By Charles.S.Perera ƒ”š‚ The Commonwealth of Nations is a dying Institution.ƒ”š‚  Australia and Canada if they continueƒ”š‚  their false Human rights mission demanding progress inƒ”š‚  human rights in Sri Lanka, without which they would ƒ”š‚ boycott the commonwealth Summit in Colombo, they may ƒ”š‚ only accelerate its demise. ƒ”š‚ Both Australia and Canada who have suddenly awakened to human […]

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Prof Rajiva Wijesinha, MP I was deeply shocked by various pronouncements in the recent debate in the House of Commons on what was termed the issue of Human Rights on the Indian Subcontinent. Much of the debate was about Kashmir, and several MPs weighed in against India in what seemed a very unfair and biased […]

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Sarath Wijesinghe-Writer is the Sri Lankan Ambassador in the United Arab Emirates ƒ”š‚ Justice and fair play is paramount ƒ”š‚ Justice and fair play is of paramount importance to all members of the World Family consisting of 193 nations expecting justice and fair play equally.ƒ”š‚  It is the principle on which the United Nations Organization was established […]

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By Shelton A. Gunaratne Professor of mass communications emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead ƒ”š‚ Recently, the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Tracking Apparatus (Opera) sent neutrinos from a particle accelerator at CERN outside Geneva, Switzerland, racing some 450 miles to a cavern in Gran Sasso, Italy. Neutrinos are electrically neutral elementary subatomic particles, each of which has a […]

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Dr Hector Perera London What is binge drinking? For the NHS [National Health Service], binge drinking is defined as drinking over double the amount of recommended daily units in one session. For men this is over eight units, and for women, over six. However, because individuals are all different, the rate at which they reach […]

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