It was no coincidence that colonial Britain wished to administer then Ceylon separate to India. It is no coincidence that colonial Britain kept Ceylon citizens as guinea pigs for modern divide & rule strategies. All that is now unfolding should be viewed as a catalyst of the outcome of colonial strategies adopted via conversions, […]

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By Ranjith W. Dharmaratne Courtesy The Island By now, it is common knowledge that a significant number of people from farming communities living in the North Central Province (herein referred to as Rajarata) suffer from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Over the past three decades, a number of investigations on the causes of CKD have been conducted, […]

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By M D P DISSANAYAKE In politics, when fighting an election, there are two plans, Plan A and Plan B. Plan A:  Formulate a broad based plan to win the election.  Primary purpose of Plan A, will be to WIN the election.  Avoid isolating voters, bring them into your fold.  Do not provide any weapons […]

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Kanthar Balanathan Gautama Buddha Quote: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha ) Gautama Buddha AKA Buddha’s period is c.563 or c. 480 BCE. The evidence of the early texts suggests that Siddhartha Gautama was born into the Shakya clan, a community that was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the eastern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE.[34] One of his […]

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Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader of the Opposition On this auspicious Thai Pongal day I wish to convey my greetings towards a prosperous and peaceful future to everyone celebrating. Thai Pongal is not only a day to celebrate the bounty of harvest, it is also a day for all to be grateful for a rich and fulfilling life. […]

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මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ විපක්‍ෂ නායක අද දින තෛපොංගල් සමරන දමිළ ජනතාවට මම සාමය, සතුට පිරි සෞභාග්‍යමත් අනාගතයකට සුබ පැතුම් එක් කරන්නේ ඉමහත් ප්‍රීතියෙනි. කෘෂිකාර්මික ජීවිතය හා බැඳුණු ජනයාගේ අස්වනු නෙලන අවස්ථාව සමරනු ලබන මෙම මහෝත්සවය, ගොවියන්ට පමණක් නොව අප සියලු දෙනාටම සුහදත්වය සහ අන්‍යෝන්‍ය අවබෝධය උදා කර ගත හැකි වැදගත් අවස්ථාවක් වන බව මගේ විශ්වාසයයි. මෙම උත්සවයෙන් […]

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I am delighted to convey my greetings and good wishes to all those who are celebrating the Thai Pongal throughout Sri Lanka and abroad on Tuesday. Being my maiden Thai Pongal message to the nation as Governor of the Western Province,  I feel happier and more honored to pass on my sincere greetings on this […]

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ශී්‍ර ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා • අපරාධ වැඩිවෙලා දිනපතා මනුෂ්‍ය ඝාතන සිදුවෙනවා. • නව ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවකට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී5වරු එකගනැති බව සහභාගීත්වයෙන් පැහැදිලි වෙනාවා. • රජය යැපෙන්නේ දෙමළ සන්ධානය මතයි. රජයේ ප්‍රමුඛ අරමුණක් විදියට පෙබරවාරි 04ට පෙර නව ආණAඩු ක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කරනවාලූ. ඊට පෙර වාර්තා පහක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළා. ශී්‍ර ලංකා […]

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by Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. I thank the Lankaweb editor for publishing a  note about the recent unanimous re-affirmation of the safety of the herbicide glyphosate by a team of 20 Canadian scientists. See: http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2019/01/12/health-canada-concludes-new-review-of-glyphosate-herbicide/ When this news item appeared in the Lankaweb, two commentators responded to it. I felt that those comments should be responded […]

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