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Sri Lanka University Ranking and Higher Education Institute Ranking Sri Lanka University 2014 January Edition Sri Lanka University World Rankings in Year 2013/2014 Rankings Sri Lankan University World Rankings in Year 2013 Released 2013 July (Latest) 2013 January Sri Lanka Rank World Rank University Name Sri Lanka Rank World Rank University Name 1 2150 University of Moratuwa 1 1883 University of Colombo 2 2255 University of Colombo 2 1970 University of Moratuwa 3 2353 University of Ruhuna 3 2618 University of Ruhuna 4 2973 University of Peradeniya 4 2711 University of Peradeniya 5 4508 University of Kelaniya 5 3198 University of Sri Jayewardenepu…

Experts say AI scams are on the rise as criminals use voice cloning, phishing and technologies like ChatGPT to trick people By Tom Williams Posted 8h ago8 hours ago, updated 6h ago6 hours ago Artificial intelligence is getting better at replicating a person's voice and generating coherent conversation.(Reuters: Philippe Wojazer) arlier this year Microsoft revealed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which could recreate a person's voice after listening to them speak for only three seconds. It was a sign of just how quickly AI could be used to convincingly replicate a key pi…

தொப்பிக்கல அல்லது குடும்பி மலை எனப்படும் தென் தமிழீழத்தின் காடும் வயலும் சார்ந்த பிரதேசம்.. சிங்கள பெளத்தத்தின் புராதன இடமாம்.. ஆராய்ச்சி என்ற பெயரில்.. சிங்களம் அதனை உறுதி செய்து சிங்கள பெளத்தத்தின் திணிப்பை ஊக்குவிக்கிறது தென்னிலங்கையின் இனவாதப் பல்கலைக்கழகங்களில் ஒன்றான.. சிறீ ஜெயவர்த்தன புர பல்கலைக்கழகம். தெந்தமிழீழத்தில் சிங்கள.. இந்திய..ஆக்கிரமிப்பு விடுவிப்பில் குடும்பி மலை பெரும்பங்காற்றி இருந்தமை இங்கு குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது. இதன் பூகோள கேந்திரம் அறிந்து அதனை தனது பாரம்பரிய பிரதேசமாக்கிக் கொள்ள நினைக்கிறது சிங்கள பெளத்த பேரினம். It also has some archaeologically important ruins of ancient Buddhist temple and a Pagoda http://www.sjp.ac.lk/news/present-…

Letter to Representatives Lowey and Wolf on US foreign operations funding November 7, 2007 The Honorable Nita M. Lowey US House of Representatives 2329 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-3218 The Honorable Frank R. Wolf US House of Representatives 241 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-4610 Via Facsimile Sri Lanka Since the collapse of the ceasefire between the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government in mid-2006 and the resumption of major military operations, civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting. More than 1,000 have reportedly "disappeared." Several hundred …

Sri Lanka police detain French TV crew By IANS Tuesday December 25, 03:19 PM Colombo, Dec 25 (IANS) It wasn't a merry Christmas for French TV journalists Capucine Henri and C. Siomon doing a documentary on the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. The duo, representing France 24 news channel, had to spend Christmas in a police station in Rathgama in south Sri Lanka, having been detained for filming an army checkpoint and trying to take shots of a Tamil family visiting a relative in a detention camp for terror suspects on Christmas eve. A Free Media Movement (FMM) press release Friday quoted a police officer as saying that the arrested journalists were b…

Killings of a six-year-old girl and a vet are just two examples of a problem that appears to be getting worse Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Rajasthan Her family called her Twinkle. In the dry desert brush of Rajasthan where her body was found, blood spattering her tiny legs and brown school uniform and a belt fastened around her neck, she lay among scattered toffee wrappers. Her family could barely utter the words to describe what happened to the six-year-old. “If you saw her body, you will never sleep again,” said her grandfather Mahvir Meena. Over the past week, a wave of anger and repulsion has enveloped India in resp…

Left, DMK demand India vote against Sri Lanka at UN rights meeting Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja on Thursday said India should demand an impartial and international inquiry on the war crimes committed by Sri Lankan military on Tamils as well as should vote against the island nation in the current meeting of UN Human Rights Council. Raja said the assurances by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or external affairs minister Salman Khurshid has no meaning unless India takes a pro-active role in the current session of the UN Human Rights Council meeting at Geneva. "And India should see whatever resolution brought by US or …

Russia says US troops arriving in Poland pose threat to its security Early deployment of biggest American force in Europe since cold war may be attempt to lock Trump into strategy American soldiers during a welcome ceremony at the Polish-German border in Olszyna, Poland. Photograph: Natalia Dobryszycka/AFP/Getty Images First published on Thursday 12 January 2017 10.39 GMT View more sharing options …

SLAF, SLA attacks tantamount to declaration of war by Colombo, Elilan tells SLMM [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:49 GMT] Liberation Tigers Trincomalee District Political Head S. Elilan, in an urgent letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Ulf Henricsson Saturday evening said that artillery attacks by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and air strikes by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Liberation Tigers controlled territories in the Northeast, tantamounted to Declaration of War by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) against the LTTE. "It is now appropriate for the SLMM to declare publicly that the ceasefire agreement is not holding anymor…

The basic question is, if not now, When? 17. November 2006 By: Kowsalyan. Death Due To Starvation - first case reported in Jaffna peninsula. Dr. Kathiravetpillai told TamilNet that there were no traces of food or water in Chandrapala's stomach and that he had died purely due to starvation and cold. Dr. C. S.Kathiravetpillai, the District Medical Officer of Health (DMH) pronounced the cause of death as 'death due to starvation'. The reality has started to strike our faces. It’s not happening in a far away land, now it’s on our door steps. Since the closure of A9 highway, Jaffna Peninsula is cut off from the rest of the island, the humanitarian …

In 1996 they were preschoolers living in Mankulam. Today Jinoshan and Rushanthini are learning Year-11 at Mankulam Maha Vidhyalayam. Their lives in the intervening decade are by no means typical for 15 year olds anywhere in the world. As four year olds they displaced with their families in 1997 as the Sri Lankan military launched an attack on Mankulam. Their families moved to Mallavi and the two started their schooling at Yohapuram Maha Vidhyalayam in Mallavi. One year later in 1998 they displaced again this time from Mallavi to Akkarayan because Mallavi came within Sri Lankan military artillery shell range. They were studying Year-3. In early 1999 they displaced a…

A police officer and two employees were killed in Chicago hospital shooting that left gunman dead By Emanuella Grinberg, Sheena Jones and Ryan Young, CNN Updated at 11:03 PM ET, Mon November 19, 2018 …

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/12/25/how-amazon-gains-control-domination/ How Amazon Gains Control & Domination by Wolf Richter • Dec 25, 2019 Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else. By Wolf Richter. This is the transcript from my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Amazon just gave us an update on how rapidly its own delivery system is replacing UPS, the US Postal Service, FedEx, and other carriers in delivering packages from an Amazon fulfillment center to the door of Amazon’s customer. The numbers show how big this system is already after practically no time of starting it up, how big the package volume is …

India seeks to back non-intrusive resolution against Lanka at UN rights Council DMK workers laid siege to the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner's office in Chennai on Match 5, 2013 demanding United Nations Human Rights Council probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. (TOI photo by C Suresh Kumar) RELATED DMK seeks referendum in north, east Lanka NEW DELHI: The US circulated a draft resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka on Thursday, which, if supported by India, could upend many of the fundamental "no-go" areas of Indian foreign policy and complicate New Delhi's efforts to honour the sentiments of Tamil MPs while maintaining it…

37 Million Bees Found Dead After Planting Large GMO Corn Field Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are about 600 hives. “Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said. While many bee keepers blame neonicotinoids, or “neonics.” for colony collapse of bees and many countries in EU have banned neonicotinoid class of pesticides, the US Department of Agriculture fails to ban insecticides known as neonicotinoids, manufactured by Bayer CropScience Inc. Two of Bayer’s best-…

Danish aid group says staffer killed in Sri Lanka 23 Jul 2007 10:10:13 GMT Source: Reuters Alert Me | Print | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] COLOMBO, July 23 (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead a Sri Lankan staff member of the Danish Refugee Council in the island's army-held far northern Jaffna peninsula, the aid group said on Monday, the latest in a series of killings of humanitarian staff. "One of our national staff in Jaffna was murdered this morning," said Charles Macfadden, head of the group's Sri Lanka mission. "We know nothing. He was on his way to work, we understand he dropped (off) his wife, stopped and had a chat with someone and some…

London-based Global Tamil Forum (GTF) has released a shocking video, from which this photograph has been extracted, to show that many children had been captured and shot dead towards the end of the Eelam war by the Sri Lankan troops. “They killed in cold blood not just LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran but several kids in similar fashion. This video nails the Sri Lankan government for serious war crimes”, GTF spokesman Suren Surendiran told Deccan Chronicle. He said the group in the picture included a little boy and a youth without a hand, all of them with their hands tied at the back. They were all later shot dead as seen in the video being re…

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599171067/no-fire-zone-impact-distribution No Fire Zone documents the day to day horror of this war in a way almost never done before: Footage recorded by both the victims and perpetrators on mobile phones and small cameras – viscerally powerful actuality from the battlefield, from inside the crudely dug civilian bunkers and over-crowded makeshift hospitals. Footage which is nothing less than direct evidence of war crimes, summary execution, torture and sexual violence. No Fire Zone also brings the story up to date. The Sri Lankan government still denies this all happened - even claiming that what they did was an “humani…

Cholesterol drugs taken by around eight million Britons could slash the risk of death from coronavirus, a new study has claimed. Statins, taken to reduce 'bad' blood cholesterol, were found to cut mortality by 43 per cent compared to non-statin users. The British Heart Foundation says that statins are typically prescribed more than 70 million times a year. Now, a team has analysed 12 studies on the drug's effectiveness, which looked at 110,078 patients who died of coronavirus. Copy link to paste in your message …

(CNN) -- A refugee and mother of three young boys who is being held in indefinite detention in Australia has two days to convince the country's highest court why she should be freed. It's her last shot at overturning a government policy which was recently condemned by a United Nations Human Right Committee report as "cruel, inhuman and degrading." Failure will mean that Ranjini, a 34-year-old Sri Lankan refugee, will continue to be held without trial for the foreseeable future, for reasons that remain a national secret. And she's not the only one. "The core issues in Ranjini's case are common to more than 50 other refugees deemed a security risk and has serious impl…

The Government has ruled out talks with banned Tamil diaspora groups but will instead look at engaging with others. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had told UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during his recent visit to the UN that internal issues of Sri Lanka should be resolved through an internal mechanism of the country and that the Tamil Diaspora would be invited for discussions in this regard. However, in an interview with Daily Mirror, Foreign Minister, Professor G. L. Peiris, insisted that there will not be any direct talks with banned diaspora groups like the Global Tamil Forum. The Global Tamil Forum (GTF), British Tamil Forum (BTF), Canadian Tamil …

Chauvinism In The Age Of Immigration by Walter Trkla (Swans - October 4, 2010) Recent letters to the editor in our local newspaper and reports from the Urban Alliance on Race Relations indicate that many Canadians are xenophobic. Canada has a history of racial intolerance, and even though our multicultural policies promote equality, we continue to see racist comments in the letters to the editor. Some comments in the paper in support of racial harmony and openness have been responded to with vicious attacks -- "People like you will allow anyone and anything into our country and to hell with what the majority of us consider sacred: CANADIAN values!"…

2ND LEAD (CORRECTION, UPDATE) "White van" squad kills TNA MP's bodyguard [TamilNet, Sunday, 24 September 2006, 09:21 GMT] Amparai District Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian K. Pathmanathan's security official was shot and killed Sunday morning by gunmen riding in a white van at Vinayagapuram in Thirukkovil in Amparai District, Police said. Sri Lankan counter-insurgency Special Task Force (STF) checkpost is located 100 meters from the site where the bodyguard was slain, according to civilian sources at Vinayakapuaram. The deceased, Kunchithamby Kuvendran, 38, a father of two, has been serving as body guard for the TNA M.P for Amparai district K. Pathmana…

A Catholic priest who narrowly survived the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka has been questioned by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) over a book of Tamil poetry he wrote called 'Uyirpathivu' which literally translates as, “Life Records”. The priest was allowed to be accompanied by a colleague and was questioned on Wednesday (03) by three officers from TID in the Jaffna Bishop’s house. The interrogation focused on aerial bomb attacks on churches and schools that the priest witnessed during the last months of the war in 2009 and wrote about in his poems. The significance of an aerial bombing is that it can only have been carried out by the Sri Lankan gover…