Month: February 2023
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Feb- 2023 -13 FebruaryUncategorized
1981
Jaffna Public Library Put to the Torch Arson fuels more acts of physical violence As Ray Bradbury’s apocalyptic Fahrenheit 451 (the reference is to the temperature at which paper catches fire) warned, cultures that burn…
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13 FebruaryUncategorized
1981
Sri Lanka Gains Test Status Courtesy ICC First Test encounter ends in England win Two cricketing encounters stand sentinel over the privilege of Sri Lanka’s Test status. The first of these in chronological order was…
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12 FebruaryUncategorized
1979
Sri Lanka’s First Television Transmission ITN pioneers colour TV – state takes over Although the television was invented in 1927 and TVs had been in popular use in developed countries for decades, it took Sri…
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12 FebruaryUncategorized
1977
Local Economy Opens out to Market Forces A premier’s policies end an epoch of rationing In terms of political developments, this was the year that set the stage for the introduction of a presidential system,…
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12 FebruaryUncategorized
1977
The Country’s First Executive President How ‘JR’ went from old hand to wily fox One person’s democrat is another’s dictator – this is perhaps best illustrated in the person and work of Sri Lanka’s first…
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12 FebruaryUncategorized
1976
Sri Lanka Hosts Fifth NAM Summit Meeting Steers Non-Aligned Movement on a new path In times of sorrow, there is often no greater joy than to look back at the halcyon days… when a country…
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12 FebruaryUncategorized
1975
Sri Lanka in UN General Assembly’s Chair Career diplomat shines in a stellar role There is a saying that suggests it’s not the years of life you’ve lived but the life in those years. If…
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11 FebruaryUncategorized
1974
Sri Lankan Heads Law Of Sea Conference Steers ships of state on consensual course In the first blush of its independence in 1948, Ceylon’s relationship with the UN was overshadowed by its simultaneous belonging to…
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11 FebruaryUncategorized
1973
A Country’s Entry into the World of Cars ‘Upali’ drives the nation’s petrolheads Petrolheads may claim that a country can’t consider itself developed or its people advanced until and unless it manufactures its own vehicles.…
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11 FebruaryUncategorized
1973
Sri Lanka’s First Five-Star Property Inter-Continental puts Colombo on the map Ceylon was once – and still is for sure – synonymous with tea. The eponymous isle has gone on to fame and fortune (and…
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