Rural people should be given the results of giant development works – President

Addressing the 64th Independence Day celebrations at Anuradhapura on Saturday President said that we would be able to utilize the giant development works built by us for national development only if we can bring up a citizen equipped with modern, scientific, technical and language skills and who could be on par with anybody else in the world.

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Deyata Kirula awakens Raja Rata

Marking the 64th anniversary of Independence:

The Deyata Kirula 2012 exhibition at Oyamaduwa, opened by the President on February 4, will continue till February 10. A special feature on this occasion is a special programme (parallel to the exhibition) on developing the infrastructure facilities in the Anuradhapura District at a cost of Rs. 21,742 million

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Dinosaur footprints discovered in Beijing

Paleontologists say several hundred fossilized footprints in a Beijing suburb are those of dinosaurs. The footprints, unearthed in a geological park in Yanqing county, are the first dinosaur traces the city has found, according to Zhang Jianping, researcher at the China University of Geosciences.

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