KAMALIKA PIERIS Deborah de Koning’s doctoral research was on Ravana in post war Sri Lanka. The title of her thesis is: Ravanisation: The Revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in Post-War Sri Lanka. The thesis is published online under the title: The Many Faces of Ravana (2021). The full text is available at https://pure.uvt.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/59020919/De_Koning_The_Many_15_12_2021_incl_kaft.pdf Deborah […]

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Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The outgoing Defence Attaché of the Embassy of Switzerland in Colombo, Colonel Francois Garraux made his farewell call to the Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte today (Jul 22). The outgoing Defence Attaché was accompanied by the Deputy Ambassador H.E. Olivier […]

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Prime Minister’s Media Division * Even at the time Western colonists came to this country, we were a developed nation in every way… * We were a developed nation at the time we had to surrender… * We were the first nation to defeat the imperialists… it was by Kings Mayadunne and Rajasingha of Sithawaka… […]

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Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon today morning (July 21) graced the launching ceremony of the Project of City Campus of Technology – Dambulla which will be the latest addition to General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU). Hon. Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, Member of Parliament and the […]

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 CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 22 (Daily Mirror) – Considering their speeches on political stages about the Easter Sunday bomb attacks, all these political leaders should be in prison and have no moral right to preach or talk about the incident, Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera […]

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Courtesy Hiru News The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the provision of interest-free loans to agribusiness entrepreneurs and farmers under the first phase of the Agriculture Modernization Program took place today (22) at the Presidential Secretariat. The MoUs were signed between the Bank of Ceylon, the Regional Development Bank who are the […]

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