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(NPC – by Dr. Jehan Perera) The events that took place last week outside and inside the UN office complex in Colombo reveal just how much the human rights advisory panel appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has generated agitation within the Sri Lankan government. From the [...]
(Daily News – by J Arun)
In today’s age of convenience, fast food needs no introduction. Everyone from two year-old toddler to a 60-year-old Grandpa seems to be enjoying it every chance they get and why not? It’s delicious, it’s filling, is really affordable and readily available just any time of [...]
(National – by Feizal Samath, Foreign Correspondent)
COLOMBO // Sri Lanka’s cabinet met yesterday in a town formerly held by Tamil rebels during the country’s 30-year civil war in the latest effort to try to heal the wounds left by the bloody conflict.
The meeting in the northern town of Kilinochchi came as details [...]
(Daily News) Interview with Dr. Armando Caballero, chief of the Intensive Care Unit at the Arnaldo Milián University Hospital in Santa Clara, on the health condition of patient Guillermo Fariñas.
Deisy Francis Mexidor
Science, humanism, professionalism and the most advanced and costliest treatments have been used to save the life of patient [...]
(The Island) It must be at least 30 years since I slept more than 5 hours a night. When I got married , we shared the bed with an Irish wolfhound , the size of a small donkey. Since my husband died , there have been 3 dogs on the [...]
(Daily News) The scintillating year’s charity gala musical extravaganza, ‘Tharu Dilena Reyak’ organized under the ‘Brave Hearts’ project of the Seva Vanitha Army Branch (SVAB), is to be staged at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium on 17th July 2010 at 7.00 p.m. in order to canvass financial support for construction of Anuradhapura, ‘Abimansala’, [...]
(CI) Yuvraj Singh made optimum use of the tour game to ensure his place at No. 6 in the Test line-up, scoring an entertaining and assured century, but could not save the Indians the embarrassment of not making the follow-on mark against the Board Presidents’ XI. Ajantha Mendis gave the selectors [...]
(The Island – by Pemasara Epasinghe) The Indian word ‘Kohinoor’, means the most precious and valuable diamond (The transparent precious stone of pure carbon, in crystallized form) in the world. If the champion batting artist Sachin Tendulkar of India, is the ‘Kohinoor’ or the batting artist in the [...]
(Daily News – by Lakmini Karaliyadda)
Buddhagaya
In recent times there have been many Buddhists who seek to make pilgrimage to Dambadiva. For a first-timer it is a very moving experience that goes deep down their soul. To be in the same surroundings where the Buddha once walked, breathed and preached to the [...]
(Isria) The Ministry of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Development has collected 2D seismic data offshore Galle and Hambantota to evaluate petroleum potentials.
The survey which was carried out in 2009 was intended to investigate the petroleum potential of two gravity anomalies indicated by satellite off the Southern coastal belt of Sri [...]
(AN – By STANLEY A. MAYADUNNE, RIYADH) Sri Lanka’s bruised ties with the West and the angry reaction against a panel appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are not without reason.
Sri Lanka was subjected to terrorism at its worst form for 30 years. Only those who lived in the country know to what [...]
(The Island – by Prof. Rajeeva Wijesinghe) Rereading books one has enjoyed can be enormous fun. Sadly, due to some sort of residual streak of puritanism, a feeling that one should be getting on with new things, this is not a pleasure I often allow myself.
Fortunately a collection of [...]
(Daily Mirror – by Sakunthala Perera) Sri Lankan politics have evolved two ways of handling an issue of global magnitude. The first one is easy; just play to the gallery, ensure your local vote base is intact and come up a hero for the week. In other words, a death fast lasting [...]
(Daily News) Secluded beaches, lush jungles and a rich culture make Sri Lanka an island of bliss, says Fiona Barton of Daily Mail who visited terror-free Sri Lanka after one year of war victory.
I am woken in the middle of the night by the silence. A world away from the all-night [...]
(The Island – by Dr. B.J.C.Perera)
MBBS(Ceylon), DCH(Ceylon), DCH(England), MD(Paediatrics), FRCP(Edinburgh), FRCP(London), FRCPCH(United Kingdom), FSLCPaed, FCCP, FCGP(Sri Lanka) Consultant Paediatrician
To most people, writing may seem to be an automatic, spontaneous and subconscious task. Even though almost everybody does it every day, writing is one of [...]
(Daily Mirror – By S H Mithrapala, Krishan Dilrukh and W A Nelka)
The two-day ( June 22 and June 23) workshop held at Tangalla Bay Hotel coupled with three field visits to home gardens had been organised exclusively for the media by the New Environment Resource Alliance (New ERA) of Ambalantota in [...]
(Daily News – by Malinda Senevirathne) My daughter reads Enid Blyton. She’s picked up words that I have not heard in decades. She chides her little sister: ‘you horrid girl!’ She sees mystery in all things. She talks about midnight feasts. She has become a find-outer. She has crazy explanations [...]
(Written authoritatively without publishing the name due to fear of being persecuted by Douglas Devananda’s paramilitary group and the Sri Lankan state intelligence services)
( Sri Lanka Guardian) Following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, the LTTE branded Tamil quisling group under the pseudo political party name Eelam [...]
(The Island – by Kuldip Nayar) FORMER Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral would always say that a solution between Pakistan and India had to be evolved, not presented to the people as if a magician had pulled out a rabbit of the bag. He had a point. The two sides, particularly the politicians and [...]
T T Jayaratnam
(Daily Mirror) Mahajana College, situated at Tellipallai is one hundred years old this year (2010). During the year 1910, the Thuraiappah family with the devoted assistance of the public at Tellipallai and adjoining villages, shouldered the task of establishing an English medium school at Tellipallai, primarily for the [...]
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