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Did the National Blood Centre, the heart of the National Blood Transfusion Service in the country, use expired kits to get platelets from trusting donors? This is what President Mahinda Rajapaksa must order an absolutely independent and impartial committee or better-still a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and ascertain beyond the slightest doubt, to restore the public's faith not only in the National Blood Transfusion Service but also in the much-commended state health service.

Conjuring the extraordinary amid the mundane

While you and I are milling hopelessly around the bridal registry, you can be assured that Asitha Ameresekere is busy writing. When he first made a birthday gift of his story ‘Shame of the Pig’, many years ago, the acclaimed film-maker says he never intended his work to be read by a wider audience. Time, however, has ensured that not only will Asitha’s first book “Wedding Gifts and Other Presents” be

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