The grade five scholarship examination held this year will not be held again despite appeals by parents to re-conduct the exam.
Examination Commissioner General Amith Jayasundara addressing a press conference today said a Committee which studied the issue of some questions leaking had held there was no necessity to have the examination again.
However students will get full marks for three questions that are believed to have leaked.
Parents of some of the students had earlier demanded that the examination should be held again as eight questions had leaked.
But the parents were told to provide necessary evidence.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
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Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
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