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One of the largest claymore mines weighing 30 kilograms was defused by the Special Task Force (STF) at the Murunkan camp on Thursday. According to the STF the mine was rare and could have caused a major damage including the blowing up of an armoured car causing extensive damage. The STF was forced to use a different method to defuse the mine due to the extensive quantity of explosives used. Here an STF bomb disposal expert is seen preparing to defuse the mine Pic by Priyantha Hewage
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 A few hundred metres ahead of Kilinochchi town, behind a cadjan thatched fence, lay a central kitchen, perhaps the largest in the Wanni.
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World focus on Wanni civilians
Political Column |
 Scenes never before played out in the more than two and a half decades of separatist war are being enacted in the Wanni, the theatre of bitter battles between the security forces and Tiger guerrillas. |
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| 60 dead in Pakistan hotel inferno |
 A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad today, killing at least 60 people in a brazen attack in the heart of the Pakistan capital. Police said 200 people were also wounded in the massive explosion, which ruptured a gas pipeline and triggered a huge blaze that engulfed the heavily-guarded site in flames. |
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| Groovy jazz |
 A line-up of jazz dances ranging between modern, contemporary and lyrical jazz dance genres will truly be an evening of dance worth noting down in your schedule. |
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| ‘Railway Stories’: for a novel journey in teledrama |
 In response to stories revolving around hackneyed family panoramas, television viewers would have a fine opportunity to experience a miniplay series with 'Dumriya Andaraya' (Railway Stories) based on a novel subject. |
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MEDI SCENE |
| Problematic Prostate |
 When they are young, they cannot do without it, but as they grow older it turns out to be more a bother which in some instances could even lead to death, rather than an asset. |
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| Foreign Ministry expenditure slashed |
| The government has slashed the Foreign Ministry’s budget by as much as one third of the present expenditure, with immediate effect, Acting Foreign Minister Hussain Bhaila confirmed yesterday. The Treasury has directed that all diplomatic missions abroad should cut down expenses by 30 per cent with immediate effect. The cost-cutting exercise includes expenses incurred by the Foreign Ministry in Colombo. |
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| Crash, bang: Those beyond the law |
| Security escorts and an official of the Ministry of Defence travelling in a private coach sped past a checkpoint knocking down barriers last Thursday and later assaulted a Police Sergeant and a soldier who gave chase and apprehended them, Police and civilians told The Sunday Times. |
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EDITORIAL |
| The tragedy of the Treasury |
The resignation of the Secretary, Ministry of Finance, a.k.a. the Treasury Secretary, this week, is quite historic in the sense that it is the first time since Independence sixty years ago, that a public servant of such rank has quit office following a very serious reprimand on allegation of corruption. |
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PLUS |
| Tea and care |
 During an occasional visit to his family home at Pallansena, a village six miles off Negombo, Merrill J. Fernando found his aged mother quietly wrapping the tea - he had sent earlier from his company - into smaller packs. |
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FINANCIAL TIMES |
| US crisis: Lanka spared |
| As governments across western markets moved to stem the global financial crisis and restore confidence in battered markets following the US financial crisis, officials in Colombo said Sri Lanka so far has been unaffected by the situation. |
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| WORLD CUP! We are down the wrong lane |
 The age old adage about the pack of sticks always has intrigued me. It’s about the old woman advising her disagreeing grandchildren the wisdom of togetherness |
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| The end of Alekeshwara |
 In both Gorakana and Dematagoda, minister Alakeshwara's armies attacked the Jaffna army and serious fighting continued. The soldiers of Jaffna were defeated.
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