H. L. D. Mahindapala Jaffnaites have a rather ambivalent attitude towards their history. Either they go over the top  to glorify their origins and raise it to an imagined past that never existed, or they withdraw into a shell like the snail unable to face their ignominious and inhuman past. Their claims to a glorious […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent  . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1  . Canada 29 December 2021 Dr.Jehan Perera Executive DirectorNational Peace Council of Sri LankaColomboSri Lanka Dear Jehan Perera: I read the statement by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s to the UN General Assembly which was short and dignified.  Expressing his thoughts by saying that there is […]

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MD Pathik Hasan Dhaka, Bangladesh. Five excellent articles praising the ‘Bangladesh Economic Rise Model’ were published in the Pakistan’s major leading dailies recently. Normally Pakistani media outlets don’t publish the positive content related to Bangladesh massively. But this time, Pakistani media start to publish the write-ups on the Bangladesh massively. On the other hand, Sri […]

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Prime Minister’s Media Unit During a meeting with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning at Temple Trees, the CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Mr. Sultan Abdulrahman Al-Marshad expressed continuous support for implementing development projects in Sri Lanka. Prime Minister Rajapaksa expressed his gratitude to SFD as well as the Kingdom of Saudi […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Newly appointed Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission retired Supreme Court Justice Rohini Marasinghe has called for a meeting with the Director CID, Director TID and the head of the Police Legal Division today (29) to discuss cases of those who had been held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 419 today (December 29), the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 586,183. As many as 560,085 recoveries and 14,944 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak […]

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Courtesy Hiru News It is reported that Sri Lanka receives USD 1.5 billion in currency exchange facility from China in Chinese Yuan. Accordingly, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka will receive nearly 10 billion Chinese Yuan, equivalent to USD 1.5 billion. Sources at the Central Bank stated to Hiru News that the money would be […]

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Courtesy Hiru News The Asian Development Bank has agreed to reimburse USD 85 million spent for Sinopharm vaccines, stated State Minister Prof Channa Jayasumana

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