KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay deals with two aspects of the bomb blast which do not get much attention. The bomb blasts sent many people to hospitals with grave injuries. This brought pressure on the hospitals concerned.  Sunday Times did an interview on this. The major hospitals worked with clinical precision, at very short notice, in […]

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By M D P DISSANAYAKE There is an argument that the legislature cannot deprive the right to live, under any circumstances.  This is the view held by some Western Nations. The last death sentence in Australia was in 1967.  The debate started again in 2002 after Bali bombing where 202 Aussies were killed.  Similarly Sri […]

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Free Speech TV GUEST: Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, member of the Honduras Solidarity Network. BACKGROUND: June 28th marks the tenth anniversary of the US-backed coup in Honduras that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya and unleashed a new chapter of violence in the Central American nation.  The coup was backed by the Obama Administration and especially by then State-Secretary Hillary Clinton. […]

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සිරිමන්ත රත්නසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින සිංහල මව්වරුන් වඳභාවයට පත් කළා යැයි කියන වෛද්‍ය ෂාෆි සාබ්දීන් සම්මත ක‍්‍රමවේදයෙන් බැහැරව පමණක් නොව සම්මත ක‍්‍රමවේදයන් අනුවද සිංහල මව්වරුන් වඳ භාවයට පත්කර ඇතැයි මහාචාර්ය චන්න ජයසුමන මහතා ඊයේ (03 වැනිදා* විශේෂ හෙළිදරව්වක් කරමින් අනාවරණය කළේය. ඒ මෙම වෛද්‍යවරයා මවුවරුන්ගේ අවසරයකින් තොරව වඳ භාවයට පත් කරන ඛඍඔ සැත්කම් එකොළහක් සිංහල […]

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Courtesy Business Standard Maldives ($9,310 or Rs 6,36,432) and Sri Lanka ($4,060 or Rs 2,77,542) are the only two countries in South Asia in the upper-middle-income group Mumbai: India continues to be a lower-middle-income country along with 46 others, while Sri Lanka has climbed to the upper-middle-income group for the fiscal year (FY) 2020, according to the […]

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Ananth Palakidnar Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka is a paradise for Israelis according to Israeli Ambassador to India and Sri Lanka, Dr. Ron Malka who was on a three day visit to the Island. Speaking to Ceylon Today on Israel – Sri Lanka relations, Dr. Malka said that several countries had alerted their citizens over travelling to […]

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