A petition was signed today at Matara with the initiative of the Graduate Teacher-Student National Centre against the pruning of the external degree intake by the government.
The student intake for the external degree has been temporarily stopped by the University Grants Commission.
The government introduced a new circular stating that the number of external student should be decreased till it’s twice the amount of internal intake of the University.
Therefore, accordingly, only 600 external applications will be accepted to the University of Ruhuna this year as its internal intake is 300 students whereas previously, around 600 external students enrolled for the degree at the Ruhuna University.
Moreover, the new circular states that students cannot apply for the external degree while being employed.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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