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Sunday, April 10th, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz. (Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 8th April, 2022, at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, U.K. gave a discourse on Striving in the Way of God, During Ramadan and Beyond & Launch […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2022
Anjalika Silva – USA I. Purpose: To examine all avenues available to find appropriate avenues to address the current foreign reserves crisis with the help of a ready resource of foreign earners as expats for a long-term relationship beneficial to the country and individuals who are a strength that has not been tapped while many […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga “The clarion call in Mirihana and many other demonstrations and opposition protest meetings was a clear message of Gota go. Even a few political commentators have gleefully echoed this call. Gota can be expelled only under Section 38 of the Constitution where he resigns or ceases to be a citizen of Sri Lanka […]
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
Nimal Abeysinghe Deciding what to do when you leave school is tough. It becomes a nightmare for students and parents alike when you suddenly find yourself not having enough marks to qualify for a place in a university. Every year about 270,000 students face this dilemma. Let’s delve a little deeper into the unpleasant statistics. […]
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
by A. Abdul Aziz Religious blasphemy laws can be a touchy subject, especially in Pakistan, where just bringing up the subject of the blasphemy laws and whether they are right or wrong is considered, well …blasphemous. This wasn’t always the case. The sentiment behind most blasphemy laws is easy to understand. No person or group […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Prof. Asoka N.I. Ekanayaka · Fundamentally racist · Indifferent to corruption · Inherently selfish · Basically foolish though imagining themselves to be wise, and · Afflicted with a malignant distorted religiosity Prof. Asoka N.I. Ekanayaka This article is not primarily about the woeful record of the present government. Nor is it about the abomination of […]
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Saturday, March 26th, 2022
Chula Rajapakse MNZM/ Spokesperson USLA The year began with the communal strife stirring news that A Tamil Genocide/ Mullivaikal Remembrance day ,along the lines of those in Ontario Canada, was to be observed at meeting to be held on the 18th May’21 in Auckland, , the day before the Ranaviru commemoration in Wellington. Spurred on […]
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Friday, March 25th, 2022
Jubeda Chowdhury Dhaka city Military diplomacy has long been one of the essential constituents of international diplomacy and an effective methodology, to foster bilateral and regional relationships. Military training cooperation is an essential component of military diplomacy and helps to build close ties with other nations. Such cooperation also helps to strengthen strategic security relationships […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz On February 13th, 1835, in the small Indian village of Qadian, Punjab, India, a man named Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadwas born. He belonged to a well-known and noble family. All religions contain prophecies that foretell the advent of a special individual, who will come as a reformer in the latter days. In […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Married too young, many girls get married by 18 despite societies’ advancements and that will cost the developing world trillions of dollars Mama, why am I going with this strange man?For your safety, my dear But Mama, he scares me, he’s hurt me, everywhere, I don’t feel safe Oh honey, it’s […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
Jubeda Chowdhury Dhaka city The good news for both Myanmar and Bangladesh is that Myanmar-Bangladesh’s trade ties are going to be normalized and strengthened day by day. For example, Myanmar has decided to import 3,000 tons of cement to Rakhine from Bangladesh after the State chamber of commerce and industry urged the center to grant […]
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Jubeda Chowdhury Dhaka city January 13, 2022, marked the 50 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. But there weren’t any seminars, discussions, statements, reciprocation, felicitations between the two neighbors to mark the special day. There were many ups and downs between the […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
බ්රිතාන්ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි කොළඹ ආනන්දය රටට බිහිකළේ ෆොන්සේකා, කරන්නාගොඩ, වීරසේකර, ගෝඨාභය වැනි රණවිරුවන් පමණක් නොවේ. ලොව ඉහළ පෙළේ ඉංජිනේරුවන් හා වෛද්යවරුන්ට අමතරව සාහිත්යය ලොව බැබළ වූ පත්තර කලාවේ පතාක යෝධයෝ දුසිම් ගණන්ද ආනන්දය රටට දායාද කළේය. ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න, සිසිර පරණතන්ත්රී, ජටිල වැල්ලබඩ මෑතකදී පුවත්පත් ක්ෂේත්රයේ ඉහළටම ගිය ආනන්දීයයන්ගෙන් […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
ප්ර සමරසිංග හැටනව ලක්ස ආරස්සාවයි!හිතවත් ගොටයියේ,මේ ලියමන කොහොම පටන් ගත්තොත් හොඳද කියා නිනව්වක් නැත. බොලාගේ සැප සනීප කොහොමද, මා නං සැප සනීපෙන්ය, කියා ආදි-කාලෙ ලියුං කරදහි පටන් ගත්තැහෙ පටන් ගන්නටද හැක. ඒත් නැත්නං, වැල්වටාරම් නැතුව කෙලින්ම කාරණාවට බහින්නටද ඇහැක. කොයි හැටි වෙතත්, හැටනව ලක්ස පිහිටෙන් ගොටය්ය සනිපෙන්ය. බොලා වාගේම බඩපිස්සෙක් වන මට නං එහෙම නැත. […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga 1.CURRENT STATUS With impressive improvements in health and nutrition the latter half of the 20th century has resulted in a revolution in longevity, which in Sri Lanka today is 76.98 years (2019). With high fertility in the past and rising life expectancies in the future, the number of elderly is rapidly increasing and […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2022
Prof. Asoka Bandarage Alas, many outstanding Sri Lankan scholars, journalists and social change activists have passed away in recent months. Here, I would like to honor a few of them personally known to me, some known more closely than others. While I am not able to do justice to the breadth and depth of each […]
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Sunday, March 6th, 2022
ප්ර සමරසිංහ ජයදේව සුරවීර නොවිසිරිනු මනසින් ලොව දකින රාජ්ය පරිපාලන සේවයේ නියැළුන අව්යාජ විශ්රාමික පියෙකි. සුරනි සුරවීර ඔහුගේ ප්රිය බිරිඳය. ඇය ඉතාමත් ගුණගරුක විශ්රාමලත් ගුරුමාතාවකි. “පුංචි පවුල රත්තරං” කියමින් හොරණෑ පිඹු යුගය එන්නට මත්තෙන් පවුල් පන්සල් වූ මේ දෙපලට දුසිම් බාගයක් ඉක්මවූ දූ දරුවන් සිටියහ. දෙමහල්ලන්ගේ අරමුණ වූයේ තම දූ දරුවන් යහපත් නැණවත් පිරිසක් වනවා […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2022
Emilia Fernandez University of Lucerne, Switzerland On December 10, 2021, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on Bangladesh’s elite paramilitary force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and seven of its current and former officials accusing of human rights abuses and abductions. Even though US-Bangladesh has been enjoying a cozy relationship since the birth of Bangladesh, this […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
Jubeda Chowdhury Bangladesh The Rohingya and Afghan refugee issues are also currently important international issues. More than 1.1 million Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017 due to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. About 50,000 newborn Rohingya children are added to it every year. Earlier, the Rohingya had been subjected to systematic […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Sinhaladeepa Jathika Peramuna It has been reported in the media that the SL Government has decided to take a neutral stand in regard to the Ukraine issue. Since the year 1948 Russia is maintaining the super power balance against the USA and it should be that way because if the USA were given a monopoly […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) යුක්රේන ගැටුම සහ එය අවසන් නොවී දිගට ඇදීමෙන් බටහිර මාධ්ය බරපතල ලෙස අසරණ වන අතර ඉංග්රීසි කතා නොකරන රටවල් වන ප්රංශය, ජර්මනිය, ඉතාලිය, නෙදර්ලන්තය, ජපානය, කොරියාව, චීනය වැනි රටවල් ඇමෙරිකාවට සහ එංගලන්තයට සහාය නොදෙන බව ලෝකයට පෙනෙන්නට පටන් ගනී. ඉංදියාව සහ අරාබිය එක්සත් ජාතීගේ ආරක්ෂක මණ්ඩලයේදී ඇමෙරිකාවට සහ එංගලන්තයට […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
John Rozario Karnataka, India One of the long-standing unresolved issues between Bangladesh and India is the Teesta water-sharing agreement. The agreement between Bangladesh and India on Teesta water sharing has been discussed for the last few years. But the Teesta issue has stopped with assurance. After the Ganges Treaty in 1996, the issue of distribution […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga The question before policy makers today is whether to seek a bail out from IMF and face a certain devaluation of the rupee. It is like the proverbial curate’s egg. Sri Lanka has had several devaluations of the rupee. I am not aware whether a proper evaluation of the impact of devaluation on […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Mehjabin Bhanu Rajshahi City Corporation in Bangladesh A six-day joint exercise titled ‘Exercise Cop South-2022’ participation of Bangladesh Air Force and US Pacific Air Force under the direction of the Armed Forces Department and under the management of Bangladesh Air Force Air ended at Bangladesh Air Force Base Bangabandhu on 25 February 2022 (Friday). 36th […]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2022
By, Professor Dr. Nishan C. Wijesinha George Turner, an English officer in the Ceylon Civil Service, translated the first 38 chapters of the Mahavamsa (termed the Great Dynasty ending with King Mahasen) from Pali to English which was published in 1837. With his death at the age of 44, the balance chapters 38 to 100 […]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga The country is in the midst of a acute power crisis. If we ignore the immediate problem of dearth dollars to buy fuel the present crisis is mainly due to the Yahapalana government not investing in a single new power generation unit. The dollar crisis will exacerbate with oil prices expected to go […]
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් රන්ජිත් අප අතරින් වෙන්වී 2/16 ට අවුරුද්දකි ලස්සන ජීවිතයක් අපූරු.දක්ෂ මිනිහෙක් බුද්ධිමත් මිනිසෙක් කිට්ටු මිතුරෙක් අමතක නොවන ජීවිතයක් මහාචාර්යවරයෙක් අවුරුදු 47 කට පෙර අපි හමුවුණා කැම්පස් හිදී මුල් දවස්වලම නව පරිගණක විද්යාගාරය වාඩිලාගෙන පස් දෙනෙකුගෙන් යුත් පර්යේෂණ පරිගණක කණ්ඩායම ඔහු පිහිටුවා ගත්තේය HYR ඔහුගේ අවසන් වසරේ සිසුන් අතලොස්සකට එකතු වුණා ශිෂ්ය වර්ජන නැතිකරන්නට […]
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Sunday, February 13th, 2022
බ්රතාන්ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත් ලෝකයේ ඉතා ප්රසිද්ධ හා ජනප්රියතම රජු හෝ රැජන වන්නේ අන් කිසිවකු නොව බ්රිතාන්යයේ දෙවැනි එළිසබෙත් මහ රැජනයි. පසුගිය වසරේ මහා බ්රිතාන්ය පුරාම ජනතා ආදර කැමැත්ත පිළිබඳ පැවැති ඡන්ද සමීක්ෂණයේදී ජනතාවගෙන් 75%ක්මතමන් ඉතාම කැමැති රජ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයා මහා රැජන බවට ප්රකාශ කර […]
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Jubeda Chowdhury from Dhaka, Bangladesh Is India Bangladesh’s true friend and well wisher? It is a question of century. How India and Bangladesh can become a real friend in South Asia? India and Bangladesh can show the world how neighbouring countries can become all-weather friends. Bangladesh-India bilateral relations are a role model in the world […]
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ජයන්ත හේරත් ශ්රී ලංකා ජනගහණයෙන් 98%කට දැන් විදුලි සැපයුම ඇත. එය 1970 ගණන්වල තනි ඉලක්කම්වලට සාපේක්ෂව දැවැන්ත ප්රගතියකි. මුළු ජනගහණයටම අන්තර් ජාලා ස්මාර්ට් ෆෝන් සැපයුම ඇත. එය 1980 ගණන්වල 80,000 ට සාපේක්ෂව විශාල ප්රගතියකි. උසස් අධ්යාපනය සඳහා එම 98-100% ඉලක්කය සාක්ෂාත් කර ගැනීම වැදගත්ය. අපට ප්රායෝගික ඉක්මනින ක්රියාත්මක කළ හැකි ප්රතිපත්ති සහ විසඳුම් අවශ්යයි. දේශපාලන […]
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