Late Dr. A.C.S. Hameed entered Sri Lankan legislature in March 1960, Representing Harispattuwa constituency, in the Central Province. He had been in Parliament winning 8 elections for a continuous period of 39 years from 1960 to 1999. This was one of the longest unbroken Parliamentary records of a member of the U.N.P. He passed away on September 3, 1999 after …
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Today (16 September) is the 22nd death anniversary of Mohammad Hussein Muhammad Ashraff, the legendary leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC). He was the Cabinet Minister in charge of Shipping, Ports, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in the Government of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga at the time of his death. He, along with 14 others, was killed in an air …
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A statue of Mimar Sinan sits in front of the Selimiye Mosque in Turkey’s Edirne (Wikimedia) Responsible for designing some of Turkey’s most impressive structures, Sinan was the Ottoman Empire’s chief architect in the 16th century Modern cities are often recognised for their skyscrapers, such as Dubai’s Burj Khalifa or London’s Shard. But that is not the case in Istanbul, where the …
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සෑම අභිරහසක් පිටුපසම විද්යාවක් තිබෙනවා. නමුත් සමහර පුදුමසහගත දේවල් විද්යාවෙන් ඔබ්බට ගිය විට, හුදෙකලාවෙ වුවත් අපේ මොළය සෑම විටම ඒ පුදුමසහගත සංසිද්ධිය ගැන සිතමින් සිටිනවා. අපි දැන් බලන්න යන්නේ එවැනි සංසිද්ධියක් ගැන තමයි. හරියට කඃබා මස්ජිදයේ ඉඳලා අඩි හැට හයක් නැගෙනහිර දෙසට වන්නට ළිඳක් තියෙනවා. මේ එක් ළිඳ තමයි මේ දක්වා මුළු ලෝකයම ආපසු හැරී බලන්නට සලසල තියෙන්නේ. මේ ළිඳේ …
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Born : 980 Kharmaithen (near Bukhara), Central Asia (now Uzbekistan) Died : June 1037 Hamadan, Persia (now Iran) SummaryIbn Sina or Avicenna was the most influential of all Islamic philosopher-scientists. He wrote on medicine as well as geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music. Biography Ibn Sina is often known by his Latin name of Avicenna, although most references to him today have reverted to using the correct …
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By Syed Ali Mujtaba Islam came to Tamil Nadu in its earliest days when the Arabs became Muslims. The Keelakarai Jumma Masjid, built in the 7th century, with prominent Tamil architectural characteristics, is one of the oldest mosques in Tamil Nadu. So is the mosque near the Kottai (Fort) Railway station in Tiruchi which is dated 743 AD. The Arabic inscription …
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