Garvin Karunaratne, Former GA Matara Proceeding to Scotland from  London after a gap of a few years  I came across many new wind turbines again and again. They all churn out electricity from the wind power, mind you the wind power is far less than in our hills at Nuwara Eliya and Madugoda. I have […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay   provides some information on three Buddhist centers in the north east, Tiriyaya, Kantarodai and Jaffna. Like Kurundi, Tiriyaya also had links with Anuradhapura kingdom. It is the closest temple to Kurundi. Tiriyaya is 82 Km from Mullaitivu, 2 hours drive by car. Tiriyaya vihara has asked for more land. Department of […]

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මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්          යාපන දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ උරුමය ඉඩම් ඔප්පු ප්‍රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සවයේදී පුරාවිද්‍යා ඉඩම් සම්බන්ධව ජනපතිවරයා කළ ප්‍රකාශය පිළිබඳව නැවතත් සමාජයේ අවධානය යොමු වී තිබේ.මීට ප්‍රථමයෙන් 2023 මැයි මාසයේ දී ජනපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ පැවති ඉඩම් කළමනාකරණ  රැස්වීමකදී ද මේ බැව් ප්‍රකාශ වී තිබුණි. එහිදී පුරාවිද්‍යා ඉඩම් සම්බන්ධව පුරාවිද්‍යෘ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයා ට යොමු කරන ලද ප්‍රශ්ණවලට ඔහුට […]

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Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon chaired a special media briefing at the Disaster Management Center in Colombo to educate the media on measures put in place to face any bad weather related emergencies, today (May 27). State Minister Tennakoon stated that a total of 55406 people […]

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ජයවීර කුමාරසිංහ නිදහසට පෙර ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බහු ජාතික සමාගම් වල ජ්‍යෙෂ්ට විධායක නිලතල හොබවනු ලැබුවේ සුදු ජාතිකයන් පමණි. එවන් වකවානුවක, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ෂෙල් බහු ජාතික සමාගමේ (Shell Company of Ceylon) පිරිස් පාලන අධ්‍යක්ෂ, සුදු ජාතික, සෙන්පති WHS බිඉංග් මහතා, එවකට නිදහස ලබා ගැනීමට ඉතා ආසන්නව සිටී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පුරවැසියෙක් තම සමාගමේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ට විධායක කළමනාකරණ තනතුරකට […]

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by LankaPropertyWeb Land prices bounce back to growth in the latest Land Price Index by LankaPropertyWeb. Theoverall land prices in the Western Province increased by 7.8% compared to the previous year,according to the 2024 Western Province Land Price Index (LPI), developed byLankaPropertyWeb (LPW). The Land Price Index (LPI), updated annually, monitors the trendsin asking price […]

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by Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Ontario Courtesy The Island The Memorial in Brampton, Ontario to mark an alleged genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sri Lanka has rejected the allegation of a so-called genocide” in Sri Lanka made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on 18 May 2024. Canadian leaders do […]

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By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Diplomat The arrest of four Sri Lankan ISIS operatives in India underscores the persisting threat posed by Islamist extremism in the country. May 27, 2024 On May 20, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested four Sri Lankans suspected to be Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists, at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel […]

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2013 Key locations identified with the lives of important religious founders have often been extensively remodelled in later periods, entraining the destruction of many of the earlier remains. Recent UNESCO-sponsored work at the major Buddhist centre of Lumbini in Nepal has sought to overcome these limitations, providing direct […]

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