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Natural Disasters
One’s thoughts, deep concern and sorrow; the media and peoples’conversation has been the late November cyclone.
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December 07, 2025
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Are the security forces enemies of the JVP?
The JVP held its 36th annual mega commemorative rally, “I Viru Samaruva” last November in Colombo to salute their comrades who laid their lives at the hands of their ‘enemies’, when they had valiantly struggled for the supreme objective of creating a socialist society in Sri Lanka in 1971 and in the 1988-’89 period.
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December 07, 2025
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Trump pardons former Dominican President, Juan Hernandez
Who had been convicted by a New York Court for trafficking illegal drugs
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December 07, 2025
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IFJ urges Lanka to protect freedom of expression amid emergency law concerns
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged Sri Lanka's government to honour its pledge to uphold freedom of expression.
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December 07, 2025
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Impossible translations: why we struggle to translate words when we don't experience the concept
Speakers of languages with such “evidentiality” systems can learn to speak languages — like English — without them. Yet native lan- guage habits turn out to be hard to break. One recent study showed speakers of some languages with evi- dentiality add words like “reportedly” or “seemingly” into their statements more often than native English speakers.
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December 07, 2025
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National Archives seeks freezing capacity to ward off mould from vital water-damaged documents
The Department of National Archives Friday made an urgent appeal for freezing capacity to protect from mould vital water damaged documents, particularly irreplaceable public records of legal value saying this would be be time buying exercise before mould destroys them permanently.
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December 07, 2025
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Rajasthan HC: “Adults can be in a live-in relationship even without attaining marriageable age”
The Rajasthan High Court has ruled that two consenting adults are entitled to be in a live-in relationship even if they have not yet reached the legal age for marriage.
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December 07, 2025
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Putin's first India visit in four years highlights deepening strategic ties
Modi Reiterates “India Is on the Side of Peace\"
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December 07, 2025
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HUTCH Joins Nation's Rebuild Effort with Rs.60 Million Contribution to 'Rebuild Sri Lanka' Fund.
HUTCH Sri Lanka has donated Rs 60 million to the 'Rebuild Sri Lanka Fund', instantly stepping forward to support the nation rebuilding following Cyclone Ditwah.
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December 07, 2025
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Lalith Athulathmudali: an exceptional minister who managed time and got the best out of his team
His hallmark was efficiency, wit and much more
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December 07, 2025
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How climate change fuels extreme weather: What Sri Lanka's recent disasters tell us
Sri Lanka has always lived with the moods of the monsoon.
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December 07, 2025
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A Chinese Monk's View of Ancient Sri Lanka
Between the years 629 and 645 AD the famous Chinese monk Xuanzang traveled through Central Asia and India to visit Buddhist sacred places, learn from Indian teachers and collect copies of Buddhist scriptures.
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December 07, 2025
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The Catastrophic Impact of Tropical Cyclone Ditwah on Sri Lanka: A Comprehensive Examination of Human Loss, Environmental Devastation, and Governance Failure
Tropical Cyclone Ditwah, which blew its way across Sri Lanka between November 27 and November 30, 2025, has emerged as one of the lengthiest, destructive natural disasters in the country's modern history.
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December 07, 2025
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ComBank joins ‘Liya Shakthi’ scheme to further empower women-led enterprises
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has reaffirmed its longstanding commitment to advancing women’s empowerment and financial inclusion, by partnering with the National Credit Guarantee Institution Limited (NCGIL) as a Participating Shareholder Institution (PSI) in the newly introduced ‘Liya Shakthi'’ credit guarantee scheme, designed to support women-led enterprises across Sri Lanka.
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December 07, 2025
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Pathfinder Foundation Conducts a high-level event on Management of Public Finance
The Pathfinder Foundation conducted a high-level event, focusing on the theme 'Managing Public Finance: The South Asian Experience'.
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December 07, 2025
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More to come with climate change?
What a dreadful ordeal Sri Lanka is going through!
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December 07, 2025
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LSSP claims NPP/JVP policies not left-oriented as promised
Former Minister of Science and Technology and senior LSSP leader Prof.
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December 07, 2025
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CEB's Power Heroes restore electricity amid Cyclone Ditwah devastation
Sri Lanka's national electricity network is gradually returning to normalcy after Cyclone Ditwah inflicted unprecedented damage across the island.
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December 07, 2025
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Met Dept. issues fresh weather warning
The Department of Meteorology has warned that rainfall is expected to increase across the country in the coming days as the southwest monsoon becomes more active.
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December 07, 2025
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Why are we avoiding Test matches like the plague
There's a glut of riveting Test cricket going on around the world, the kind that warms most fans hearts.
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December 07, 2025
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Judging Language
SNS: Anew study examining 75 years of constitutional bench verdicts has opened an uncomfortable but necessary conversation: India’s highest court, even while expanding constitutional protections for Dalits, has often spoken in ways that perpetuate the very hierarchies it seeks to dismantle. It is a paradox that sits at the heart of India’s democratic journey ~ progressive outcomes expressed through regressive vocabulary, and justice articulated in idioms that still carry the scent of caste.
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December 07, 2025
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State Engineering Corporation under Kulasinghe and the lead-up to an amusing incident
Central electorate.
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December 07, 2025
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Dangerous classes
Employment has been downplayed as a measure of the economy’s health
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December 07, 2025
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Why are we failing to end one of humanity's oldest and most pervasive injustices?
Ending gender-based violence is human rights imperative
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December 07, 2025
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Celebration of taste, culture and elegance
This year’s edition of Italian Cuisine Week in Sri Lanka unfolded with unmistakable charm, elegance and flavour as the Italian Embassy introduced a theme that captured the very soul of Italian social life Apertivo and' Stuzzichini'
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December 07, 2025
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Share a Book, Brighten a Child's Future!
You can also get involved with Sujaya Book Bridge (Sujaya Poth Palama), which provides library facilities and books to children across our country who are in need of library and stationery resources.
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December 07, 2025
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Govt says minimum damage to tourism infrastructure; ready to receive foreigners
ECONOMYNEXT - Stakeholders in Sri Lanka's tourism industry say the island nation is ready to receive tourists as usual in the Winter season as Cyclone Ditwah-hit devastation has minimal damage on the tourism infrastructure.
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December 07, 2025
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Cristiano Ronaldo backs Indian-led Al firm Perplexity in latest tech play
Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has taken a high-profile step into artificial intelligence by investing in Perplexity AI, the fast-growing \"answer engine\" founded and led by Indian-origin entrepreneur Aravind Srinivas from Chennai.
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December 07, 2025
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World Athlete of the Year Mondo Duplantis – in his words
Swedish pole vault sensation Mondo Duplantis reflects on his season and looks ahead to 2026 in this article which appeared in World Athletics website after the world record-breaker and world champion received the 2025 World Athlete of the Year award.
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December 07, 2025
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Putin in Modi's India
That was no ordinary greeting; on the frosty evening of last Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Modi embraced Russian President Vladimir Putin in a bear hug at Delhi airport and, within moments, presented him with a copy of the Bhagavad Gita in Russian.
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