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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People
                           -  Benjamin Disraeli


 

Sri Lanka is still under threat - warns Defence Secretary

LTTE rump groups and pro-LTTE organizations are trying hard to achieve their separatist ideology in the country :

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that there is a possibility of the re-emergence of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, as LTTE sympathizers abroad are still struggling to achieve the LTTE’s separatist ideology in the country. He made this observation speaking at a public lecture on ‘Future Challenges to National Security in Sri Lanka’ organized by the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute and the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, at the auditorium of the Institute, Tuesday.

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Socio - economic scene - Sher Azad

Dogs, rabies and us

If nothing else, the recent controversy surrounding the stray dog problem has led to a public airing of the facts and statistics concerning the stray dog population of Sri Lanka and the incidence of rabies. This is to be welcomed, as the education of the community is an essential part of fighting disease – apart from the desirability, in a democracy, of keeping the public informed, in general.

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Al-Haj Dr T B Jayah and national unity

I am extremely privileged to deliver this Oration on the 122nd birth anniversary of Alhaj Dr T B Jayah on the invitation of the Conference of Sri Lankan Malays, whose President Alhaj T K Azoor has devoted much of his energy and time in fostering the concept of Bersatu (unity) Keikhalasan (sincerity) and Pengorbanan (sacrifice) and also in perpetuating the memory of that great National hero late Dr T B Jayah.

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‘Language policy - too important to be left to politicians’

I should begin by thanking Dr Ganesh Devy for giving us yet another fascinating and stimulating day. It was a wonderful experience to come today to the Adivasi Centre he has set up, and to participate in the exhibition of photographs of their ancestors that he has managed to bring together here, from archives of the colonial period in Cambridge and Leipzig. Those two names make clear the serious scholastic nature of the use made of those photographs, but it is more heartening to see the human reactions of people whose ties to their community are so important, when faced with these early records of their lifestyles.

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