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Waulpone: Vandals destroy rock caves by P. D. A. S. Gunasekera, Ratnapura Group Correspondent Waulpone, the 'legendary Rock Cave' with the unexpected archaeological
evidence of a civilisation, tens of thousand years old, running back to
the time of the "Balangoda Man" is again, in the grips of a new
menace, the illegal gemming activities.
Excavated Buddha images at Ruwanweli Maha Seya by Karel Roberts Rathnaweera Fifty-six Buddha images excavated in an area lying adjacent to both the
Ruwanmeli Maha Seya and the Basavakkulama tank in Anuradhapura will be
placed in the immediate outer precincts (maluwa) of the Maha Seya on June
1. Peace - urgent need of the hour - Sangaree President of TULF and former Parliamentarian V. Anandasangaree said
that he is not at all opposed to the Government talking peace only with
the LTTE and that what the country urgently needs today is PEACE. Solheim back again by S. Selvakumar Norwegian special envoy Erik Solheim will arrive tomorrow and his
mission is aimed at reaching a compromise between the government and the
LTTE on some thorny issues that have cropped up vis-…-vis the
recommencement of the peace talks, knowledgeable political sources said. Other Stories |
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