19A inclusion of Dual Citizenship was specifically targeted at preventing Gotabaya Rajapakse from contesting Presidential Elections and requiring to revoke citizenship which created a thorny situation with US declaring him and Shavendra Silva as war criminals. Geetha Kumarasinghe had to forfeit her Parliamentary seat as she was honest enough to declare she was a dual […]

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Chanaka Bandarage Impressions Edward Henry Pedris is one of Sri Lanka’s least recognized National Heroes.  He was killed by the British more than 105 years ago in Welikada Prison, on the charge of Treason. True a statue of him was unveiled by the Prime Minister Premadasa in 1987, and a playground and a stadium were […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS JVP was given a new lease of life when the UNP came to power in 1977. Under the previous SLFP government JVPers were brought before the Criminal Justice Commission, (CJC) a special tribunal set up through a special Act of Parliament. JVPers were charged with waging war against the lawfully elected government, breaking […]

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අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අමරපුර මහා නිකායේ සිරිසුමන පාර්ශවයේ මහා නායක ආචාර්ය කොලොන්නාවේ සිරි සුමංගල මහා නාහිමියන්ගේ ඡන්ම දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් පන්නිපිටිය ශ්‍රී දෙව්රම් මහා විහාරයේ ඉදි කළ සුවිසි විවරණ මන්දිරය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට අද 2020.09.24 දින ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එක්විය. පළමුව ආගමික වතාවත් සඳහා එක් වූ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අනතුරුව දුටුගැමුණු රජතුමාගේ […]

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By Ishara S. KODIKARA Courtesy Japan Today Sri Lanka’s president has ordered the termination of a $1.5-billion Japanese-funded light rail project, saying it is not a “cost-effective solution” for the congested capital Colombo, officials said Thursday. The deal signed under the previous government is the largest single foreign-funded infrastructure project in Sri Lanka, and was […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Two arrivals from Qatar & 02 from Kuwait tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,333.

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Courtesy  Hiru News The Russian national who was diagnosed with coronavirus while staying at a hotel in Matara was taken to the Hambantota Hospital. The hospital director Suranga Ubeysekara stated that with the second PCR test conducted the reports has come negative. However, he said they would take biological samples tonight and conduct another PCR […]

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