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The Final Pages of Jonathan Harker’s Diary ( Part 2)

This vessel will carry us across the North Sea, navigating directly up the River Thames to our final destination in London. A ...
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The Draugen Power-from-Shore Project – A Model for Sri Lanka’s Offshore Industry

Project demonstrates how an ageing offshore oil and gas platform can be modernised to reduce emissions while extending its ...
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Press Release from the German Dharmaduta Society

Press Release from the German Dharmaduta Society. The German Dharmaduta Society (GDS), founded in Sri Lanka by Asoka Weeraratna in 1952, is governed by a Board of Trustees and Boa ...
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Cricket is neither a Religion nor a Sport. It is a halfway house between the two for most cricket fans in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the rest of South Asia.

Interestingly, Senaka Weeraratna—the Sri Lankan lawyer who authored this famous quote—is also widely recognized in cricketing circles for his pivotal off-field contributions. In the early 1980s, long ...
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Jagannath Rath Jatra celebrated in western Myanmar

Guwahati: Annual Rath Jatra (the festival of chariots) kicked off in western Myanmarese city of Maungdaw on 16 July 2026 with great fanfare and enthusiasm. Tens of thousands of Hindu families from ...
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England’s Capital Metals PLC & the Corporate Thieving of Mineral Sands off East Coast Beaches in Sri Lanka

The multibillion-dollar 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)’s World Cup finals have been staged between an imperialist state (Spain) & a quasi-settler-colonial state ...
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Re – visiting St. Paul’s Church built in the immediate square of Sri Dalada Maligawa and flagrant violation of Article 5 of the Kandyan Convention (1815)

St. Paul’s Church was built in 1846 in contempt of the sanctity of Sri Dalada Maligava, in flagrant violation of Article 5 of the Kandyan Convention 1815, and betrayal of the trust of the Buddhists ...
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Another project on Qatar where ex CPC Sri Lankan professionals are working

Saipem has substantial fabrication capacity at its Karimun yard in Indonesia, while McDermott uses its Batam and Qatar fabrication facilities and subcontracts selected structures to Chinese yards.
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The Buddhist Resistance to entry of Christian Missionaries to the Kandy heartland in violation of the Ingrisi – Sinhala Givisuma ( Kandyan Convention ) of 1815

The Buddhist Sinhala resistance in Kandy against Christian missionaries stemmed directly from the British violation of the ...
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Qatar’s Energy Hub – A Model Sri Lanka Can Learn From

Rather than promoting only luxury apartments, schools, hospitals, and commercial buildings in Port City, Sri Lanka should position Colombo as a regional Centre of Excellence for: ...
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The Final Pages of Jonathan Harker’s Diary

Following the dramatic conclusion of Bram Stoker’s iconic horror classic, the story unfolds with Jonathan Harker and his wife ...
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Philosophical foundation of modern video review—the “player-referral” mechanism – was originally devised by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna.

Most soccer fans are unaware that the philosophical foundation of modern video review—the “player-referral” mechanism that allows players to challenge on-field decisions—was originally devised by Sri ...