By Raj Gonsalkorale The words of Abraham Lincoln to honour the soldiers that sacrificed their lives in order that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” were spoken at Gettysburg, but these words apply as well to the countless soldiers that died for the cause of democracy in […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The Indian Ocean is the third-largest ocean in the world. It is 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) in extent. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west, Australia to the east and Antarctica to the south. The Arabian Sea, the Laccadive Sea, the Somali Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman Sea […]

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Dr Sudath Gunasekara Former Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka Introduction The objective of this essay is to briefly explain the story of the origin of the Sinhala nation and how the valiant Sinhalese have defended their motherland  and its culture against all invaders over the millennia  and the history of the never-ending chain […]

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අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය රත්නපුරේ ජනතාව දශක කිහිපයක් බලා සිටි මැණික් කුලුනක් ඉදිවීමේ සිහිනය අද පටන් යථාර්ථයක් වන බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.15 දින පැවසීය. රත්නපුර, දෙමුමාවත මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජාත්‍යන්තර මැණික් කුලුනට මුල්ගල් තැබීම නිමිත්තෙන් අන්තර්ජාල වීඩියෝ  තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සුබ පැතුම් එක් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ඒ අනුව […]

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RT Documentary COVID-19 has dramatically changed the lives of many. A disinfection technician used to be the boss in his old job. But as the pandemic broke out, he wore a gas mask and armed up with a sanitiser spray. He never regretted it. Neither did an entertainment entrepreneur who wore a hazmat suit and […]

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RT Documentary Pavla Nikolaevna is a ‘chumworker’, a housewife in the tundra (Thundra is subarctic flat land with permafrost ground). Together with her husband, they continue their family ideal of driving reindeer herds in the far north. Instead of a regular flat this Russian family prefers a chum, a reindeer fur-covered hut. Even in winter, […]

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Despite decades of development of formal laws and tools for modelling legal knowledge for land rights by lawyers in developed countries, Sri Lankan lawyers stagnated preferring to work with statues of 1888 to 1927, Penal code 1883, Registration Ordinance of 1927 & Notaries Ordinance of 1907.The said countries have systematically moved on to digital land registries […]

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