Dr Sudath Gunasekara: President Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Puravesiyange Sanvidhanaya 18. June. 2011 It was reported in the press on 14th June 2011 that the government has decided to assign the Parliament the task of drafting a political solution to the so-called North-East crisis. Further it is learnt that President Mahinda Rajapaksa would make a […]

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By Shelton A. Gunaratneƒ”š‚© 2011 Professor of mass communications emeritus at Minnesota State U Moorhead ƒ”š‚ Responding to my column labeled “Notes on Buddhist Journalism”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚1,”ƒ”š‚ Namarupa D. Andre tells me that “journalismƒ”š‚ deals with the honest treatment of current news and comment,”ƒ”š‚ whereas Wikipedia, which scholars are not supposed to use as an authority, tells me that […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando – Courtesy The Islandƒ”š‚  June 22, 2011, 12:00 pm Maj. Gen. Amb. Shavendra Silva takes on pro-LTTE HR lobby in New York on Tuesday. An attempt to drum up support for the controversial “ƒ”¹…”Darusman Report’ and documentary “ƒ”¹…”Sri Lanka Killing Fields’, produced by the UK-based Channel 4 News, in New York on […]

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ƒ”š‚ “Cerberus” South Indians are supposed to be original indigenous people of India who were pushed down by successive Greek, Persian and Moghul invasions. Even to date after thousands of years the people in the North are mostly fair skinned with light eyes with a happier temperament while in the South they are more dark skinned […]

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In Through the Out Door Mr. Gordon Weiss, the Spokesman for the United Nations in Sri Lanka during the end of war on terror, made claim to his fifteen-minutes of fame recently:ƒ”š‚  Grand publicity was given to the ceremonious signing of his new book.ƒ”š‚  However, there had been a little fly-in-the-ointment in Mr. Weiss’s ceremony:ƒ”š‚  […]

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By Eymard de Silva Wijeyeratne-Courtesy The Islandƒ”š‚  The gathering of Anglo-Saxon clans and their servile Asian butlers (that include a few Sri Lankans) are making a strenuously concerted effort to present a concocted charge of war crimes against Sri Lanka’s armed forces. C4 of the BBC is now trying hard to provide pictorial evidence of […]

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The Media Team Ministry of Power & Energy The Minister of Power and Energy Addressing the CIMA Business Leaders Summit 2011 stated that: ƒ”š‚ According to the 2010/2020 CEB Financial statement, the CEB was expected to endure financial losses during this 10 year period. However Minister Ranawaka stated that through the implementation of tough financial management […]

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