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A 56-year-old German worker was allegedly caught on camera poisoning a colleague’s lunch, prompting authorities to investigate the deaths of 21 other employees at ARI Armaturen, which makes industrial components. 21 employees have died before retirement

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ධනාත්මකව සිතන රියදුරු මහත්තයෙක්. මේකෙන් ජොබ් එකට ගෞරවයක් එනවා #Respect

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මාසයක් පුරා වැඩ නොකළ තම සියලු සේවක සේවිකාවන්ට කප්පාදු නොකර පඩය ලබාදුන් ශ්‍රිි ලංකාවේ‍ NoLimit නානාට, අපේ ගෞරවය #lka

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The strongest fighter in the world is a determined mother

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Perera & Sons (P&S) was started with Rs.2,000 by Charles Perera in 1902. It acquired the 1st electric bread oven, started night-shifts & used tricycles for home delivery. Did you know ? All P&S children have had to tolerate nicknames පාන් Perera or පුස් පාන් Perera in school

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Sri Lanka's Fast & Furious 4 of the 1990s

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තමන්ගේ ලේ ගෑවිච්ච පුලුන් කෑල්ල ඩස්බින් එකට දාන්න බැරි මිනිස්සු එක්ක සිස්ටම් චේන්ජ් කරන්න පුළුවන් ද ?

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French Corner established in Dehiwala in 1992 with 5 staff members by N. L. M Mubarak was rebranded in 2005 as NOLIMIT. They have provided 80% of the jobs out of 1,800 to non-Muslims because they are the secret behind the success of the business

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A picture is worth a thousand words

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සල්ලිවලින් මනින්න බැරි උගත්කම

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The LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham described @RW_UNP as a dangerous fox because of the international pressure on the LTTE to accept peace talks with the policy of a united Sri Lanka. This was initiated by @RW_UNP & he trapped them into such a net ~ Sunday Times 4th Dec 2005

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Looking at old Wellawatte in Colombo, Sri Lanka can bring back a host of memories & a smile on your face

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ආච්චිගේ ආදරය

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What did you notice ?

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ඇය මවකි. ගෝල්ෆේස් එකේ වීරවරියකි #GotaGoHome

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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother

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ඹබ කරන සේවය සහ කැපකිරීම් අති විශිෂ්ටයි

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Suraj Randiv with 43 Test, 36 ODI & 7 T20 wickets is lucky enough to have a respectable job in Australia as a bus driver. There is no need to be ashamed to be a bus driver in a highly developed country where labour is respected

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In 1979, a mother and her daughter going to Pettah in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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The man is Umar Lebbai Panicker, Sri Lankan from Eravur, Batticaloa & the tusker in the note was caught in 1925 & reared by him. He presented this tusker to Dalada Maligawa & within a short period it escaped & went in search of him. He brought it back to the Dalada Maligawa #lka

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අරගලයට ජයවේවා. අරගලයේ ඉන්න කිසිම කෙනෙක්ට කිසිදු කරදරයක් නොවේවා

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Sri Lanka's IT sector brings about U$ 5 billion into the country. The IT professionals are also preparing to migrate says Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL). The economic crisis was man made. I do not want my earning to be taxed heavily & used for loss making state institutions

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Who will monitor this open discrimination in Sri Lanka ?

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In Sri Lanka, there are 1.45 million public servants. In 2023 Budget salaries & wages account for Rs.1 trillion plus Rs 375 billion for pensions. Just look at them ගෙදර යන්න බලාගෙන ඉන්නවා It has become a challenge to allocate funds for other public purposes because of this sector

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What did you notice ?

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Did you know ? It was Mr. A.Sinnalebbe, a Muslim MP from Batticaloa tabled a motion in the State Council on 16th January 1948 suggesting that the Lion Flag of King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe which was taken to Britain in 1815 should be made the National Flag #lka

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රුපියලක් හම්බ කරන්න උදව් කරන්නේ රුපියලෙ වටිනාකම දන්න මිනිහෙක් විතරයි

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She's Udara Sankalpani, born in Devalegama in Kegalle, Sri Lanka is cultivating vegetable on a 10-acre plot almost single-handedly after studying agriculture in Japan, a field she ventured into reluctantly on the consistent persuasion of Akio Kametani, her Japanese husband #lka

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Sonali Deraniyagala born in Sri Lanka has a doctorate from the University of Oxford. She is a research scholar at Columbia University lost her 2 sons, her husband & her parents while on vacation in Sri Lanka in Dec 2004. Only Sonali survived to tell their tale

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Who remembers this hoarding in Bambalapitiya, Colombo ? Elasto Group created branding history in Sri Lanka by being the 1st in the field with it's own inventions of vibrating, luminous Bambalapitiya Elasto landmark hoarding

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Friendship Beyond Borders

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බුද්ධිමත්කම ඇඳුමෙන්, රස්සාවෙන්, විභාග සහතිකවලින් මනින්න බැරි දෙයක් #මිටරෙන්ජිවිතේ

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අතිතය දිහා ටිකක් හැරි බැලුවා

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In Sri Lanka, women eat 3 spoons of Rice to check whether salt is enough or not

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Rohitha Abeygunawardhana රත්තරං who came to meet Dep Minister Ediriweera Premarathna in a bicycle was recruited as Driver. The then President Chandrika Bandaranaike refused to nominate him because Ediriweera didn’t see what she saw at that moment ~ Colombo Telegraph 24th May 2016

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ඹහු අද මෙහෙම රෝද පුටුවෙන් මංගල ගමන යන්නේ අපි වෙනුවෙන් කරපු කැපකිරිම නිසයි #lka

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There were rumours in the mid 1990s that Sanath Jayasuriya has spring in his bat. A popular rumour was he had steel in his bat & his bat was going to be tested

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තාත්තා

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It is often said that Lee Kuan Yew once considered Sri Lanka as a development model. It will be interesting to see what he has said about Sri Lanka in his book titled South Asia’s Legends & Leaders. Did you know ? 7 out of 22 pages are devoted to Sri Lanka

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A crowded street scene in Colombo in 1976

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ජීවිතේ ගැටගහගන්න හදන මිනිස්සු

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The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) owes over Rs. 60 billion to CPC. The CEB that can be run with less than 15,000 employees is loaded with 26,000 employees. It has become a dumping yard for politicians to recruit deal makers, supporters & henchmen

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සමහර මිනිස්සු පොරොන්දු රකිනවා සංසාරේ පුරාවටම

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පොලීසියේ මනුෂ්‍යත්වය

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A mother is always a mother

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This picture will not go viral because she's not a celebrity

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In June 2011 Jackson Anthony said that the Rajapaksas from Giruva Pattuwa in Hambantota are descendents of the King Suddhodana & is a blood relation of the Lord Buddha. Therefore, Mahinda Rajapaksa is a great, great grand son of King Dutugemunu who is also related to Lord Buddha

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මෙන්න මේ‍ මගුල අල්ලලා හොයා ගත්තු එක ලෙඩෙක් ඉන්නවද ? මං නෙමෙයි අම්මා අහනවා

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කීර්තිමත් ක්‍රීඩකයකු ලෙසත්, නිහතමානී පුද්ගලයකු ලෙසත් රොෂාන් මහනාම ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රීඩාලෝලීන් අතර කිසිදිනෙක මැකී නොයන චරිතයක්

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On 1st Nov 2018, Prof. Maithree Wickramasinghe intervened to cancel a dinner organized for the UNP MPs by insisting that all MPs eat the same බත් පැකට්‍ given to 5,000 supporters gathered at the Temple Trees stating no MPs should get better meals than the supporters of @RW_UNP

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අම්මලා දුක් ගන්නේ පුතුන් හදලා පුතුන් රජුන් කරන්නට

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Salman Khan walking into the jail after being convicted. The 1998 #BlackBuckPoachingCase case may jeopardize Bollywood films worth US$ 90 million

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The film Machan මචං released in 2008 was inspired by real-life events of the 2004 incident, where a fake Handball team from Sri Lanka tricked it's way into a German tournament, lost all the matches & subsequently 23 strong team vanished by leaving a hand written note in a room

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It's so nice to see them back on the streets again. I'm sure the numbers will grow with present gas prices

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Only 4 out of 400 Sri Lanka's trained nurses have passed the English proficiency test conducted by the USA for nursing jobs. Sri Lanka's financial & educational systems are bankrupt. Those failed nurses educated in Sri Lanka cannot compete in an international arena

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Just because you fit in doesn't mean you belong there

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With vegetable prices soaring, a woman is seen walking away from a market in Colombo with a single carrot while checking whether she has enough money to buy something else. Pic by Indika Handuwala

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#Discipline starts at home

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It is useful to remember that portrait of Queen Elizabeth II appeared in Ceylon currency notes dated 3rd June 1952 even before Great Britain began using her picture on their currency notes in 1960. It was also the world’s 1st dated currency with the Queen’s portrait on it

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Chaminda Vaas never played like a typical tail ender. He played like a proper batsmen with an average of 24.32 in Test. On 26th June 2007 he made his maiden Test century against Bangladesh at Colombo. He's definitely an unsung hero of Sri Lanka cricket

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සර්, ඹබතුමාගෙ සපත්තුවට හැමදාම පෑගුනේ පොඩි මිනිස්සුන්ගේ රබර් සෙරෙප්පු විතරයි

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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga @CBKSriLanka ex-President of Sri Lanka in London. Whatever said & done, she can walk anywhere gracefully without a bodyguard #Respect

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Shah Rukh Khan & Shahid Kapoor forcing Ranveer Singh to request #Padmavati to return US$ 2 million she had taken for her role. She's the first actress in Indian cinema to have been paid more than the male actors in a film

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ක්‍රිස් පාලිත ගේල්

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The biggest blunder of the nationalisation drive of Sirimavo Bandaranaike was giving the marching order to #Shell and #Caltex & the establishment of the CPC @Kanchana_Wij In fact, before it was chased out, Shell wanted to begin one of Asia’s biggest oil refineries in Sri Lanka

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#ThinkBIGSundayWithMarsha There are no words to explain a mother's sacrifices from day one

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Sanath Jayasuriya once a nightmare for bowlers is now getting ready to set the restaurant on fire

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Tharjini Sivalingam grew up in warzone is former skipper of the Sri Lankan national Netball team. In the 2019 Netball World Cup she was the top-scorer with 348 goals in 375 attempts. She was also the oldest player to play in the history of the Netball World Cup at the age of 40

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බෞද්ධ බිතු සිතුවම් අඳින, කැටයම් කපන වරකපොල, අල්ගම ප්‍රදේශයේ මුස්ලිම් යුවතිය ෆාතිමා නුස්රා. බෙල්ලන්විල විහාරයේ, ගෝතමී විහාරයේ ජෝර්ජ් කීට් මහත්තයාගේ චිත්‍ර, කැලණියේ විහාරයේ වගේ ගොඩක් බෞද්ධ විහාරවල චිත්‍රවල අනුරූප ඇය ඇඳල තියෙනවා. බෞද්ධ කලාවන් ගැන ඉගෙන ගන්නකොට කවුරුත් විරුද්ධ වුණේ නෑ

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What did you notice ?

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Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s son had travelled to the US from Sri Lanka on several occasions between 2012 & 2014 & brought with him U$ 120,000 in cash over 6 trips out of Sri Lanka into the US. He had declared it in the FinCEN Form 105 in California ~ Colombo Telegraph 11th Sept 2019

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It all begins with a simple thought of caring

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රටේ සංස්කෘතිය සහ ආගම පටලවානොගත් මුස්ලිම් මවක්. I"m proud of you

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Brandix Lanka Ltd was started in 1969 as Firoze Limited by Mohammed Haji Omar with the assistance of Martin Trust, who is regarded as the father of the modern apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Brandix was declared Exporter of the Year at the 23rd Presidential Export Awards 2018/19

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The history of Ceylon Transport Board (CTB) goes back to 1st Jan 1958. In 1957 CTB purchased 165 buses from Germany for Rs. 3 million. They were the top of the range at that time. The front passenger side door was air operated by the driver

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එකම පන්තියේ පන්ති තුනක්

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අදට වැඩිය හෙට හොඳයි හාමුදුරුවනේ

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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga thought Lakshman Kadirgamar would be an ideal to be the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka but she could not do it because of cheap politics played by a senior politician. Those who criticized her should do a comparative study before they condemn her

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The fastest woman in South Asia in 1991 Sri Lanka's Damayanthi Darsha with Australia's fearsome fast bowler Brett Lee

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1996 වසරේ වර්ල්ඩ් කප් ෆයිනල් එකේ තීරණාත්මක ඉනිම ක්‍රීඩා කරන අරවින්දගේ මුහූණේ බය කියනදේ ගෑවිලාවත් නෑ

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She's Lakshi Sachintha, Sri Lanka’s 1st female Bus Driver who purchased a bus from a leasing company. She had earlier driven a bus belonging to her brother on the Expressway on a temporary route permit. අක්කා පරෙස්සමින් රේස් යන්න

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Ramiz Alim was the 1st Azan Broadcaster through Radio Ceylon, now SLBC in 1948 & Muslim community has been thankful to the SLBC for broadcasting his Azan every year. He had also conducted prayers for the inmates of the Welikade Prison in Colombo during the month of Ramazan #lka

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In Sri Lanka, cooking oil is sold to roadside eateries after being used at big hotels. It is added to Kottu Roti. This racket has gone uninvestigated. A few years ago, it was revealed that textile dyes were substituted for food colouring in some food outlets in the city

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මේ බඩදරු අම්මා දැන් අවුරුදු 2ක් තිස්සේ උදේට ඔරුගොඩවත්ත සිග්නල් එකේ ඉන්නවා. මේ අම්මාගෙ බඩ මීට වඩා ලොකු වෙන්නෙත් නෑ බබා හම්බෙන්නෙත් නෑනේ

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රත්තරං බඩුවක් උකස් තියලා හරි ඉස්සෝ ග්‍රෑම් 500ක් ගමු

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The 1st vehicle assembled in Sri Lanka was in early 1970s by Upali Motor Co Ltd in Homagama. The 1st car of the factory 5 ශ්‍රී 7512 as customary was donated to the කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරය. The 1st sale was to the late Lawrence Tudawe of Tudawe Brothers

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A picture is worth a thousand words

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Ranidu Lankage, a graduate in Economics from Yale is the 1st Sinhalese artiste to be played on the BBC Radio1 & the creator of the 1st Sinhalese single to be played on MTV. His song කෙල්ලේ was featured on the BBC Asian Chart. He was signed by Sony Music India with Ashanti

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1980 දශකයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ‍ මුද්‍ණය කල කැලැන්ඩර්ස්

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The name Chilaw derives from its Tamil name Cilapam, meaning pearl fishery. Mahathma Gandhi visited Chilaw in 1927. There is a saying in Sri Lanka that Chilaw is known for the 3Cs namely Crabs, Coconuts & Coreas. In 1958, Puttalam district was merged with Chilaw district #lka

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2 years

විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය විමල් විරවංශ

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Alerics De Silva Wimalarathne who studied in Australia ventured into ice cream business & launched Alerics from Wellawatte in 1949. The 1st commercial ice cream manufacturing company in Sri Lanka has been spreading #Happiness since 1949

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වැල්ලවත්තේ ෆර්සාන් අයියා සුපිරි ෆිට් පොරක්

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The price of Keeri Samba packed in May 2021 had increased drastically to Rs.1,000 from Rs.675. Will Dr. Bandula Gunawardena take stern action against businessmen who sell rice in excess of the maximum retail price imposed by gazette effective from 4th Nov 2020 ?

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Please do not bargain with street vendors like this because they do business to live & eat

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Pachcha Marikkar & his forces known as Marikkars arrived from #Kerala in India to fight against the #Portuguese with King Rajasinghe II of Seethawaka. He was based in #Malwana & one of the #Muslims who sacrificed his life in Ceylon now Sri Lanka

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Aishwarya Rai enjoying a meal with her mother. The mother-daughter duo are seen humbly sitting on the floor as they enjoy their food together in each other's company in 1994. She worked hard to get the title & later translated her success into brand endorsements & movies

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The Hebtulabhoy family in Sri Lanka goes back to 1864 when Sheikh Hebtulabhoy, a Bohra started a business in the Pettah. A few years later, his 2 vessels traded in India & the Maldives. 1907, M.S Hebtulabhoy became the 1st Ceylonese to export Tea out of the British monopoly

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It was revealed in Feb 2020 that the previous Govt in Sri Lanka had splashed Rs.2.8 billion on luxury vehicles for Ministers, State Ministers, Deputy Ministers & Ministries. Did you know ? In Britain, only the PM & the Leader of the Opposition are entitled to an official vehicle

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2 years

මගේ අම්මා නොවුනට වෙන කාගේ හරි අම්මා කෙනෙක්

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