Do not let ethnic issue hinder development- Minister Nanayakkara

When official languages appear on a name board, official document, form, public announcement etc the people will overcome their difficulties of not being able to read and understand. They will be able to build good relations with other communities and the state. Both have been distanced from them in the past. We will remedy this situation. Then the Tamil speaking people will accept the goodwill of the state and the Sinhalese community,

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Palestinians seek independent state in the UN on Facebook

Hanin Abu Baker, the 21-year-old girl from the West Bank city of Ramallah, spends more hours than before in front of her computer surfing the social website of Facebook on the internet to back the Palestinian bid to the United Nations to request a recognition of a state.

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Our hero, Anagarika Dharmapala

Working with Buddhists of China, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Chittagong, India, Nepal, Tibet and Arakan Anagarika Dharmapala founded Buddha Gaya Maha Bodhi Society in May, 1891 with the Most Ven. Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Maha Nayake Thera as its first President. The noble objective was to draw attention the Buddhist world to the state of affairs at Buddha Gaya temple. The Maha Bodhi journal was established in 1892 to publish Buddhist Literature in English and Indian languages,

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