through the weapon of education.

Rashmi, a grade 10 student from Gampola, Sri Lanka, comes from a single-parent household. When Rashmi's father neglected the family, her mother, Sriyani, struggled financially to make ends meet. Though she could n

Amidst calls for its boycott, a global business forum linked to the key Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in Colombo later this year will enhance inflow of investments into the country, a top official said yesterday.


“According to our evaluation and the research we have conducted, the Commonwealth Business Council is targeting that US $ 2 billion worth of investment will be generated from the 2013 Commonwealth Business Forum in Sri Lanka,” Commonwealth Business Council Co Chair Dr. M

The Ceylon Teachers' Union (CTU) threatened to take legal action against schools that register areas designated for physical training activity of the students, under the Companies Act.

The Union alleged that several popular national schools have registered their sports grounds, swimming pools and various other sporting venues as companies and those venues function independently of the school.

The government has come under fire for stopping a group of people, the other day in Vavuniya, on their way to Colombo to inform the UN office of disappearances and other human rights issues. Martin Nesirky, the spokesman for UNSG Ban Ki-moon, has told the media in New York that if people have information to pass on to the UN, there are other channels available to them to do so even if they cannot reach Colombo. There is more than one way to skin a cat!

The brother of the British tourist murdered in Sri Lanka said Friday that he is shocked by the government's failure to bring the killers to justice even after the lapse of 15 months and made an emotional appeal for justice warning that inaction could impact the island's lucrative tourist industry.

Kuram Shaikh was murdered and his girlfriend viciously assaulted while they were spending holiday at the southern seaside town of Tangalle in December 2011 by a group of people headed by a provincial politician.

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India had expressed its concern about the delay in implementing a political solution to the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka,but the Rajapaksa government would not adopt a negative approach towards its neighbour, Media Minister Keheliya Rambuwalle said yesterday addressing the weekly cabinet press briefing in Colombo,.

He said that Indo-Lanka relations were fine and they were engaged in a constructive, amicable and diplomatic dialogue with New Delhi.

In the days of television, internet and cellular phones, a period spanning four years seems like an eon as far as the number of events that occur during a 24-hour period is concerned. Life-cycles of events get shorter and so do their memories; the advent of television has brought about a revolution in dissemination of information so much so that folks have got used to morning news-shows on television before they leave for their jobs. The news websites on the internet have added a further impetus to this trend.

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"If the LTTE chooses to abandon peace, however, we want it to be clear they will face a stronger more capable and more determined Sri Lankan military. We want the cost of a return to war to be high."
Jeffrey Lunstead, former US Ambassador,
American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka
"You have probably seen the headlines expressing our government's concern over the impeachment of the Chief Justice. Action that undermin

As it prepares to face a US-backed resolution on Lankan Tamils at the UNHRC, Sri Lanka today claimed that it has implemented 99 per cent of the recommendations of the reconciliation commission already.

Sri Lanka deserves to be judged by the progress in implementing the recommendations of its own reconciliation commission than by any pre-conceived agendas against it, said Sri Lanka's Human Rights Envoy and Minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe, speaking about his presentation made at the current UN Human Rights Council sessions in

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Thursday refused to spell out the Indian government's stand on the upcoming UN rights panel vote on Sri Lanka but said it would take into consideration parliamentarians' views on the issue.
Not satisfied with the minister's response, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and AIADMK, DMK and MDMK walked out of the Lok Sabha where Khurshid was replying to a short duration discussion on the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils.

"This is a huge humanitarian problem. This