Revival of Buddhism and theosophists

Sri Lanka has been a leading Buddhist country. It is not quite correct to speak of the decline of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. The invaders tried to vanquish it by subjugating this peace-loving land which did not believe in the rule of the arms.

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The Morning Inspection

On Upali S Jayasekera’s ‘Guidelines for the Voter’

Upali S. Jayasekera, who writes frequently to the newspapers, has made a decision regarding what kind of candidate he would vote for. He has approached the issue from the opposite direction, actually, outlining the kind of candidate he would not vote for.

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PARALLEL Perspectives

Peak optimism drives economy forward

A Western economist amazed at Sri Lanka’s economic resilience despite a global slowdown remarked that policy makers were getting it right almost flying by the seats of their pants. Even the most conservative analysts concurred that the economy is on an upward driving spiral.

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Era of bottle lamps will be ended:

Meeting the electricity demand by 2012

Continued from yesterday

Work on the second stage of the Kerawalapitiya power Plant has been completed and it will be commissioned on March 25 this year with the opening of the plant by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The first phase of the project was also declared open by the President on December 8, 2008,

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