{"id":88093,"date":"2019-05-02T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88093"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:31:02","slug":"no-govt-approved-sharia-university-in-batticaloa-ashu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/02\/no-govt-approved-sharia-university-in-batticaloa-ashu\/","title":{"rendered":"No govt. approved Sharia University in Batticaloa &#8211; Ashu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>There is no government-approved Sharia University or educational institute in Batticaloa district, stated UNP MP Prof. Ashu Marasinghe speaking at a press conference held yesterday (01).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0da9\u0d9a\u0dbd\u0db4\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dda \u0dc2\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc1\u0dca\u0dc0 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dbd\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0db1\u0dd1... \u0d86\u0dc1\u0dd4 \u0db8\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d82\u0dc4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Qw3dQYVnvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On 3rd July in 2015, then Minister of Higher Education Sarath Amunugama had received a letter requesting permission to establish a higher education institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the permission hasn\u2019t been granted for this particular institute as of yet, and that there are many issues regarding this, Marasinghe stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 29th February 2016, the proposed institute had changed its name and they had presented Rs 3600 million worth foreign funds granted to establish this institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claims that this has received approval of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and that it conducts educational courses are false, he further said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore there is no such thing as a Sharia University, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana There is no government-approved Sharia University or educational institute in Batticaloa district, stated UNP MP Prof. Ashu Marasinghe speaking at a press conference held yesterday (01). On 3rd July in 2015, then Minister of Higher Education Sarath Amunugama had received a letter requesting permission to establish a higher education institute. However, the permission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}