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Presidential Election:
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
The Presidential Election 2010 seeks to give a
mandate for a second term for President Mahinda Rajapaksa. This
article looks at the issues before the electorate and other matters
connected with a Presidential poll
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The Morning Inspection - Malinda
Anyone for a weak government?
One of the biggest criticisms of the executive
presidency is the concentration of power in a single individual or,
as the former Chief Justice Sarath N Silva said recently, ‘the
accumulation of power in a single institution comprising of one
person or several, whether elected or hereditary’. Silva, quoting
James Madison, says this would be the definition of tyranny.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah :
Man of great vision in South Asia
Birth anniversary on December 25:
“We have, undoubtedly, achieved Pakistan and
that too without war and practically by moral and intellectual force
and with the power of pen which is no less mighty than the sword and
so our righteous cause has triumphed.” These are the words of
Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan and Father
of the Nation broadcast from Lahore on October 30, 1947 after the
creation of Pakistan.
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Badulla district stands high in the past and present Sri Lanka
Badulla is a district in Uva Province in Sri
Lanka. The entire land area of the Badulla district is 2,861kmý and
total population is 837,000. The district is bounded by the
districts of Moneragala and Ratnapura on the East and South, by
Ampara and Kandy districts on the North and by Nuwara Eliya and
Ratnapura on the West. There are nine electorates in this district.
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