Dilrook Kannangara At last the government is doing something about the ice mafia. It is a very lucrative industry and the mafia is fighting back. The mafia cannot fight the police or the STF directly as they know it will be their end. Instead they agitate sections of the people to support them and save […]

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Tilottama Rani Charulata There is nothing new about the impact food has on politics. In the old days, many kings practiced food diplomacy in entertaining their guests; from serving the best unique dishes that could have been created only by the royal house’s finest chefs. The tradition continues in the modern political world. Many leaders […]

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Samina Akhter According to the government-to-government pact between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Myanmar has conveyed over 140,000 tonnes of white rice to Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar .Myanmar and Bangladesh inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rice trade on 8 September this year.In line with this MoU, Bangladesh has agreed to […]

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By A. Abdul Aziz, Chairman, Press & Media Desk Ahmasiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. Ahmadiyya Muslims from number of countries including Sri Lanka are expected to participate in the 127th annual congregation of the community (Jalsa Salana) to be held December 23, 24 and 25  at Qadian in Punjab, India. In 1891, the founder of Ahmadiyya […]

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චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ මේ දේශපාලුවනට ඇත්තටම පිස්සුද? පසුගිය යහපාලන රජයේ සිමා නිර්ණ කොමිසමේ නිර්දේශ අනුව උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර සිංහල ගම්මාන වලින් සමහරක් එම පළාත් වලින් ගලවා උතුරුමැද පළාතට අනුයුක්ත කල යුතුය. මෙයින් වන්නේ උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර සිංහල ජනගහනය තවත් අඩු විමය. වත්මන් රජය මේ මෝඩ නිර්දේශ ක්‍රියාත්මක නොකරනු ඇතැයි උදක්ම පතමු. දකුණ අද ජනගහනයෙන්  පිරි ඉතිරි ගොස්ය. මිනිසුන් පර්චස් 2 […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Mihintale Raja Maha Vihara Chief Prelate Valahagunawewa Dhammarathana likened monks in universities to the Taliban. The Thera made these comments stating that laws should be drafted to limit the number of years students can engage in academic activities at universities. They can engage in politics, but in a way that doesn’t […]

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Courtesy Adaderana China will donate 90 million RMB (5 billion LKR) worth of school uniform material to Sri Lankan students to meet 70% of the whole country’s requirement in 2023, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said. Accordingly, the first batch of finished material of 3 mln meters of finished material in 38, 000 boxes via […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to discuss with all the Mahanayake Theros to come to an agreement on the academic and administrative affairs of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the Cabinet has also decided to close the university until then, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

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Courtesy Adaderana As part of ongoing investigations into the murder of prominent businessperson Dinesh Schaffter under mysterious circumstances, authorities have uncovered several new leads. Following the murder of Janashakthi PLC Director, Dinesh Schafter on the December 15, the Homicide and Organised Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had launched an investigation in collaboration […]

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