On 10 May 1984 an American couple Stanley & Mary Allen were kidnapped by EPRLF.in Jaffna. The kidnapping was timed with the visit of Snr George Bush former CIA director’s visit to New Delhi. EPRLF demanded Rs.50m in gold paid to the Tamil Nadu Government (very strange request) plus the release of 20 EPRLF cadres […]

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Kalathma Jayawardhane Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Public Enterprise and Kandy City Development Ministry has sent a team of auditors to inquire into the alleged transfer of 21,000 acres of land in the Knuckles Mountain Range to close associates of government ministers, Ministry Secretary Ravindra Hewavitharana told Daily Mirror. He said the auditors were accompanied by […]

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35 acres of Knuckles given to a company to build a hotel – Samantha Vidyarathna නකල්ස් සංරක්ෂණ වනාන්තරයට අයත් අක්කර 35ක් හෝටලයක් හදන්න සමාගමකට දීලා

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By Udaya P. Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today After the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, dual citizens are barred from contesting presidential elections. Hence, government politicians who suffer from Gota-phobia, spread rumours that the US Government had rejected Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s application for renunciation of US citizenship. Some say, the US Government would sit on the application until […]

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by C.A.Chandraprema  June 16, 2018, 7:56 pm There is mounting disquiet in the country over the free trade agreement that the government has signed with Singapore. What they have signed with Singapore is not an agreement that is restricted to trade in goods, but a more comprehensive arrangement that involves the trade in services as […]

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 16 (EconomyNext) – Sri Lankan hotels will need over 100,000 new workers with the number of star-class rooms expected to more than double in the next three years, given the new projects approved, Tourism Development Minister John Amaratunga said. New investments in the hotel sector amounts to USD 2.8 billion in […]

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Govt. has only consolidated their power via constitutional amendments – Mahinda ආණ්ඩුව සිදු කර ඇත්තේ ව්‍යවස්ථාව වෙනස් කරමින් තම බලය තහවුරු කරගැනීම පමණයි

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උපසම්පදා භික්‍ෂුවක් දින හතක කාලයක් චීවරය නොදරා සිටියහොත් භික්‍ෂුත්වය අහෝසි වන බව විනය පිටකයේ සදහන් බව මහාචාර්ය පූජ්‍ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමියෝ පවසති. ඥානසාර හිමිගේ චීවරය ඉවත් කිරීම විනය පිටකයට අනුව කිසිසේත් නොවිය යුත්තක් බවද කී උන් වහන්සේ ඉංග‍්‍රිසි පාලකයන් විසින් වාරියපොල සුමංගල හිමියන් යාපනයේ සිරගෙදර සිර කරන ලද්දේ සිවුරු හරවා නොවන බවත් කියා සිටියහ. සිරගත කර […]

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