Forging a Lankan identity towards national unity
At a recent ceremony where 2000 housing deeds
were distributed to those who had paid up their NHDA loans,
President Mahinda Rajapaksa requested all Sri Lankans, whether they
are from South, North, East or West to rise against the situation
that has arisen in Geneva. He added, "It is the paramount duty of
Opposition political parties to rise with the people to protect the
country putting aside religious, ethnic and political differences".
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Trail-blazer in development thinking
This week’s Reminiscences features Godfrey
Gunatilleke, a distinguished former civil servant and the founder of
the country’s oldest independent think-tank, the MARGA Institute. In
our interview he wished to talk little about himself but more about
the times he lived through.
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Tuberculosis detection, treatment and control:
TB toll: two million lives annually
Tuberculosis is probably the most ancient and
vicious foe the world has ever had the misfortune to encounter. The
disease has afflicted mankind from the time man first evolved from
the simian species (i.e; the ape), proven by evidence of the disease
in mummified remains of Neanderthal man and Egyptian mummies. The
disease has killed more people than all the world wars combined, and
depressingly, more people die of the disease in the 21st century,
despite astronomical advances in medicare and therapeutics, than
during any of the preceding millenia, when no treatment at all was
available.
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Police Day and Malays’ contribution
The Police Commemoration Day fell on March 21,
2012. Every year PC Sahaban's name, appears in the print media on
Police Commemoration Day as the first policeman who was killed by,
the Lieutenant of Sardiel, on March 21, 1884 at Mawanella.
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