The Sri Lanka Educational Administrative Services Union (SLEASU) has demanded that the Commissioner General of Examinations bars several Zonal Directors of Education of the Eastern Province who are reportedly conducting private tuition classes for GCE A/L students, from being involved in examination duties.

The SLEASU has raised concerns that should the aforementioned Zonal Directors be allowed to be present in the examination halls, there is a risk of A/L question papers leaking out.

By Ifham Nizam The launch of the reprint of the report on the first countrywide survey on elephants, conducted in 2011, will be further delayed, according to senior officials of the Department of Wildlife Conservation.

The first print of the report was destroyed due to some shortcomings and infighting in the department, according to sources.

Last December, the department gave the green light for printing of Rs. 500,000.

The school children in Killinochchi, where a large number of people have been killed and eh who area has been battered by the war, have been made to fall from the pan to the hearth due to disconnection of electricity says the National Organizer of Socialist Youth Union (SYU) Bimal Rathnayaka.

Speaking at a special media conference held yesterday (21st) Mr. Rathanayake also said the government is slashing allocations for education. Electricity in many of these schools in Kilinochchi educational zone has been disconnected due to

A team of British Parliamentarians are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow on a fact-finding mission.

Eleanor Laing MP (Conservative Party), Simon Danczuk MP (Labour Party), Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour Party), Lord Sheikh and Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town will be in Colombo from July 22 – 26 for this mission under a comprehensive agenda.

They are expected to meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa, Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickeremesinghe and some

Britain has issued a virtual ultimatum to the government saying if there is insufficient progress on Sri Lanka’s own commitments, or deterioration in the human rights situation, Britain will look for a strong and unified response at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.

British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Alistair Burt had informed the British House of Commons last week that Britain continues to raise concerns about lack of progress on post-conflict reconciliatio

Tuesday (23) will mark three decades since the 1983 Black July that resulted in a long drawn bloody battle between brothers of one nation. As the country marks the 30th anniversary of the pogrom in 1983 it is unfortunate that successive governments that ruled the country since have been unable to satisfactorily address the national issue.

The seeds of hatred that were planted in 1983 have since been nurtured by the string of rulers in some way to become a fully fledged with roots that are now deep seated in society.

Catholic Bishop of Jaffna, Rt. Rev. Thomas Savuntharanayagam petitioned the Court of Appeal seeking Court intervention against the military seizure of lands in the Jaffna Peninsula.

Following the petition filed by the Jaffna Catholic Bishop, the Court of Appeal on Friday issued notice on the respondents.

The Bishop's case follows the petitions already filed by 2,176 Jaffna Tamils seeking relief from the alleged land acquisition.

Petitioners object to Chief Justice nominating Bench

The five judge-special Bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday put off for July 25, support for the fundamental rights violations petition filed against the appointment of Mohan Pieris as Chief Justice 44.

Counsel M.A. Sumanthiran appearing for the Centre for Policy Alternatives and its Executive Director Dr. Paikiyasothy Saravanamuttu declined to support the case before a Bench appointed by the sixth respondent Chief Justice Mohan Pieris, who has appointed the Benc

Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha has said the approaches used in post-tsunami and post-conflict Sri Lanka, with suitable adaptation, could be deployed in managing humanitarian situations in other countries as well, and that the Government of Sri Lanka continues to stand ready to share its experience as best practices on humanitarian effectiveness, with other countries that are similarly placed, in an effort to relieve those who undergo suffering due to humanitarian emergencies.

Ambassador Arya

The opposition Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says Jaffna has been fully militarized after the war with the army engaged in civil administration.

Member of the Central Committee of the JVP and National Organizer of the Socialist Youth Union (SYU) former Parliamentarian Bimal Rathnayake noted that even the governor of the north is also a former army officer.

“In most events in the north, be it even to hold an event in a school, permission must be obtained from the nearest army camp.  There is also the lan