| Tamara Kunanayakam is back in Geneva |
Tamara Kunanayakam, Sri Lanka’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, was re-elected by acclamation last Monday as Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council’s Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development, which held its 14th session from 13 to 17... |
| 21.05.2013 - 08:01 |
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| Muslims and the War on Terror |
A tipoff from a prominent Toronto imam more than a year ago appears to be at the heart of arrests at the end of April in the alleged VIA Rail terror plot in Canada. In fact, counterterrorism police began their press briefing by thanking Muslim leaders.
Even in the Boston marathon tragedy, national... |
| 21.05.2013 - 06:34 |
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By Faisal Kutty |
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| The Feast of Mother Mary in Florence in Italy |
The annual feast of Mother Mary in Florence was celebrated on Pentecost Sunday in grand scale.
Very Rev. Mons. Neville Joe Perera presided the Holy Mass with the procession of the statue of Mother Mary with Fr.Samantha Perera and Fr. Stepheno, the diocesan director for migrants in Florence.
The Bu... |
| 21.05.2013 - 02:48 |
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| Visit of High Level Buddhist Delegation to Japan |
Maha Nayaka of the Amarapura MahaNikaya, Most Venerable Davuldena Gnanissara Thero and Maha Nayaka of the Ramanna MahaNikaya Most Venerable Napana Premasiri Thero visited Japan from 9th to 16th May accompanied by a high-level delegation of Buddhist clergy.
The Most Venerable Maha Nayaka Theros visi... |
| 21.05.2013 - 02:16 |
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| Dead Jackson makes more money than living Bieber! |
Michael Jackson’s estate has made more money through ticket sales in the four years since his death than the ‘Thriller’ performer made during his lifetime.
His posthumous sales are believed to amount to more than living young idol, Justin Bieber or any other single living artist during the same ti... |
| 21.05.2013 - 02:09 |
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S.H.Moulana - Riyadh |
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| Turtle Conservation in Sri Lanka |
Our good friend Dr. Kingsley Mariadasan was an 8 year old boy when his father found work in Europe in the 1970s. He had his education there and started visiting Sri Lanka as an adult - first as a volunteer doctor during the tsunami days and subsequently he keeps coming - a homing pigeon.
The en... |
| 20.05.2013 - 08:05 |
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By Shani Calyaneratne Karunaratne |
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| The Center should immediately appoint Chairman of CFMG, CFSB |
It didn’t take long for the underground related violence to have steep rise after Chairman of the both Cease Fire Monitoring Group (CFMG) and Cease Fire Supervisory Board (CFSB) Maj Gen (Retd) N George resigned from the post.
He resigned from the Chairmanship of both CFMG and CFSB at a time when Ch... |
| 20.05.2013 - 07:08 |
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By Oken Jeet Sandham |
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| Bangladesh – A Nation Divided? – Part 7 |
In 2010 the Government of Bangladesh (GOB), led by the Awami League (AL), set up an International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) court to prosecute the people who allegedly committed war crimes during the liberation war. It was part of her 2008 election promise and touted as an effort to "provide justice for... |
| 19.05.2013 - 08:53 |
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By Habib Siddiqui |
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| Plummeting Gold Price: ultimate index of uncertainty |
Gold, which fell to a level as low as $1339 an ounce on Thursday, did recover some of its battered value by a few dollars by the weekend, while leaving millions of investors in the lurch before the chaotic fluctuations of its value on computer screens.
The price, which crashed to a two-year-low a f... |
| 19.05.2013 - 07:54 |
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Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… |
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| President Mahinda Returned Yesterday |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa who was on a four-day official visit to Uganda returned to Sri Lanka yesterday morning.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa commenced his four-day official visit to Uganda - the East Central African country, on May 11th afternoon.
This was President Rajapaksa’s sec... |
| 18.05.2013 - 06:52 |
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| Call to improve asthma care and control |
When there are evidence-based methods to control asthma effectively, then why is the disease burden growing over the past 30 years, particularly in the low- and middle- income countries?
This fact is stated clearly in the Global Asthma Report 2011 published by the International Union Against Tuber... |
| 18.05.2013 - 03:52 |
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Rahul Kumar Dwivedi - CNS |
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| Will President Obama emphasize R2P on Thein Sein? |
America’s new Burma policy adopted by the Obama administration, a combination of increasing engagement and maintaining economic sanctions, was the prime mover in urging Thein Sein to introduce reforms after more than half a century of repressive military rule, when he became an elected head of state... |
| 18.05.2013 - 03:44 |
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By Kanbawza Win |
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| US blacklists four Syrian ministers, Nusra leader |
The United States on Thursday blacklisted the leader of the militant Al-Nusra Front fighting the Syrian regime, as well as four top Syrian government officials, including the defense minister.
Al-Nusra's chief Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani was designated a global terrorist by the US State Department, whi... |
| 18.05.2013 - 03:34 |
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| The unsung heroines of the slums |
Pratima refused to finalize the marriage of her son till her husband agreed to construct a toilet in their house located in a Kanpur slum.
She did not want her daughter-in-law to suffer the same fate of open defecation as she did. Sushma raised the banner of women’s education, persuading her illit... |
| 18.05.2013 - 03:08 |
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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS |
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| Release of handbook on the “India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement” |
A Handbook on the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement was released on 15 May 2013 by Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister for Industry and Commerce, Government of Sri Lanka and Ashok K. Kantha, High Commissioner of India. The handbook was brought out by the High Commission of India in collaboration with... |
| 17.05.2013 - 11:50 |
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| Can Suu Kyi remove constitutional barriers in advance? |
Actually, it is too early to start election campaign for Burma's next general elections which are two-year time away from now. But, Major parties like Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) and National League for Democracy (NLD) have now brought to light 2015 elections in order to gain enough se... |
| 17.05.2013 - 07:39 |
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By - Zin Linn |
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