British planters, labor contractors, missionaries and successive Lankan governments kept the plantation workers uneducated for the sake of having a...
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Read moreLeading a six-member group of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called the ‘Colombo Powers’ Sirimavo Bandaranaike attempted to bridge the yawning...
Read moreChina had sent “volunteers” to fight US troops in Korea in 1950
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Read moreCairo, October 4 (Reuters) - Egypt on Saturday put on show dozens of coffins belonging to priests and clerks from...
Read moreIn contrast to the present era marked by the existence of independent Muslim parties, the earlier era was marked by...
Read moreFor a century, the East India Company (EIC) conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. In an article...
Read moreSeptember 16 (SkyNews) - The foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have signed historic diplomatic normalisation...
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