Akurugoda While speaking at the ‘Annual Hindi Day’ event held in the Indian consular office in Jaffna, the acting Indian High Commissioner (HC) S.T. Murthy has pointed out that at least 50% of the Indian population knows the Indian main language and similarly Sri Lankan Tamils also should learn Sinhala Language in order to grow […]

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Shenali D Waduge  Politicians desire power. To gain power they need votes. For votes they need people. To win votes spending on lavish propaganda is not enough. People want action and people are also literate enough to know the dynamics of power politics which is why regime change tactics have all failed in Sri Lanka. […]

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 Shenali D Waduge Butterfly is a film by Vishnu Vasu screened at the National Film Corporation in August 2014. Its characters were REAL and their stories were equally real. The question is why have these stories never once been taken up by officials of the UN, the foreign envoys and delegations present at the UNHRC […]

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By Chandre Dharmawardana Kidney disease in the North Central Province (NCP)  was unheard of till about the mid 1970s. Dr. Ramachandran identified it in the 1990s and gathered evidence to show that  it cannot be due to the usual causes.  Hence it has been named Kidney-disease of unknown aetiology (CKDU)”. More recently it has been  […]

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චන්ද්‍ර ධර්මවර්ධන විසිනි උතුරු-මැද පලාතේ දැනට පැතිරී ඇති වකු ගඩු රෝගය ගැන කිසි ඉඟයක්වත් 1975 කාලයේ දී තුබුනේ නැත. ප්‍රසිද්ධ වකුගඩු විශේෂඥ්යෙකු වූ රාමචන්ද්‍රන් මහතා 1995 දී පමන මෙය අලුත් මාදිලියක ගුප්ත-හේතුක චිරාපත් වකුගඩු රෝගයක් (ක්රොනික් කිඩ්නි ඩිසීස් ඔෆ් අන්නෝන් ඊටියොලොජි ) බව නිරීක්ෂනය කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය සාධක එකතු කොට වෛද්‍ය සඟරාවක ලිපි පල කලේය. මෙදා […]

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By Janaka Alahapperuma President Mahinda Rajapaksa has vested in the public the modernized ‘Old Dutch Hospital’ which is a world heritage site, as a sophisticated shopping complex. The landmark Dutch Hospital building within the Galle Fort, refurbished as an exclusive modern shopping complex by the Government. The President graced the opening ceremony as the Chief […]

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