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eLanka Newsletter –23 May 2021 – 4th Edition – Sri Lankans In Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter “THE RAREST OF THE RARE” Winter is here and here is how the Sri Lankan Community is warming up after long months of enforced hibernation! NSW Community Engagement Update – 21 May 2021 Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo – One year and counting…. Taste of Sri Lankan food your mother cooked for you!- Dr Harold Gunatillake Intelligent Composable Businesses: How COVID-19 is reshaping businesses By Aditya Abeysinghe Cricket Australia – FIXTURE ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021-22 Season – Full men’s and women’s international schedule for 2021-22 season announced, featuring England, India, Afghanistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka Sri Lankan gets top healthcare post in Australia-New Zealand A No Holds Barred Read That is Thoughtful and Thought Provoking By Minali De Silva A No Holds Barred Read That is ...

May 23, 2021 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , , ,
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Sri Lanka must celebrate Republic Day, as India does- by Prof. Tissa Vitarana Source:Island May 22nd should be one of the most important days to be commemorated in the history of Sri Lanka. It is the day in 1972 on which we became a Republic, a completely independent sovereign nation. But why is it, that unlike India which has done so since 1951, we do not celebrate Republic Day? Like Sri Lanka, India also celebrates Independence Day, but on a separate day each year with equal pomp and splendour. After nearly 450 years of being a colony under the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the British, (roughly 150 years each), formal independence was received from the British in 1948. But this was only a sham, being Dominian Status within which we remained a semi-colony. The British monarch continued to be the head of state, the military power remained with the ...

May 21, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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Human – elephant conflict Source:Island Electric fencing, white elephant The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) revealed that although Rs. 490 million had been spent on building electric fences between 2019 and 2020, there had been no decrease in the incidents of the human-elephant conflict. The cost of constructing the electric fences in 2019 to prevent human-elephant conflict was Rs. 275,447,639 and the amount spent for this purpose in the year 2020 was Rs. 221,505,818. The total length of the electric fences was 4,756 km. ...

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