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Sat, 24 Aug 2019 Today's Paper
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Ajith Kumar’s Nerkonnda Paarvai that is being screened countrywide is a film that every youngster -- especially teenage girls -- should definitely watch. Parents too should make sure to watch this film as it gives a very down....
7 hours ago - 0 - 26
Sunday, August 18 marked DIG B.M. Bodhi Liyanage’s second death anniversary. He was a good-hearted sportsman and promoter of sports. A religious ceremony will be held today in Kandy....
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As the month of August draws near.... My heart stings and my mind is confused....
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It is with a sense of sadness that I write about my loving wife VICTOREEN MARINA HASSAN. We got married on the 8th October 1968 and spent a happy and peaceful life for almost 40 long years. She passed....
23 Aug 2019 - 0 - 71
So far more governors
23 Aug 2019 - 0 - 42
A multitude of religious offerings in Buddhist faith continue to dominate the calendar of Buddhist events in Sri Lanka, giving pride of place to the Full Moon Poya day phenomena in the months of ‘Duruthu’, ‘Nawam’, ‘Vesak’, ‘Poson’, ‘Esala’...
23 Aug 2019 - 0 - 67
Watching the small screen, the massive crowd at the Galle Face Green on Sunday last, (August 18, 2019) at the nomination of the Presidential candidate of the JVP, was amazingly attractive.
22 Aug 2019 - 0 - 190
Iceland on Sunday honoured the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the sub-arctic island risk the same fate.
22 Aug 2019 - 2 - 740
Sri Lanka has a coastline running approximately 1600 km where about one-third of the population lives. Of late, natural and man-made phenomena have heightened coastal erosion, causing danger and environmental degradation along many coastlines. Erosion takes place when wind, waves and long-shore currents move sand from the shore and deposit it elsewhere.
22 Aug 2019 - 0 - 83
C. Narayanasuwami’s book entitled Managing Development; People, Policies and Institutions is a carefully and handily crafted compendium containing 24 papers on development management with special reference to developing countries. The book is divided into four parts;
21 Aug 2019 - 0 - 214
Australia is the world’s third-largest emissions exporter with more than a billion tonnes of Carbon Dioxide shipped abroad each year in the form of coal and liquefied natural gas, a think-tank study showed last Monday.
21 Aug 2019 - 0 - 59
For the 69th successful time, the annual Bellanwila Esala Perahera will parade the streets this month. Since its commencement in 1950, this remarkable cultural and religious event has – except on a few occasions – taken to the streets in grandeur.
21 Aug 2019 - 0 - 85
To Kelaniya residents, flooding is a recurrent horror story. The intermittent disruption caused to their day to day lives, the anger and frustration of being removed from their homes, and the damage caused to person and property, have tormented them for years.
21 Aug 2019 - 0 - 156
Despite many popular automobiles such as the Toyota Aqua and Prius being seen as low to mid-range vehicles in international markets, successive Sri Lankan Governments’ aggressive taxation regimes and tariffs mean that they are priced as luxury vehicles in Sri Lanka and are out of the reach of most buyers.
21 Aug 2019 - 0 - 53
‘Acupressure program for a healthy life’, a programme organised by one of Sri Lanka’s leading acupuncturists, Deshamanya Master Dr. Cyril Antony will be held on August 25 and September 8 from 9 am onwards in Wattala.
21 Aug 2019 - 0 - 158
A wearable robotic exoskeleton chair, named ChairX, which aids industrial workers to sit while working, has been developed by a group of undergraduates attached to the Bionics Laboratory of Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Moratuwa.
21 Aug 2019 - 0 - 161
As the country’s political arena is taking new turns with the upcoming Presidential Polls, several candidates – amateur and senior- have expressed their interests. It’s in this backdrop that the National Peoples Movement (NPM) has been established to attract professionals in order to make a change. The Movement believes that existing politician-centred culture has led Sri Lanka
20 Aug 2019 - 2 - 740
Millennials (born between 1981-1996) and Post-Millennials (born 1997-present) are causing a stir by announcing they would not have children (or limit the amount of children they have), due to the uncertain future surrounding climate change.
20 Aug 2019 - 2 - 3004
Her worn-down, skeletal frame flooded social media posts in a matter of seconds. Online petitions were signed, others called for justice, some called to boycott peraheras while the international wildlife community criticised us once again. All this was for Tikiri – a 70-year-old female elephant who was seen parading a pageant organised by the Sri Maha Vishnu Devalaya, one of the
20 Aug 2019 - 0 - 83
Mega Pride, a three-day photographic exhibition featuring images of lions captured by Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka during his African tours, was launched yesterday at the Dutch Hospital in Fort. Below is a statement issued by Minister Ranawaka on the occasion.
20 Aug 2019 - 0 - 142
On August 4 (Sunday) 28-year-old evangelist and father of four, training under the Methodist Church, was allegedly attacked by three Buddhist monks after finishing a service at a house in Weragantota, Mahiyanganaya, Bishop Asiri Perera disclosed.
19 Aug 2019 - 0 - 149
Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism was revisited at Keti Katha Kiyawamu, a literary discourse held at the Colombo Public Library recently. Discussing three stories, Sunnadduli by Ajith Thilakasena...
19 Aug 2019 - 0 - 127
Readers would remember that in my previous article, I made mention that our college (Jaffna College) was co-educational and that a little more than a third of the students were girls, with varying degrees of good looks.
19 Aug 2019 - 0 - 30
A thrilling performance by Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma’s Santoor ensemble at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) here on Thursday, was a fitting finale to the Indian Independence Day celebrations in the Sri Lankan capital.
17 Aug 2019 - 0 - 160
The 37th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Colombo University Alumni Association was concluded recently at the Senate Hall, College House, Colombo University. Alumni President Rajeev Amarasuriya and office-bearers were elected for a further term.
17 Aug 2019 - 0 - 51
It gives me a great sense of pleasure to pen an appreciation to celebrate the life of my beloved father. Vernon Francis Siriwardene passed away peacefully on Sunday eve, the day after Vesak full moon Poya day, three months ago.
17 Aug 2019 - 0 - 124
Each star that rises in dusky twilight, Each flower that opens petals small and white, Growing through the day and dangers all, At day’s end will fade and fall.
17 Aug 2019 - 0 - 48
Lord Buddha was at an assembly addressing monks when Patachara, grieving the loss of her entire family, stark, naked, raving mad, with no mind of her own, ran to the compassionate one.
16 Aug 2019 - 0 - 977
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist and Olympic athlete Björn Ferry have stopped flying in an attempt to save the environment. This idea around reducing (or not flying at all) has become so well-known in their home country of Sweden that there is now even a word for it -- ’Flygskam’ (pronounced fleeg-skahm) or ‘flying shame.’
16 Aug 2019 - 0 - 110
Yesterday was India’s Independence Day and was celebrated by India’s Jaffna Consulate – an event that Jaffna looked forward to as one of its important festivals with good food and Indian artistes com
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