BY  Gomin Dayasri   Landscape in the district of Badulla fits an archetypical UPFA groove. Yet, Ranil Wickremasinghe emerged a comfortable winner in 8 of the 9 constituencies in the Badulla district- [Mahiyanganaya, Passara, Badulla, Hali Ella, Uva Paranagama, Welimada, Bandarawela and Haputale] – at an election where Mahinda Rajapakse scaled the required barrier by […]

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Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Retired Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike and President Senior Citizens Movement MAhanuwara. 22. 8. 2014. It is with much interest I read the article by my friend Ranjit Mulleriyawa in the Island of 8th August under the caption, ‘Preparing to meet future drought situations’. Though the heading as well as […]

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RANJITH SOYSA The latest civil riots in Ferguson, Missouri underscored the fact that all is not well in the criminal justice system and police action in the USA. In a survey conducted recently around 75% of the Afro- Amercan and Hispanic people expressed that they do not have the confidence in the investigation process of […]

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ALI SUKHANVER A few years back, I remember, I penned down an article, ‘Sri Lanka Thanks Pakistan’; the article was published in various national and international papers and magazines. The background of this write-up was Sri Lanka’s achievement in wiping off the LTTE terrorists and throwing them away from the Sri Lankan lands. In response […]

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Prof. Suwanda H J Sugunasiri (writing from Canada)  Courtesy Island August 23, 2014, 6:21 pm     It was with a deep sense of loss that I read two emails the day following the passing away of Prof. Ananda W P Guruge. On the move always in the service of Buddha Dhamma, he died on […]

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 මාධ්‍ය අංශය තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්‍යංශය    උණුසුම වැඩිවීම හා කාලගුණ විපර්යාස වලට පිළියම් යෙදිමට දැන් සිටම තිර ආයෝජනයක් සිදු නොවුනහොත් ජලය, ආහාර හිඟවීම හා ලෙඩරෝග ආදිය නිසා අද උපදින දරුවනට ආනාගතයේ මහත් විනාශයක් සිදුවීමට ඉඩ ඇතැයි තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්‍ය පාඨලි චම්පික රණවක මහතා ^ 23 & පැවසීය. ප්‍රෝෆුඩ් ප්‍රෝපැක් නමින් බණ්ඩාරනායක සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී […]

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