Dr. P. Attanayake. I am writing to bring up an important environmental issue related to Hambanthota Industrial Zone.  If this issue is not addressed now, it may result in serious ecological and human health problems in the near future. As we all know, foreign companies will be setting up industries in the newly created Industrial […]

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Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, After massive damage had been caused at Gintota, to people’s lives, property and morale,  the Muslim politicians visiting the  place, having meetings and expressing their views and promises is – to say the least –  shameful. Where were they when the problem was brewing, when the damage was being enacted by […]

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IMRC Iriyagolle Ayubowan, We cannot allow India, any other country or any other force to dictate to us.  The country must develop a strategy to destroy the enemies within first,  the corrupt, destructive, selfish and sadistic politicians who have become ‘pawn brokers’ to remain in power by any means.   The nation should consider rejecting […]

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Editorial Courtesy The Island November 20, 2017, 9:26 pm There are many Sri Lankans who evince a fetishistic interest in George Orwell’s immortal works. They may wonder whether the literary genius had a premonitory vision of the future of a tiny, teardrop-shaped island in the Indian Ocean, when he authored the dystopian, allegorical novella, The Animal […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 20, 2017, 11:08 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said the government hadn’t taken any policy decision to instruct the state-owned banks to make bids at the treasury bond auctions at lower interest (yield) rates. PM Wickremesinghe said so answering a question posed by Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya, PC, […]

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By Chandre Dharmawardana My article entitled Why do ‘Vanniye-Attho’ and NCP Farmers get CKDu while their cows don’t?” produced several curious responses (Lanka Web, 17-11-2017) which fit in with the well-known way in which proponents of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories extend their claims when faced with the actual facts. Basically, they spin additional explanations that […]

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