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No Peace in Sight in Human-vs-Elephant War

No Peace in Sight in Human-vs-Elephant War

Aug 04, 2010 - KONWEVA, Sri Lanka, Aug 4 (IPS) – Dusk creeps over Konweva like a black shroud slowly draping over ...


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Reporting pressure easing in the east

Reporting pressure easing in the east

Jul 05, 2010 - The reporting climate in the Eastern Province has markedly improved compared  to two years back. We have spent the ...


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Sunrise over Batti

Sunrise over Batti

Jun 28, 2010 - Batticaloa has long fascinated many. It is here that the biggest internal rebellion within the LTTE began. It ...


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විසිතුරු බව රැදි හික්කඩුවේ කොරල්පර

විසිතුරු බව රැදි හික්කඩුවේ කොරල්පර

Jun 11, 2010 - දක්ෂිණ ලංකා වෙරළ තීරය වඩාත් සුන්දර කිරීමට සමත්ව ඇත්තේ හික්කඩුව ගල් මල් තීරය බව නොරහසකි. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ඇදී එන බොහොමයක් ...


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Everyone in Kilinochchi has a story

Everyone in Kilinochchi has a story

May 24, 2010 - Every house in Kilinochchi has a story to tell. Everyone has seen something so out of this world in the ...


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Entrepreneurship at the Heart of Economic Revival

Entrepreneurship at the Heart of Economic Revival

May 03, 2010 - In the past six months Sri Lanka went through the ritual of elections. As usual our politicians have outperformed each ...


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Blomendhal’s evil smog

Apr 26, 2010 - It is an evil mist that rises over Blomendhal. Every morning it hangs low, moving slowly over the small man ...


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North-East — Back To Business

North-East — Back To Business

Apr 12, 2010 - The war ended almost a year back. The north bore the brunt of the carnage. Now it is ...


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Lifeline daily radio show #89 (10 June 2009)

Vavuniya IDP resettlement in two stages
Revision classes help 550 IDP students prepare for Advance Level examinations
Student groups to protect their environment in Vavuniya: Interview with the Zonal Education Director Ranjani Oswald

Vavuniya IDP resettlement in two stages
Vavuniya District Secretariat has sent a project report to the Ministry of Nation Building regarding the resettlement process [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 10 දා pm 4:44 ට
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Lifeline daily radio show #88 (09 June 2009)

1000 children estimated to be orphans
Second phase of resettlement takes place in Musali in Mannar
Family cooking in zone 1 and Kathirgamar village

1000 children estimated to be orphans
Speaking to Lifeline M. Sumanadasa the Secretary of Child Development and Women Empowerment stated: “Four storey building has been identified in Vavuniya to accommodate orphan children from [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 10 දා pm 4:41 ට
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Lifeline daily radio show #87 (08 June 2009)

Seeking Local Deminers for Mullaithivu
Providing shelter to IDPs in Vavuniya
Move from communal kitchens to individual family cooking
Dangers of not taking care of hygiene
Special ward for Vavuniya’s 3,000 pregnant mothers

Seeking Local Deminers for Mullaithivu
Speaking to Lifeline on demining in Mullaithivu and the need to recruit more staff, the Danish Deming Group Programme Manager, Steen [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 9 දා pm 3:37 ට
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Perambara takes on Dengue

Preambara took on the spreading Dengue menace in the island, in the form of a leaflet that was given out with the publication. The leaflet provides information on how to prevent mosquito breeding, and the most common symptoms of Dengue fever. The initial set of leaflets were distributed in the Matara Area, in the South, [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 9 දා am 11:26 ට
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පිල්ලෙයාන් ආණ්ඩුවට එක්වන ලකුණු

TMVP discusses joining SLFP
තමිල් මක්කල් වෙඩිතලෙයි පුලිගල් නොහොත් ටී.එම්.වී.පී. සාමාජිකයින් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය සමග එක්වීම පිළිබදව ඉදිරියේදී සාකච්ඡා පවත්වන්නේයැයි එම පක්ෂයේ ආරංචිමාර්ග පවසයි.
‘‘ටී.එම්.වී.පී. පක්ෂය ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය සමග එක්වනවාදැයි යන්න මෙතෙක් තීරණය කර නැහැ. නමුත් මේ පිළිබදව ඉදිරි දින කිහිපය තුළදී සාකච්ඡුාවක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතයි.’’ ටී.එම්.වී.පී. පක්ෂයේ අරංචිමාර්ග ජුනි 8 වැනිදා පැවසුවේය.

මේ පිළිබදව සාකච්ඡා [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 8 දා pm 4:00 ට
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තෙලිජ්ජවිල සර්ප වෙදකම

Snakeman of Matara
සර්පයින්ගේ ලෝකය බොහෝ බිහිසුණු එකක් ලෙස බොහෝ දෙනා දකින්න පුරුදු වී තිබේ. එහෙත් සෑම සර්පයකුම බිහිසුණු නැත. පිළිකුල් වන්නේද නැත. සර්පයින් සමහරක් විෂ උග‍්‍ර සතුන් බව සැබෑවකි. නමුත් අවබෝධයක් නොමැති කම නිසා බොහෝ දෙනෙක්  සියලුම සර්පයින් එක ලෙස දකින්නේයැයි දික්මාදුගොඩ විජයපාල පවසයි.
මාතර තෙලිජ්ජවිල සුප‍්‍රකට විෂ වෙද පරම්පරාව සර්පයින් පිළිබඳ සුභවාදී ආකල්පයකින් බලන්නට ජනතාවට [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 8 දා pm 2:21 ට
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போசாக்கின்மை காரணமாக கடும் அபாயங்களுக்கு உட்பட்ட சிறுவர்களுக்கு உடனடி சிகிச்சை- டாக்டர். வின்யா ஆரியரட்ன

யுத்ததினால் இதுவரை 300 க்கும் அதிகமான வன்னிச் சிறுவர்கள் பலியாகியுள்ளதுடன் 40 ஆயிரத்திற்கும் அதிகமான சிறுவர்கள் அபயகரமான பாதிப்புக்களை எதிர்நோக்கி வந்துந்துள்ளனர்.இந்த சிறுவர்களின் இழப்புக்கள் பற்றி இன்னமும் சரியான அல்லது உத்தியோகப+ர்வமான கணக்கெடுப்புக்கள் மேற்கொள்ளப்படவில்லை. காயங்களுக்குள்ளாகி அவயவங்களை இழந்த அப்பாவிச் சிறுவர்கள் சொல்லொணா துயரங்களை இன்று வரை தொடர்ந்தும் எதிர்நோக்கி வருகின்றனர். இவர்களில் பலர் பெற்றோர்களையும் சகோதர சகோதரிகளையும் உறவினர்களையும் குண்டுகளுக்குப் பலிகொடுத்து அனாதைகளாகி எப்படியோ [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 6 දා am 9:55 ට
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அபிவிருத்தி அடைந்த நாடுகளுடன் ஒப்பிடுகையில் எங்களுடைய நாடு மகப்பேற்று சுகாதார நலனில் முன்னணியில் நிற்கின்றது.

வருடாந்தம் உலகில் அபாயகரமான சிக்கல்கள் காரணமாக அரைவாசி மில்லியன் பெண்கள் தாய்மையின்போதும் பிள்ளைகளை ஈன்றெடுக்கும் தருவாயிலும் மரணிக்கின்றனர். இந்த மரணங்களில் 35 சதவீதமானவை தெற்காசியாவில் இடம்பெறுகின்றன. இது கவலையினம் மற்றது மனிதாபிமான அழிவு என வைத்திய நிபுணர்கள் தெரிவிக்கின்றனர். இவற்றையெல்லாம் வெகு இலகுவில் தடுத்துவிடலாம். அதற்கான தீர்வு என்ன? என்னசெய்யப் போகின்றோம்? ஏன் தெற்காசியாவில் இதனைத் தடுக்க முடியாது? இது தொடர்பாகஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சனத்தொகை நிதியம்( UNFPA) என்ன கூறுகின்றது என பார்ப்போம்.
மகப்பேற்று சுகாதாரம் தொடர்பாக [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 6 දා am 9:04 ට
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Lifeline daily radio show #84 (05 June 2009)

Demining in Mullaithivu ahead of resettlement
Healthcare for malnourished and anaemic children in Vavuniya camps
Temporary houses for Vavuniya IDPs
Interview with the Secretary of Child Development and Women Empowerment Ministry M.Sumanadasa: Vavuniya orphan children: “There are around 6,000 children in these camps and 600 to 700 are orphans we will get the exact number after our [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 5 දා pm 5:13 ට
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කඩා වැටුණ ආර්ථිකය ගොඩ ගන්න දැන් අමාරුයි

Economic revival vital
”යුද්ධය ඉවරයි කියලා අපේ කරදර අඩු වෙන්නේ නැහැ. තව ටික දවසකින් කියයි, ඒ වියදම් පියවන්න  ඕන නිසා බඩු මිල වැඩි කළා. බදු වැඩි කරන්න වෙනවා කියලා.” කුරුණෑගල පදිංචි  කුසුමා මල්ලිකා පවසයි.
යුද්ධය අවසන් වීම පිළිබදව සමස්ථ ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ගේ පැසසුමට ලක් වුවද අනාගතය දෙස සමහරකු බලන්නේ බියමුසු සිතුවිලි තුළිනි. එයට හේතුව ලෙස මල්ලිකා පවසන්නේ කිසිම [...]

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ලිව්වෙ 2009 අවුරුද්දෙ June 5 දා am 11:11 ට
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