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| Indian scholarships to Sri Lankan students for higher education |
| 2013-01-14 |
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Indian government has offered a large number of scholarships for Sri Lankan students to follow undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD degrees in some of the leading universities in India, a Press Release issued by the Indian High Commission in Colombo stated. All government funded ICCR scholarships cover full tuition fees for the entire duration of the course. In addition a monthly sustenance allowance, accommodation allowance and annual grant for books and stationeries will also be provided. The scholarship programme is included full health care
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| Graduate recruits left in the lurch |
| 2013-01-15 |
Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration, P. B. Abeykoon tendered an unqualified apology yesterday to trainee graduates who were left standing at the awards ceremony at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium on 12 January where 50,000 appointment letters were to be presented by President Mahinda Rajapaksa .
Abeykoon, responding to a query by Ceylon Today, said all 50,000 appointees were invited for the Presidential function at the stadium, which could reportedly accommodate only a crowd of 20
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| Rizana too was a remarkable girl |
| 2013-01-15 |
Rizana the girl child from Muttur Sri Lanka was beheaded in a Saudi Prison on 9 January. Malala the 15-year-old Pakistani girl, who was shot in the head by the Taliban, was discharged from the Birmingham hospital on 4 January.
The poor parents of Rizana of Muttur have now requested for the body of their daughter. The Queen Elizabeth hospital that treated Malala has advised her parents that Malala could now be treated at her family's temporary home in the United Kingdom. The Pakistani Go
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| Family disputes leave more and more kids in the lurch, says NCPA |
| 2013-01-15 |
With parents abandoning children violating the child’s rights and the growing number of such cases due to family disputes and domestic violence, authorities are under pressure to reintegrate families, National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) Chairman Anoma Dissanayake said.
She said during the three-decade conflict, Sri Lanka saw many orphans, but today, the country is seeing more abandoned children due to family disputes, domestic violence and when the mother leaves for overseas employment.
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| Rizana, epitome of the plight of marginalised |
| 2013-01-15 |
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Rizana Nafeek commanded newspaper headlines and editorial comments on several occasions for tragic reasons. She was an innocent damsel from a rustic rural locale who became the victim of her own pitiful circumstances. She was brutally condemned to death and savagely executed by a rigid system of justice abominably lacking in human considerations. She symbolizes the wretched circumstances in which the economically challenged and downtrodden segment of this country is suffering from untold hardships and abject poverty. Although the enormous
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| Minister orders action against rogue pharmacies |
| 2013-01-14 |
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena instructed the Cosmetic Devices and Drug Control Authority (CDDA) to take immediate action against private pharmacies purchasing medicine issued by the government and selling them to patients at higher prices.
He instructed CDDA officials to cancel the licenses of such private pharmacies and take legal action against pharmacy owners.
The Health Ministry recently uncovered a racket where drugs issued to patients by government hospitals were sold to ot
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| Explosives, porn in TNA office |
| 2013-01-12 |
The Terrorist Investigations Division (TID) and the army have recovered explosives and pornographic material from the office of TNA MP S. Sridharan in Killinochchi, military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya told the Colombo Gazette.
He said that a three-wheel driver had been arrested in Gurunagar, Jaffna yesterday with low intensity explosives hidden in the vehicle.
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| 1200 Lankan Tamil return home in 2012 |
| 2013-01-12 |
More than 1,200 Sri Lankan nationals living in India as refugees have returned to their country in 2012 with monetary support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Between January and December last year, 1,260 Tamil refugees who were residing in special camps across Tamil Nadu returned to their home country with the UN agency’s assistance, UNHCR said.
In 2011, more than 1,670 refugees returned to Sri Lanka as compared to 2,040 in the previous year in the
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| Law entrance students complain to HRC |
| 2013-01-13 |
Law entrance students said yesterday they had filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission and would take legal action against the Examinations Department’s failure to investigate the alleged leak of the paper.
The Law Entrance Students Union said it had not received an adequate response when the union inquired from the Examinations Department whether it was carrying out an investigation on the 2013 law examination.
“We are still awaiting an impa
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