By M D P DISSANAYAKE Within a short period of 5 months, President Mahinda Rajapakse has succeeded in reading the minds of Sri Lankans.  Within a short period of 5 months, Rt Hon Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe has miserably failed in reading the minds of Sri Lankans.  In this short period, the Price of  […]

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Courtesy  The New Indian Express COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said he wants to re-open investigations into all past murders and disappearances of journalists. “As the new government, we want to re-open investigations on all disappearances, murders and other challenges faced by the media personnel in the recent past,” Sirisena said addressing an event […]

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Courtesy dna Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is mounting a political comeback, has expressed fears that the separatist Tamil Tigers could regroup and revive terrorism in the country. “We are glad that terrorists are no more. But I have a suspicion that we may return to see terrorism,” Rajapaksa said. “We don’t want […]

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Courtesy Xinhua COLOMBO, May 30 (Xinhua) — The Sri Lankan government on Saturday said that it is in talks with China to extend a highway linking the capital and the deep south. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government is having talks with China to fund the project connecting Colombo and Hambantota in the […]

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Courtesy Ceylon Today The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Sri Lanka on Thursday signed the $107 million second tranche loan agreement of an $800 million multi-tranche financing facility to upgrade roads. “Providing all-weather road access will help link rural communities to socio-economic centres in Sri Lanka, thereby enabling rural communities to reap […]

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By Lakmali Udugampola Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) gives voice to those who cannot speak for themselves – animals who are farmed, eaten, experimented on and otherwise abused. DVA is a nonprofit organization, with chapters located throughout the world. It is committed both to practicing the teachings of the Buddha (the Dharma) and to speaking […]

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 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Emphasizing on all round youth empowerment, the 6th annual Social Business Day was organized by Yunus Centre on 28 May 2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka of Bangladesh. The daylong event with the theme titled ‘We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers—Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship’ was hosted by Nobel […]

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LNW ඔත්තුකරු Courtesy lankanewsweb.today එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය නියෝජනය කරන පක්ෂ 14ක නායකයින් හා මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා අතර ඊයේ (28) පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවේදී හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට සන්ධානයේ අගමැති ධූර අපේක්ෂකත්වය ලබා දෙන ලෙස ඔවුන් කළ ඉල්ලීම ජනාධිපතිවරයා දැඩි ලෙස ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර තිබෙන බව වාර්තා වේ යනුවෙන්  මාධ්‍ය පකීර්ලා යැයි සිතාගෙන සිටින නමුත් මුදල් මත ජනතාවට බොරු […]

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