APRC - Why ‘Unitary’ should be OK
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa has been the honoured
recipient of an Open letter from a number of (mostly expatriate)
intellectuals belonging to minority nationalities and national
minorities, on the subject of the APRC and impending reforms. They
urge that he eschew divisive labels, namely unitary and federal, and
that he base himself on the large number of Sinhalese who supported
such a high degree of autonomy in 1994.
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Text messages: a helping hand in emergencies
MANY people learned of the tsunami alert through
TV and radio networks which cut into their regular broadcasts to air
warnings. In remote locations in the North and East, the Armed
Services sent personnel onto the streets to convey the warning.
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Rainwater harvesting - an answer to future challenges
‘Let not a drop of water that falls from the sky
flow into the sea.’ These were the words of Parakramabahu, a 13th
century Sri Lankan monarch, who constructed Parakrama Samudra or the
Sea of Parakrama, a massive rainwater harvesting reservoir which to
this day irrigates vast stretches of paddy fields in the Gal Oya
district of Sri Lanka.
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Forces foil Tiger designs on Jaffna, misinformation campaign
Civilians fleeing Wanni unable to bear LTTE
harassment:
WITH the loss many of their territories to the
Security Forces in the wake of humanitarian operations conducted by
the Security Forces, the LTTE is once again making attempts to raise
their ugly head in Jaffna peninsula.
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