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(Daily News – by Dr Senarath Tennakoon) Culture seeks to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself freely nourished and not bound by them - Mattew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy, 1869 The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization [...] (The Island) As a reader who really value and adore your forthright editorials (surely by the majority of readers) I was sorry and just couldn’t help but disagree with the essence of your editorial of today (July 08th) with the heading “Head-butts and own goals”, on the issue [...] A nurse’s ‘Hi’ costs thousands of rupees (Daily News) Nadira Gunatilleke Private hospitals are not something new to Sri Lanka. There are many private hospitals in the city of Colombo and also in the suburbs. Since the recent past, private hospitals are mushrooming all over Sri Lanka rapidly and some of these [...] (RW) In 1956 S W R D Bandaranaike became Prime Minister, in a coalition of nationalist forces dominated by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party that he established on leaving the UNP. Though initially he had presented himself as the champion of the common man against the elite which had dominated Sri [...] (The Island) The European Union [EU] as expected, decided to terminate GSP + concessions to Sri Lanka. They went through the formality of discussions with the Sri Lanka delegation, and then came up with a preposterous demand – no less than 15 conditions to be fulfiled – if they were [...] (Daily News) Speech made by Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne in Parliament yesterday. Mangala Samaraweera, MP on July 2 abusing his privilege as a Member of Parliament, unleashed a vituperative attack on the higher, Judiciary of the country and any right thinking citizen of the country, taking [...] (Daily Mirror – by Ameen Izzadeen) The Palestinian peace process is back on track. That’s what a ‘nailed’ US President Barack Obama wants the rest of the world concerned with peace in the troubled region to believe after his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Following the talks, Obama addressed the media [...] (Daily News – by Palitha Senanayake) There were a few NGOs funded by the National Christian Council such as the ‘National Peace Council’ that have been advocating pluralism among the Sri Lankans and they opine that the cause of the so-called ‘ethnic conflict’ in this country was the absence of pluralism in [...] Minister Weerawansa has begun a fast unto death demanding the disbanding of the UN advisory panel on Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is now firmly embroiled in a a no-holds barred political war against the United Nations and the West. This is a path which would lead us into that international wilderness [...] (The Island) ‘From moon landings to promoting self-esteem.’ This is US President Barack Obama’s latest brief to the US’ National Aeronautical and Space Agency. The latter is from now on expected to reach out to the Muslim world and engage with it with the aim of ‘making it feel [...] (DNA) In an interview with DNA, Sri Lanka-bound Rahul Dravid says the key to stay atop the Test rankings is to stop worrying about it. How have you prepared for the Sri Lanka series?I had a good time off after the IPL. I started preparing recently for the series. I spent some quality [...] (Daily Mirror – By Richard Black) Climate scientists at a top U.K. research unit have emerged from an inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact but with a lack of openness criticised. The Independent Climate Change Email Review was set up by the University of East Anglia (UEA) after more than 1,000 e-mails [...] (Daily News – by Dr. Lal Mervin Dharmasiri) Government has recently taken a policy decision to bring the private sector for higher education system. Under this initiative, it is expected that international/foreign universities will be in Sri Lanka and provide their facilities on this basis, there will be a competition [...] |
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