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2009
The 26 Year War Comes To an End Security forces secure military victory It had been called Sri Lanka’s ‘unwinnable war.’ On the basis that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil…
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16 February
2004
Tsunami Heaps Trauma on Tragedy for Isle Boxing Day disaster hits Sri Lanka hardest When disaster strikes, trauma ensures. But perhaps the greater tragedy for Sri Lanka is that it…
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16 February
2000
Sri Lankan Sprinter Claims Olympic Medal Susanthika’s bronze becomes silver later To be best known by the epithet of ‘Asian Black Mare,’ one needs to have run very fast on…
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16 February
1999
Sri Lanka Champions Vesak as a UN Holiday Foreign Minister to the fore at 54th UNGA A wise observer of history and the penchant of our planet’s diverse peoples to…
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16 February
1998
LTTE Bombs One of Buddhism’s Sacred Places Tigers attack Temple of the Tooth at dawn They say that a cornered animal is the most dangerous game – to hunt or…
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15 February
1996
LTTE Launches Daylight Attack in Colombo Big lorry bomb rips through Central Bank Few terrorist attacks have had a more devastating impact on the island’s tourism industry than the bombing…
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15 February
1996
When the Mighty Sri Lankan Lions Roared A thrilling first ICC Cricket World Cup Few questions are as poignant to an American as ‘What were you doing when you heard…
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15 February
1994
First Local Company to Secure a Global IPO JKH is listed on the Luxembourg bourse There are those who would argue that the best measure of a nation’s worth is…
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15 February
1992/2018
Sri Lanka-born Author Gets Literary Nods Michael Ondaatje wins Booker twice over If there is one name in the pantheon of authors that’s more often associated than that of others,…
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14 February
1987
A Second Southern Insurrection Flares Up JVP rebels cause pandemonium islandwide The last thing a state whose military was confined to barracks by the occupation of its northern territories by…
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