Asada M Erpini A four-man team that went to Tamil Nadu for an International Karate Tournament had to leave the country, according to reports in Express News Service on 22 July, which had also been reproduced in the local media. The Sri Lankans were forced to abandon their proposed participation in the event due to […]

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A patrioticƒ”š‚ son of Sri Lanka – 22nd July 2012. ƒ”š‚ Justice has to be fair. Rishad Bathiudeen the Hon. Minister of Industry and Commerce has been accused by the Mannar magistrate of threatening him and interfering in a judicial order made by the magistrate. The rule of law has to definitely take it’s course of action. […]

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Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. ƒ”š‚ Sometimes this whole world is just one big prison yard. Some of us are prisoners, the rest of us are guards. “ƒ¢¢”š¬‚ Bob Dylan ƒ”š‚ Psychologist Albert Bandura once said “Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards”ƒ”š‚¦helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and […]

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Dr. Mrs. Mareena Thaha Reffai My brother who was waiting at the Katunayake International airport for ƒ”š‚ his flight to Qatar, ƒ”š‚ went to the prayer area to pray. There he left his brand new shoes at the shelf outside the prayer area but when he returned after prayers only one shoe was found- the other was […]

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by Walter Jayawardhana After jointly bashing Sri Lanka over the ethnic Tamil issue political arch rivals in Tamil Nadu have now started attacking their other neighbor , the state of Karnataka for their scarcity of water in one voice. Both DMK leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi and his arch rival Chief Minister Jeyalalitha Jeyaram have issued scathing […]

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by Janaka Perera The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) in its final Declaration read out at the conclusion of the 26th General Conference held in Yeosu, South Korea from June 11- 16, 2012, called on humanity, among other things, to extend compassion and loving kindness to all living beings as advocated by the Buddha. The […]

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