Dilrook Kannangara From 1969 to 2016 Tamil Nadu was mainly ruled by firebrand politicians including Karunanidhi, MGR and Jayalalitha. They had a tremendous impact not only on Tamil Nadu politics but by extension Tamil politics in Sri Lanka. Over 90% of Tamils in the world live in India; mostly in Tamil Nadu. Only 5% of […]

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By Chandre Dharmawardana Courtesy The Island Image courtesy CGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) According to newspaper reports (The Island 16 October [1]), an NGO carrying the acronym MONLAR has accused that the agricultural policies of successive governments have rendered millions of Lankans insecure”. It claims that as of today, 5.3 million people […]

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පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික වඳ වී ගොස් ඇතැයි සැලකූ කෙතල (Lagenandra) ශාක විශේෂයක් බස්නාහිර පළාතේ කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙහි පාලින්දනුවර ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාස සීමාවේ මෝල්කාව ප්‍රදේශය තුලින් සොයා ගැනීමට පර්යේෂකයන් පිරිසක් සමත්වී තිබේ. වෘත්තීය තාක්ෂණ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ විද්‍යාර්ථයකු සහ ශාක විශේෂ පිළිබඳ අධ්‍යනයෙහි නිරත පරිසර ගවේෂකයෙකු වන පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මහතා විසින් 2022 වසරේ දී පාලින්දනුවර […]

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Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Dambulla Primary School development work begins The construction work of Dambulla Primary School proposed to be developed utilizing the financial allocation of the Provincial Education Ministry of the Central Province, began recently (Oct 23) under the auspices of the State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon MP. Venerable […]

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By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, October 26: The benefits of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy of neutrality was evident during the recent challenges faced on several fronts. Although it was quite evident during the 30 years of conflict as many countries – Pakistan, China, Russia, United States, Israel and India – came to assist at different […]

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Courtesy The Island A gang made-up of former and serving army commandos had been hired to facilitate the escape of underworld leaders Harak Kata and Kudu Salindu from the CID custody and they were to be paid one billion rupees, police said. Security has been beefed at the CID headquarters. It has been revealed that four serving commandos, too, […]

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