Courtesy  NDTV COLOMBO:  India topped the number of tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka at 206,337 followed by the Chinese tourist whose figures stood at 136,294. Indian tourists visiting Sri Lanka may soon be exempted from visa requirement as the government is mulling granting visa free entry to visitors from countries like India and China, Tourism […]

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By Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka would go to a presidential election sometime during the next year as the presidency enters the final year of its five year term in January 2019. The prospect of a new Constitution, which may also require the approval in a referendum is diminishing. And even the […]

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Dr Hector Perera        London There are so many cooking programmes in British TV, almost on daily basis. One thing I didn’t notice is there was no technique to save energy and to avoid any cooking aroma while cooking, still the programme producers give priority to their kind of cooking.  While cooking so many other gases […]

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පූජ්‍ය බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමි දේශපේ‍්‍රමී භික්ෂු පෙරමුණේ ලේකම් ජාතික හිමිකම් සංවිධානයේ සභාපති. ”විනයෝනාම ශාසනස්ස ආයු” විනය යනු ශාසනයේ ආයුෂයයි යන්න බුද්ධ වචනයක් නොවුණත් එය සත්‍යයකි. ඒ නිසාම ඉතිහාසය පුරාම ථෙරවාදී භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ බුද්ධ විනයට අනුගතව ක‍්‍රියා කිරීමට උත්සාහ දැරූහ. බුද්ධ වචනය පිරිසුදුව සුරක්ෂිත වීමට අදාළ වූ ප‍්‍රථම ධර්ම සංගයනා මෙන්ම දෙවැනි හා තුන්වැනි ධර්ම සංගායනා […]

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Aug 6 (Xinhua) – Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota port is gearing up to become a leading port in the Indian Ocean region, a port official said on Monday. CEO of the Hambantota International Port Services (HIPS) Ravindra Jayawickreme said the location of the Hambantota port had always been extremely advantageous as it […]

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