Vatican meet highlights President’s support for religious
equality
To the impartial observer, President Mahinda
Rajapaksa’s audience with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican is first
and foremost profoundly symbolic of the Lankan Head-of-State and
Government’s commitment to upholding religious freedom and equality
in his country.
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SAARC shifts to a higher gear - Terrorism firmly on centre-stage
THE 14th SAARC summit in New Delhi will be
hailed as a landmark for a variety of reasons. For the first time in
its 22-year history, it witnessed an expansion by formally inducting
Afghanistan as its 8th member. Five other countries, China, Japan,
South Korea, the US and the EU attended the summit as observers.
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The impact of Mahinda Chintana on Sri Lanka’s second
international airport
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa has inscribed in
Mahinda Chintana that he would formulate a national economic policy
integrating the positive aspects of free market economy with
domestic aspirations in order to ensure a modern and balanced
approach where domestic enterprises can be supported while
encouraging foreign investments.
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Buddhism and Science - a response
Astrophysicists explain that the creation of the
universe is a widely accepted phenomenon, popularly known as the
‘Big Bang’. According to the ‘Big Bang’ theory, the whole universe
was initially one big mass and a mighty secondary separation
resulted in the formation of galaxies.
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