Saeed Naqvi The speech last Friday by the Hezbollah Supremo, Hassan Nasrallah, arguably the most popular leader in the Arab street, has evoked mixed responses. The less familiar with the caverns of West Asian affairs expected the speech to be a precursor of greater fire power in support of Hamas to deter more Israeli barbarity […]

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Chanaka Bandarage One of the most magnificent buildings in Sri Lanka is the Nuwara Eliya Post Office, built by the British in 1894. It is a Tudor Style, 2 storied building with a clock spire. It’s reddish walls and the roof, along with the immaculately maintained large lawn adds much colour to the  already grandiose […]

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by Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island I decided to patronize a cinema after several years to watch a movie. I am glad I did so because the film brought back happy memories of Muttiah Muralitharan, the spinning wizard and, in my opinion, the greatest cricketer Sri Lanka has produced. The movie 800 is about the […]

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Ruwan M. Jayatunge (A medical Doctor/ Author and an Associate Professor)  Culture consists of traditions, values, customs, folklore,   rituals, and artifacts that help to make meaning of the physical world and its transmitted primarily through language and everyday interactions.  These cultural factors frequently play as trauma buffers and help the victims to come to […]

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Manusha Media ගෘහ පාලිකාවන් ලෙස විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්ව යන ශ්‍රමිකයින් සදහා දින 28ක පුහුණුව අනිවාර්ය කිරීම මගින් ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට ආරක්ෂාව මෙන්ම වැඩි වැටුප් ලබාදීමට හැකියාව ලැබී ඇති බවත්, මෙයට විරුද්ධ වන ඇතැම් ජාවාරම්කරුවන් මේවායින් රිංගා යාමට උත්සාහ ගන්නා බවත් පුහුණුවක් ලබාදෙන බව පැවසූ විට ඇතැම් විදේශ රැකියා නියෝජිත ආයතනත් කලබල වන බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ […]

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Prime Minister’s Media Unit New Ambassador of Iran Alireza Delkhosh paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees today (November 6). The Ambassador referring to the friendship and close sociocultural ties between the two countries since ancient times, assured that he would work for further expansion of economic and cultural […]

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Courtesy Sky News The seldom-used law means cricketers coming to the crease to bat must be ready to face their first ball within a set time. A Sri Lankan batter has become the first player in international cricket to be ‘timed out’ in a controversial moment in the World Cup. Angelo Mathews was given out […]

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Shenali D Waduge The JVP-plugged NPP is not the JVP that Rohana Wijeweera created. The rank & file of those that survived insurrections in 1972 and 1980s will no doubt agree. Many of these today feel disillusioned, having sacrificed their lives & even members of their family for a cause that has cheated them of […]

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