{"id":11450,"date":"2021-12-20T04:06:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2021-12-20T04:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T04:06:57","slug":"colombo-university-students-refuse-to-accept-degree-certificates-from-chancellor-ananda-thera-at-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/colombo-university-students-refuse-to-accept-degree-certificates-from-chancellor-ananda-thera-at-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo University students refuse to accept Degree Certificates from Chancellor Ananda Thera at Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colombo University Students Refuse To Accept Degree Certificates From Chancellor Ananda Thera At Convocation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graduates of the University of Colombo refused to accept their certificates from Muruththetuwe Ananda Thera, the Chancellor of the university, at their annual convocation ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the tradition, it is the chancellor who presents the degree certificates at the convocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time, however, the graduates refused to accept their certificates from the controversial Buddhist monk forcing the Vice Chacellor to present the degree certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ananda Thera is a trade union leader and a supporter of the current administration. Addressing a public event recently, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said Ananda Thera was appointed the Chancellor as the latter supported their political campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Asian Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo University Students Refuse To Accept Degree Certificates From Chancellor Ananda Thera At Convocation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11452,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450\/revisions\/11452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}