Government’s HUMANITARIAN OPERATION trounced the LTTE

During the Humanitarian Operation, as the Sri Lankan Armed Forces progressed further and further into LTTE held territory, the LTTE moved the people out of their towns and villages as it retreated to its strongholds. The civilian population was to be used as the LTTE’s human shield. Further, to prevent the advance of the military, the LTTE created obstacles by laying thousands of anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines and improvised explosive devices in the towns and villages left behind,

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The Human Dimension

By comparison WE HAVE STORMS IN a teacup ...!

We see more and more natural disasters throughout the world that threaten to destroy cities and technologically advanced nations. The tsunami that struck Japan reached higher than they expected it to and destroyed cities they thought the waters could never reach. It is foolish to underestimate the power of nature’s fury but many people seem to think they can get away with it,

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Developing tertiary education:

END THIS ‘QUIET CRISIS’

The concept of Tertiary Education in Sri Lanka began in the early 1990s. At that time, the share of the workforce with educational qualifications at the GCE A’L and above was about 7.5 percent. Today it has increased to about 18 percent, indicating that there has been a substantial increase in the employment opportunities for entrants with higher educational qualifications,

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