World Conference on Youth from May 6 to 10:
Youth to the fore
Over 1,500 youth representatives from 196
countries :
The World Conference on Youth (WCY) will bring
together youth aged 18 to 29 from the world over who are passionate
about the development in their respective countries and for those
who want to make a lasting and meaningful change. The forum is going
to be on a discussion about the development beyond 2015.
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Operation Blue Star 1984:
Political intrigue, violence and ultimate disaster
The embers of that dark and grim episode have
again been reignited. It does seem to happen repeatedly when June
approaches. June 2014, for example marks the 30th year of that
bloody uprising by the Sikh separatists at the Golden Temple in
Amritsar. And the response of the Indian Army through what was
termed Operation Blue star to flush them out of the temple,
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St. Mary's College, Trincomalee - 150th
anniversary:
A great tradition of spiritual and educational values
The 150th jubilee celebrations of St. Mary's
College in Trincomalee fell on April 4. It was indeed a strange
coincidence for a school to be set up when such a proposal was,
perhaps, not even thought of at the time, let alone a dream. Strange
as it may, the then Bishop of Jaffna, Rt. Rev. Dr. Semaria, had a
vision or a dream of establishing a school in Trincomalee.
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