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COLOMBO (News 1st): The Sunday Times reported that there is a growing concern about continued arrivals in Sri Lanka from Pandemic-stricken India, particularly of workers availing themselves of 14-day “quarantine packages” sold by some travel agents.
According to the report since Indians have been barred from directly entering a number of countries from India, many have opted to quarantine in a separate country before travelling to their final destination.
Thereby certain Sri Lankan travel agencies had published advertisements promoting Sri Lanka as a country where Indians can undergo quarantine.
The Sunday Times reported that the travel bubble concept for Indian tourist visiting Sri Lanka was misused by 2 leading travel agencies and other small scale travel agencies quickly followed suit in promoting Sri Lanka as a country for quarantine.
Posted on April 29th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
SWRD Bandaranaike was
assassinated in 1959. This was followed by two attempts to remove his successor,
Sirimavo. First, the failed coup of 1962
and second, the JVP insurgency of 1971. The 1971
rebellion was the first armed uprising against the state.
Mano
Ratwatte, son of Mackie Ratwatte, Private Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo,
recalls that in January 1966, at a political rally the Air Force guard had threatened to open fire
on Prime Minister Sirimavo and Dr. Baduiddin Mohammed.
The 1971 JVP
insurgency has been described as a romantic, innocent revolution, an unplanned
spontaneous attack. It was nothing of the sort. It was pre-planned and well
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