Water will not be privatised

Poor people should be provided water at low cost. The public should be made aware of the social responsibility to protect water, purified water is being used by some people to wash vehicles and clothes. Clean water is a must for good health, so it is our duty to use water sparingly and by thinking about the future. These are the extracts of an interview conducted with Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. He is the leader of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and the Chief Government Whip

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The Morning Inspection - Malinda

What kind of hero do you want to be?

There are two kinds of radicals in universities. Well, to be honest, I can’t speak for today’s undergraduates. Back then, in the eighties there were two kinds of radicals and I suspect these two categories exist today as well, wearing different clothes, speaking different languages, screaming different slogans etc., but beneath it all, the same two individuals I noticed when I was an undergraduate.

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A probe to heal the wounds of war

On My Watch - Lucien Rajakarunanayake

Known widely as the San Francisco Conference, at this meeting of nations held in September 1951, it is accepted that JR Jayewardene representing what was then Ceylon, played a major role in admitting Japan back into the world community, after the enmities of war.

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