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With cash gifting reaching a peak at the ‘Avurudu’ season, the Commercial Bank of Ceylon has launched a promotion to encourage children to save the cash they receive in the Bank’s popular savings schemes for minors. The Bank has announced that all customers who open new ‘Arunalu’ Children’s Savings Accounts or ‘Isuru’ Minors’ Savings Plans […]

In what is seen as strong Buddha link between India and Mongolia, four Holy Kapilvastu relics of Lord Buddha reached Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar on Monday for an 11-day exposition. The relics are being kept at the famous Gandan Monastery where they were taken from with much fanfare. The Buddha relics also known as the ‘Kapilvastu Relics’ since they are from a site in Bihar first discovered in 1898 which is believed to be the ancient city of Kapilvastu. Kapilavastu was the childhood home of...

In a move of cultural diplomacy with Mongolia, India is sending a delegation of 25 headed by law minister Kiren Rijiju, with sacred Buddhist relics. The delegation will head to China’s neighbouring country on June 12 ahead of Mongolia’s Buddha Purnima on June 14.   The delegation will be in Mongolia on a 11-day exposition, and the four relics will be displayed at the Batsagaan