By Charles S. Perera Geoffrey Robertson, you are a well known lawyer, but you are way off the mark in your defending Shirani Bandaranayake the impeached Chief Justice of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is being discredited and vilified in Geneva in view of a resolution USA is supposed to move against Sri Lanka at the […]

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By Garvin Karunaratneƒ”š‚  Ph.D(Michigan State University)ƒ”š‚  Formerlyƒ”š‚  of the SLAS. Currently in Genevaƒ”š‚  in the Sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC) we are seeing in action a United Nations that has become the policeman of the world, and that too on a double standard basis. Gone are the days of the Fifties and […]

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Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge York University Canada I first met Dr. D.V.J Harischandra in 1998 when he came to deliver a presentation on Euthanasia at the Brown’s Beach Hotel in Negombo that was organized by the Clinical Society of the Negombo Hospital. On that day he gave an outstanding presentation on Euthanasia and Medical Ethics […]

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Dilrook Kannangara UNHRC has been ridiculed by many UN members over its short life span. The conduct of UNHRC violates the UN Charter on members and as a result it has become ineffective. Unlike the UN or the UN Security Council, the UNHRC cannot impose any real punitive measures on any country. According to USA, […]

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Sri Lanka News A group of Buddhist monks from the Buddhist pressure group “Bodu Bala Sena” stormed aƒ”š‚ Colombo abattoir today and found that the meat being distributed from the location is from animals slaughtered without a license in the other part of the Island. The monks claimed that the meat of over 300 animals which […]

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By Shelton Gunaratne ƒ”š‚ Responding to my review essay on paticca samuppadaƒ”š‚  (Lankaweb, 25 Feb. 2013) commentator Ben Silva shouts, “BUT IN SCIENCE WE NEED VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE AND A SOLID BODY OF THEORY, obeying known laws of nature. Is journalist Shelton G an expert on molecular biology, genetics, epigenome field etc. to talk about the mechanics […]

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Dr Hector Pereraƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  London Sometimes the students need some day today examples to remember certain things in chemistry. To some students this subject chemistry is little mysterious to understand because the name also sounds like che-mystry. There are plenty of reactions taking place in the surrounding, including at home but unless they are explained in […]

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Dr.Tilak Fernando As a schoolboy I was fascinated with writing Sinhala Kavi and short stories, some of which got published in Sinhala news papers to my surprise! It was D. B. Dhanapala, the veteran journalist and Editor at Independent Newspapers Group, who encouraged me to sharpen my refractive areas in communication when he published five […]

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