Amidst
protests by the LTTE and the TNA, the Indian government
has rejected the controversial Sampur area as the possible
site for the construction of a 500-MW coal-fired thermal
power project.
Minister and All-Party
Representatives Committee chairman Tissa Vitarana said
a document which took into consideration the views expressed
by experts’ panel members and APRC deliberations
in the past five months will be presented to the committee
in early January.
When Goolbai Gunasekara first told her mother, renowned educationist Clara Motwani that she was going to write about her life, Mrs. Motwani, she recalls, looked alarmed. “She knew my propensity for exaggeration,” Goolbai laughs, “and she warned me about three things.”
A little girl, aged 2, has a 'hole in the heart' and needs surgery. Donations are requested from the public by parents who cannot afford the cost of a life-saving operation.
Last evening’s picture
of President Mahinda Rajapaksa discussing
the current situation in the country with
security forces chiefs and Defence Ministry
officials at an emergency meeting convened
in the aftermath of the Godagama bus blast.
Pic by Sudath Silva
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When Goolbai Gunasekara first told her mother, renowned educationist Clara Motwani that she was going to write about her life, Mrs. Motwani, she recalls, looked alarmed. “She knew my propensity for exaggeration,” Goolbai laughs, “and she warned me about three things.”
A little girl, aged 2, has a 'hole in the heart' and needs surgery. Donations are requested from the public by parents who cannot afford the cost of a life-saving operation.
While a new, Muslim member of Congress sparked a controversy for taking his oath of office with a Quran instead of a Bible on Thursday, another new member who is Buddhist was sworn in with no book at all.
