■ Supplementary budget worth Rs. 14 b before Parliament ■Sluggish revenue, high imports widen budget gap; full year target under threat ■January-April deficit already 61% of...
By Amal S. KumaragePresident Rajapaksa conferred with honorary Doctorate by University of Moscow in Russia,One can only thank Mr. C.A.Chandraprema for choosing an apt...
by Sunil BastianLand and land policy has received much attention in recent times. There are numerous discussions and activism around land policy. For example,...
Farmer associations in Kanthale carried out an agitation near Kantale tank today (5th) morning complaining that the Army is interfering in affairs of farmer...
Arts Faculty,University of Sri Jayewardenepuraby Prof.Wiswa WarnapalaAt the beginning, university education in Sri Lanka began as a middle class preserve, as it, in the...
Students protest all over the country The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has received as many as 1,675 complaints from students whose Z-scores...
Public awareness and advocacy can help save young childrenBy Amantha Perera - It was the ghostly silence that struck him hardest as he walked through...
by Dr.Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri 6% of GDP for Education: Who is telling the truth?Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) is asking the government to...
Ahilan Kadirgamar As with most other societies ravaged by civil war, Sri Lanka’s public institutions have all suffered. Beginning in the late colonial period...
By Tirantha Walaliyadda PC Governments that fear the free media are governments on the defensive and as such are vulnerable. It is the media that keeps...
Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) president Dr. Nirmal Dewasiri said that the academics wished enter into a new contract with the government in...
Providing details of private and public lands being appropriated by the SL military in Mannaar district, Tamil activists, who came together for a protest...
There is undoubtedly a horrendous mounting crime wave in the country – politically motivated killings, homicides for personal reasons, abductions, rapes and crimes committed...
Although a formal request had been made to Secretary to President Lalith Weeratunga to make public the Mahanama Tillekeratne report on the killing of...
University teachers will launch an indefinite strike today as their talks with the Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga have failed.Yesterday’s discussion chaired by...
Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) is dismayed by the statements issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the CVCD (Committee of Vice...
Mr Nirmal Dewasiri Since 19 June 2012, human rights defender and Teachers Union leader Dr Nirmal Dewasiri has been subjected to surveillance and intimidation.Nirmal...
Delivering the judgment in the Z-score case Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake said a mere statement that the decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC)...
UGC asked to calculate Z-score separately for two syllabiThe Supreme Court yesterday declared null and void the August 2011 GCE (A/L) examination Z-score. The...
Dr. DavidDr. Kumar DavidPart I, last week, discussed the political background, international tensions and a few class related issues and made an evaluation of...
FTZ protest suppressed Michael Delaney, Assistant United States Trade Representative for South and Central Areas Affairs, yesterday (14) told journalists in Colombo that significant...
Co-President, University Trade Union Joint Committee (UTUJC) R. M. Chandrapala, (centre) addresses the media with Co-President of the UTUJC P. M. J. R. Fernando,...
Academic activities and all examinations in universities countrywide were disrupted for the sixth consecutive day yesterday due to the all-out strike launched by the...
University non-academic staff, including administrative officers, will go on strike from today (06) as yesterday’s discussion with Higher Education Ministry officials failed. President of...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
