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You can delegate authority, but not responsibility
- Stephen W. Comiskey

 

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:

While this problem seems to be mostly international, we must realise there is a possibility, though a remote one at this stage, that terrorists will reorganize within this country. As mentioned before, one of the stated objectives of the LTTE-linked groups abroad is to encourage and facilitate the resumption of an armed struggle in Sri Lanka. There is ample evidence that members of these groups, as well as LTTE cadres who managed to flee Sri Lanka during the Humanitarian Operation, are consistently trying to contact various people within this country and encourage them to regroup militarily. We must not forget that there are also LTTE cadres who escaped detection and detention during the Humanitarian Operation, and are still at large in our society.

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A.W. Dharmapala - pioneer broadcaster

A.W. Dharmapala, an engineer and a quiet unassuming gentleman with unimpeachable integrity, rendered service to Sri Lanka for 42 years (1922 - 1964). He was one of the pioneers of Ceylon radio broadcasting from its earliest experimental stages in 1923. He worked with E. Harper (Chief Engineer, Department of Posts and Telecommunications) and Shillitoe (assistant chief engineer) to construct a 0.5 kw radio transmitter using radio equipment from the captured World War I German submarine UB61. With this equipment, they made their first experimental broadcasts in 1923, broadcasting gramophone music from a small room in the Central Telegraph Department.

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Will the world come to an end on December 21, 2012?

At mid-night on December 31, 2011, the Gregorian calendar flipped from the year 2011 to 2012. The celebration most likely just involved tons of alcohol and fireworks and was the start of a New Year for our calendar. Nothing more! Nothing less!

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Is silence always golden?

Sex education is regarded as a formal instruction on topics linking human sexuality such as anatomy, reproduction, intercourse, abstinence, contraception and numerous human sexual behaviour enwrapping emotional relations and rights and responsibilities. Customary avenues for sex education are parents, school programmes and public health campaigns.

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