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Sri Lankan Muslims condemn attacks on Buddhists

Sri Lanka?s minority Muslims condemned attacks on minority Buddhists in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh and demanded that authorities there punish those responsible. NM Ameen, president of Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, an umbrella organization of over 100 Muslim civil society groups, said Wednesday that any ethnic incident against minorities in Bangladesh or any other South Asian country ?is surely to reflect in our country Sri Lanka He said his group handed over a letter to Bangladesh?s top dip

03 Oct, 2012

Lanka to continue to train its military personnel in India

Notwithstanding stiff opposition from political parties in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka on Wednesday asserted that it was “very firm” on continuing the training programme of its defence personnel in India and ruled out sending them to countries like China. Sri Lanka’s powerful Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa, also the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said his country looks at India in a “much bigger way” than China. During an interaction with visiting Indian journalists, Rajapaks

03 Oct, 2012

Divineguma bill passed in the South and Sabaragamuwa

The Divineguma Bill introduced by the Government was passed in the Southern and Sabaragamuwa provinces today. In the Southern province the bill was passed with 36 votes for and 15 against it while in the Sabaragamuwa province the bill obtained 27 votes in favor and 12 against it. The bill has already been passed in the Eastern, Western, North Central ?and Wayamba provinces. The Government has decided to establish the Divineguma Development Department by combining five institutions including t

03 Oct, 2012