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Yasoja Gunasekera: Lankan Ambassador in Canberra

Item in the DAILY ISLAND, 26 April 2025 … with highlights imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi Yasoja Gunasekera assuming duties last Tuesday High Commissioner-designate of Sri Lanka to Canberra, Australia, Yasoja Gunasekera, assumed duties last Tuesday (22). Addressing the staff … Continue reading

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Huge Casualties in the Ukraine-Russia War

Observer from A Black Sea Port …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi ONE:  “God is with us” …. watch the new Russian Army recruitment video. The clip promotes military service while focusing on religious diversity and national unity. … Continue reading

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Re-Visiting the Thuppahi Coverage of the April 2019 EASTER SUNDAY Attacks

SEE … https://thuppahis.com/2023/09/11/articles-on-the-easter-sunday-attacks-in-sri-lanka-2019-those-in-april-2019/ VARIED…. IMMEDIATE – APRIL 2019 Nirupama Subramaniam 2019 “Nirupama’s Incisive Appraisal identifies Islamic Jihadist Patterns in Easter Sunday Terror,” 22 April 2019, ….. https://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/nirupamas-incisive-appraisal-identifies-islamic-jihadist-patterns-in-palm-sunday-terror/

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Sri Lankan Migrants Abroad as Productive Oysters for the Island

Item circulated by Sunil Thenabadu, Keith Bennett and  one Dee de  Silva The Sri Lankan diaspora consists of approximately three million Sri Lankans living abroad, significantly contributing to their host countries and maintaining ties with Sri Lanka. Demographics and Distribution … Continue reading

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Rise Sir James Anderson & Captain Lancashire At Age of 43! Volaarey! Cantaarey!

Item in ESPNcricinfo, 12 December 2025 James Anderson will be taking on a new responsibility in his 44th year next summer, after being appointed as Lancashire’s full-time captain for their County Championship campaign. Anderson, 43, stepped in as an interim captain … Continue reading

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Sri Lanka in the World of BRICS as Latter Expands

Eddie Barwood This is an interesting report from a well known Russian media source reporting on the BRICS meetings there recently. Countries are summarised concisely in terms of their economies,  key importer and exporter countries, goods involved, and challenges. I … Continue reading

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Inspirations: A Female Rhodes Scholar in Engineering

Kate Rogers, in Dalhousie News  ….6 …in RHODES  CONNECT, https://www.dal.ca/news/2026/01/08/all-rhodes-lead-to-home-sierra-sparks.html Sierra Sparks was inspired by strong female role models from a young age. The first-year medical student from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, entered a field where women were few and stereotypes … Continue reading

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Elephant House breaches Australian Market … Icily

An Item in the  Financial Times 23 December 2025 …..Sent by Jayantha Somasundarum of Canberra … where the web deployed this  title: “Elephant House Ice Cream marks historic launch in Australia” Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (CCS), a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings … Continue reading

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The Royal-Thomian: A Message from Revd Marc Billimoria

A Message in Facebook from the Retd Warden, Fr. Marc Billimoria. early March 2026  It is one year this week since I was part of organizing this spectacular sporting event – the blue ribbon and quintessential Big Match, the Battle … Continue reading

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Chinese Fleet’s Impact on Sri Lanka in the Early 15th Century 

Charles Schokman’s Discovery of Amazing Facts conveyed in an Email entitled “A Bit of Ceylon History” Amazing how they sailed with 30,000 sailors on 35 massive ships In fact some ships were garden ships supplying food to the sailors! The … Continue reading

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