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Twenty Opposition MPs to support 20A
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarians made their first futile attempt in Parliament on Tuesday, September 22 enacting a big drama protesting against the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. No sooner Justice Minister Ali Sabry presented the 20A Bill to the House, SJB Parliamentarians who began protesting against the Bill later came to the well of the House wearing...
27 September, 2020
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Coming of the New Age
When in two successive silent revolutions the Sinhala-Buddhist voters confirmed, with pencilled crosses, their commitment to regain their lost hopes and heritage and usher in a new age, the stunned political scientists and other assorted pundits, mainly in the media, did not know what hit them. What threw them off balance, in the first place, was the sheer magnitude and...
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Lankan expatriates in Kuwait awaiting return
Over 41,000 expat workers await early return
The first batch of migrant workers bound for South Korea left Sri Lanka last Wednesday, after a lapse of nearly one year due to Covid 19 and border restrictions. While the government put an extra effort to repatriate thousands of stranded migrant workers who were rendered jobless due to the global pandemic and whose job contracts expired the news of South Korea, reviving...
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Udayanga Weeratunga
Bid to tap Russian tourism market
Udayanga unveils blueprint
Tourism industry leaders, especially in the Russian market, welcomed a new proposal forwarded to the Cabinet in a bid to revive the industry by attracting visitors from the Slavic nation to the Southern beaches. “Russian tourists are ready to travel abroad, and tour operators are waiting for approval from the Government to start travelling to destinations, such as ours,”...
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The house after collapse Pic credit Asela Kuruluwansa
NBRO report on collapsed Kandy house due tomorrow
The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) officials will hand over their report tomorrow (28) on the quality of the raw material used to construct the five story building which collapsed and killed a young family in Sangamitta Mawatha in Buwelikada, Kandy early this week. A team from the NBRO collected samples of the raw materials used including metal coils to...
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The rise and fall of The Finance Company
The Finance Company (TFC) was one of the premier financial institutes in Sri Lanka which was incorporated in 1940 and was managed...
Senior DIG Dr. Roshan Fernando to Sabaragamuwa and Uva provinces
Former Royal College athletic captain and Public Schools meet record holder, Senior DIG Roshan Fernando has been appointed Senior...
Environmentalists concerned over illegal trade in leopard parts
Environmentalists have now raised concern that an illegal trade of leopard parts may have continuously gone undetected by the...
What you see is what you know
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” – Jean PiagetThe usage of the words ‘see’ and ‘know’...

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