Sangadasa Akurugoda US President Joe Biden’s much-advertised ‘Summit for Democracy’ held in early December, is an example of how the champions of so-called democratic world misuse the name of ‘Democracy’ to promote their geo-political interest. As pointed out in an article appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, the composition of the summit reflects a combination […]

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MD Pathik Hasan France has historical relations with Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s contact with France dates back to the war of liberation. Relations between Bangladesh and France have historically been cordial. The foundation of this relationship was laid in the distant past. The contribution of the French in the liberation war of Bangladesh is also memorable. The […]

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by Hafizur Talukdar Debt-ridden Bangladesh a few years ago is now a country of unprecedented success in debt relief. The world today looks at Bangladesh in amazement. Bangladesh only borrowed from other countries or organizations. Now that history has changed and started giving loans. Bangladesh has given loans to Sri Lanka and Sudan. Bangladesh gave […]

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ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති සිංහල භාෂාව යනු අවුරුදු දහස් ගණනක් තිස්සේ මෙ රට ජනයා විසින් වර්ධනය කොට පෝෂණය කළ සාමූහික උරුමයකි. එහෙයින් ජනරජයේ අනන්‍යතාව තහවුරු කරනු ලබන ජනතාවගේ සාමූහික අයිතිවාසිකම්” අතරට සිංහල භාෂාව ද අයත්විය යුතුවෙයි. මෙම ප්‍රවාදයෙන් අර්ථදැක්වුණු සාමූහික අයිතිවාසිකම්” යටතේ එම කරුණ දක්වා තිබේ. මෙම සාමූහික හිමිකම ආරක්‍ෂා කොට පෝෂණයකිරීම ජනරජයේ වගකීමක් බව ද […]

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By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today On Human Rights Day this year, the US sanctioned a number of individuals and entities in several countries for alleged human rights violations. Among these were individuals from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. While the two Sri Lankans sanctioned were low-level military personnel (Lt. Com. Chandana Hettiarachchi and Army Sergeant […]

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Courtesy Ceylon Today The Governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Québec recently ordered facial recognition Company Clearview AI to stop collecting — and to delete — images of people obtained without their consent. Discussions about the risks of facial recognition systems that rely on automated face analysis technologies tend to focus on corporations, national governments […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The general public should not have any undue fear when using liquefied petroleum gas, says the Litro Gas Limited Chairman, Theshara Jayasinghe. He also noted that there is no change in the composition of Litro’s LP gas, adding that steps have been taken to obtain recommendations from foreign experts in this regard. The […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Fuel prices have been increased with effect from today (Dec. 21), the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said.  Accordingly, the price of 92 Octane Petrol has been increased by Rs. 20 per litre with the new price declared as Rs. 177 per litre. The price of 95 Octane Petrol has been increased by Rs. […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 524 today (December 20) as 107 more people were tested positive for the virus, the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 580,209. As many as 557,621 recoveries and 14,771 […]

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