Sri Lanka, Jan. 13 -- The Government will step in to monitor the sending of local students for higher studies in foreign countries, Information and Communication Technology and Higher Education Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardane said yesterday. The Minister announced this after visiting the home of one of the three students who had died in the fire at the education institution in which they had been studying in Baku, Azerbaijan.

"The need to monitor the process of sending Sri Lankan students for foreign education has been highlighted with this tragic incident where three Sri Lankan female students died in Azerbaijan," the Minister was quoted as saying by the Department of Government Information.

According to information reaching Colombo, ...