By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Many of the scribes, local and foreign including N.Satyamoorthy, P.K.Balachandran, Meera Sri Nivasan et al who write to English newspapers in Sri Lanka hold the opinion that Sri Lankans are damp squibs who still hold a white skin glotifying amglophile mindset.  This vicious phenomenon has been erased to a great […]

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සාකච්ඡා කලේ   වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මේජර් ජාලිය ඈපා ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුද හමුදාවේ සිටි නිලධාරියෙකි. ඔහු 1988-89 භීෂණ කාලයේදී  ඇඹිලිපිටිය ප්‍රදෙශයේ සේවය කලේය. ඔහු ලොව පුරා ආන්දෝලනයට ලක්වූ ඇඹිලිපිටිය  පාසල් සිසුන් පැහැරගෙන ගොස් අතුරුදහන් කිරීම පිලිබඳ  සිද්ධියේ එක් චූදිතයෙකු වූ අතර  ඒ සඳහා අධිකරණයෙන් වරදකරුවෙකු වී සිරදඞුවම් ද ලැබීය. වර්තමානයේ  සිරෙන් නිදහස්ව නිහඞ ජීවිතයක් ගත […]

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By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada I am glad that Grusha Andrews (GA) has given me another opportunity to discuss agrochemicals and the scientific approach to the elucidation of causative factors of ill health and disease. The readers may  note Grusha Andrews’  tone of the holy Inquisitor, nay of the Nazi Sturmabteilung in dealing with  myself, Dr. […]

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Just about six months into its operations, and the Hambantota port is gearing up to become the No. 1 port in the region. A combination of factors, carefully designed and put together is set to propel this port to the top slot in the maritime world map; a place well deserved considering the port’s unique […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera Walkers Colombo Shipyard using 1200 ton Shiplift and 60 ton Boat lift Sri Lanka recently declared that by 2022, export earnings should reach staggering 22 billion US dollars .Out of six main areas to be developed, boat building is taking priority. Sri Lanka will lose the chance of becoming a boat/ship-building hub in […]

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