Each year, thousands of academically qualified students in northern Sri Lanka are denied access to university education, perpetuating regional inequality and threatening the nation's ambitions to become a digital economy leader, according to a new feasibility study. The study, conducted by Ernst & Young (EY) in partnership with the Magick Group, reveals that across Sri Lanka, only 40,000 of the nearly 280,000 students who sit for university entrance exams gain admission to state universities —

The skeletal remains being recovered from the Chemmani mass grave constitute primary evidence of massacres and warrant an international investigation, said Jehan Perera, Executive Director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, during a visit to Jaffna this week. Jehan Perera emphasized that the discoveries at Chemmani represent undeniable proof of deliberate killings and called for professional international expertise to ensure a credible investigation into the site. "The skeletal remain

The General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Tilvin Silva, has announced that the government has begun the process of repealing the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), a controversial law that has been in force since 1979. Speaking at a recent discussion held at the Mahaweli Centre in Colombo, Silva also characterized the 1983 Black July pogrom as a calculated political move by then-President J.R. Jayewardene to construct an authoritarian state through the mobilization of Sinhal