Eng Harsha Kumar Suriyaarachchi (Former Vice chairman of NWSDB, Former General Manager of Water Resources Board) I am sure the readership here is well aware of the severity of the CKDu epidemic in SriLanka. Some say tens of thousands of people in Rajarata have already perished due to CKDu and hundreds of thousands of people […]

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by Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. A few years ago a newspaper report (Sunday Times, 2013) stated that Sri lankan rice took second place in a twelve-country list of rice containing high amounts of the toxic  metal known as cadmium. Many people even now claim that Sri Lankan rice has excess cadmium (Cd), and that this […]

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 Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester  . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 22 December 2016 Honourable Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Your Eminence, Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Re: End of the Year, the State of […]

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By Manekshaw Courtesy Ceylon Today Adele Anne, widow of the late LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham, has lambasted a pro-LTTE expatriate Tamil organization for claiming that it has the urn containing the ashes of the late theoretician and making arrangements to build a monument with it in memory of him in London. Anton Balasingham, following the death […]

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කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය, සමන් ගමගේ සහ චමින්ද සිල්වා උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ සැකසීම සඳහා වන ව්‍යවස්‌ථාදායක අනුකමිටුවේ නිර්දේශ පිළිනොගැනීමට ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා තීරණය කර ඇත. මේ බව ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ නියෝජිත පිරිසක්‌ සමඟ 22 වැනිදා පැවැත්වූ සාකච්ඡාවකදී හෙතෙම ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබේ. මෙතෙක්‌ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඒකීය රාජ්‍යයක්‌ ලෙස හැඳින්වුවද ව්‍යවස්‌ථාදායක අනුකමිටුව මගින් එය එක්‌සත් […]

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