G.C.E. O/L Best Results

Nilakna Disiwari from Visaka Vidyalaya gained the best results of the G.C.E. Ordinary Level for year 2018.

Three students have attained the second best results this year.

235,373 candidates have qualified for the G.C.E. Advanced Level examination. The percentages of passes in Maths is 64.11%.

The following students have obtained the best results:

1st Place:  Nilakna Disiwari from Visaka Vidyalaya

2nd Place:  Savithi Hasandi - Visaka Vidyalaya

                   Sanjani Dileka - Rathnavali Balika Vidyalaya, Gampaha

                    Mindi Rebeka -Sujatha Vidyalaya

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Ordinary Level Exam 2018 results released

The results of G.C.E. Ordinary Level Examination were released online today (28), the Department of Examinations stated.

Accordingly, the results can be accessed through the official website of the department; www.doenets.lk.

The 2018 O/L examination was held from December 03rd to 12th at 4,661 exam centers island-wide while 

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Private education may wipe out State education

Joint Opposition front-liner Dr Bandula Gunawardena has protested against the purported decision by the Government to permit private schools to open five branches, each  claiming that the decision would be detrimental to the free education.
MP Gunawardena who is also a former Education Minister under President Mahinda Rajapaksa is of the opinion that Government’s move would encourage the private education in the country and that would ultim

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New DG appointed to Public Enterprise Department

Thilaka Jayasundara yesterday assumed duties as Director General of the Public Enterprises Department.
 

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President’s anti-narcotic campaign long overdue, but the style is too simplistic

President Maithripala Sirisena genuinely or otherwise seems to share the rightful sense of urgency to combat the drug menace in this country. If he is genuine, he would be the first national leader who understood the gravity of the problem, and sought decisively to act upon it. Perhaps the only other leader, who grappled the extent of the challenge was Ranjan Wijeratna, who as the de-facto defence minister in 1988-89, liquidated the Colombo underworld (along with the JVP). 
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The power and the glory of Mahavamsa

Undoubtedly, Mahavamsa focuses essentially on the Sinhala-Buddhists. What else could historian Mahanama do writing in the 5th century? What else was there for him to write about at the time? He couldn’t write about the Tamils because they were not a part of the evolving historical events. Nor had they established a permanent settlement in the 6th

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How Jaffna Hindus met challenge of European missionaries

With the advent of European power in Ceylon in the 16th Century, the Hndus of Jaffna began to face religious annihilation. The Portuguese and the Dutch were hell bent on converting them to Christianity – the Portuguese to Roman Catholicism and the Dutch to Protestatism. The British, with the help of American missionaries also tried, but in a different way, with education and job offers, not crude coercion.   

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