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25th anniversary on December 8:
A watershed year for SAARC
The South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) is 25 years old this year. December 8 marked the
25th anniversary of the signing of the SAARC Charter. A grouping of
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh and
Afghanistan, SAARC has firmly established itself as a leading
regional bloc. After all, SAARC represents more than one-fifth of
humanity.
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Vignettes
Humour as a form of entertainment
Humour or humor (in American English) is “the
tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and
provide amusement.” If you delve deeper, the term ‘ humour’ derives
from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that
the balance of fluids in the human body, known as ‘humours’, control
human health and emotion.
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Rubber cultivation :
Potential for further expansion
The history of a rubber tree, scientifically
known as Hevea brasiliensis, in Sri Lanka dates back to 1876 when it
was first planted in the Peradeniya and Henarathgoda Botanical
Gardens. Sir Henry Wickem, a British planter, who pioneered this
event, was knighted for the unique contribution to mankind.
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