Disaster Risk Management and Planning

As a member of the SAARC and a country that participated in the development of the South Asian Comprehensive Regional Framework on Disaster Management adopted by the SAARC Council of Ministers for the 2006 - 2015 period, Sri Lanka notes with concern that some countries in the SAARC sub-region are placed relatively high on the index.

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Vocational and technical training a fillip to development

Vocational and Technical Training Minister Piyasena Gamage briefed the Daily News on the developments in the vocational and technical training sector, especially in view of the rehabilitation process taking place following the end of the war against terrorism.

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Mervyn de Silva’s 10th death anniversary falls today:

Mervyn de Silva and the Lankan condition

MERVYN DE SILVA described himself as a liberal and a humanist. He was both these things but not of a sort that shied away from the subject of warfare. He would have been a shrewd observer of the epic endgame of the Eelam wars. He would have done so with no trace of enthusiasm for either side but empathy for both, as would a literary critic with a grasp of tragedy or a masterful cricket commentator like John Arlott

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