KAMALIKA PIERIS Kurundi vihara has the distinction of being Sri Lanka’s first contested Buddhist site. That is due to the kovil-temple” tug-of-war going on at the site, thanks to the Tamil Separatist Movement.  The kovil announcement got a lot of publicity, mostly negative. The skeptical   public wanted to know exactly when this ‘ancient’ kovil had […]

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Press Release by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaát – Sri Lanka. 128th Annual Convention (Jalasa Salana) of Qadian (Punjab, India) is being held on 29th, 30th and 31th, December, 2023. Thousands of Ahmadi Muslims from all over the world attending this three day convention which will be chaired by President, Ahmadiyya Muslim […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec. 27 (Daily Mirror) – The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) today announced that people should only buy mobile phones that have been approved by the Commission. Addressing the media TRCSL Deputy Director of Compliance, Ms. M. Pathirana, requested consumers check the IMEI number to verify the phone […]

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 By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec.27 (Daily Mirror) – The appointment of the members to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has now been delayed for nearly one month due to difference of opinion between the Constitutional Council (CC) and the Executive on the nominees, Daily Mirror learns. An […]

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By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 27: The International Debt Report 2023 of the World Bank has put Sri Lanka’s external debt in 2022 at US$ 58.7 billion. Bondholders and private creditors accounted for 72% of the external debt. The break-up is as follows: Bondholders (32%); Other Commercial Creditors (8%); Private Creditors (40%); Multilateral Creditors […]

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By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The origins of democracy go back many centuries. The UK was the first to be recognised as a democracy, and it is maintained thus far. Some say that even today, democracy in the British Parliament is so tolerant that it is a democracy that has gone beyond its limits. Other […]

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C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. (දැනට අවුරුදු 18 කට පෙර (2/13/2006) ලියන ලද මෙම ලිපිය මගේ පරණ පරිගණකයක තිබී අහම්බෙන් මට දැක ගන්නට ලැබුණි. එහි සඳහන් වන සමහර පංචස්කන්ධ දැන් ජීවත්වන්නේද නැත. ඒ වෙනුවට කරලියට බැස යූටියුබ්, ෆෙස්බුක් හරහා සංවිධානත්මව ලංකාවේ බුද්ධ ශාසනයට වටකරගෙන පහරදෙන ඩොලර් නඩ අතර අන්දමන්ද වූ සිවුරුදරාගත් අය පවා සිටී. මෙම මතෘකාව […]

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Courtesy Adaderana A team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is currently recording a statement from former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella at his residence, the police said. The relevant statement is being recorded over the controversial sub-standard Immunoglobulin import issue, according to police. Accordingly, a team of officers from the CID had visited the Environment […]

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Ada Derana Ex-Health Minister requested CID to obtain his statement? Former Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella was not interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) as a suspect or an accused in the controversial sub-standard Immunoglobulin import issue, but the minister voluntarily provided a further statement to the CID, according to Attorney-at-Law Manoj Gamage. Furthermore, […]

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