By Neville Ladduwahetty THE ISLAND – August 6, 2014  http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=107986 August 5, 2014, 7:25 pm Dr. K. Vigneswaran’s (KV) response (The Island, July 28, 2014) to my article of June 9, 2014 titled “India’s call for full implementation of 13-A” has been given a different title: “Full implementation of 13-A”. The difference between them says […]

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Dr. Daya Hewapathirane HIS CONVOCATION ADDRESS Concluding his exceptional Convocation Address at the University of Ruhuna on October 25, 2004, the late Dr. Ananda Guruge said Born in a family hailing from the border of Agaliya and Akuretiya in rural Baddegama, I was blessed with an education which I received from my parents, my teachers […]

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Dr. Tilak Fernando Today’s column is dedicated to three helpless Sri Lankan workers who are stranded and marooned in a foreign land where despite voluntary attempts to rescue them have not been successful up to the time of this column goes to print. The foreign exchange revenue remitted to the country by Sri Lankan workers […]

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Courtesy The Daily News Our front page story today reproduces an External Affairs Ministry Press Release which states that personnel in foreign diplomatic missions should be mindful of local sensitivities when participating in certain types of events. This is certainly true — and in some cases impinges on what can loosely be called diplomatic license. […]

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