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Several small-time businessmen from Colombo have stormed the sidewalks of Jaffna town with their merchandise as business flourished in the peninsula ahead of the Deepavali festival tomorrow. Traders paid Rs. 20,000 each for a return air ticket to Jaffna.
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| Women and the American Presidential Campaign |
 Barack Obama and John McCain are the two contenders in America's presidential election this year, but the campaign has also been dominated by two very different women, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. |
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| Clouding the information highway |
 Just ten years ago, most people did not have mobile phones or computers and broadband Internet was almost unheard of. Yet today |
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More Education |
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| Basil goes to India with bagful of documents |
| A special emissary of President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to assure the Government of India that adequate food supplies are available for civilians in the war-torn Wanni. |
| No time to debate 21 ministries in next year’s Budget |
Parliament’s inability to find time to debate all the 50 different ministries has resulted in both the Government and Opposition agreeing to have a Standing Committee to debate 21 of them, and only the balance taken up during the Budget debate. |
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EDITORIAL |
| Media freedom is your freedom |
This week, the main associations representing the publishers, editors, working journalists and media activists came together to mark the 10th anniversary of the Colombo Declaration on Media Freedom and Social Responsibility. |
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PLUS |
| The many ills of a little pill |
 A quality failure, a drug is withdrawn from the state and private sectors but doctors are concerned not only whether there has been adequate “transparency” in letting people know about the issue but also whether the efficacy of the substitute is any better. |
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FINANCIAL TIMES |
| LMSL - land clearly belonged to SLPA |
The minutes of two board meetings of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), a respondent in the Lanka Marine Services Limited (LMSL) fundamental rights petition case, reveal that the then SLPA Chairman Parakrama Dissanayake had been pressurized by certain persons into signing the privatization agreement. |
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SPORTS |
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| Lost our way in cricket! |
| A human going back on his words is not a new phenomenon. However, the consequences of it could be devastating. |
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| Chinese relations |
 The details relating to the early life of Parakramabahu VI, that are available locally, are not quite clear. There are a few descriptions in the Chinese sources too.
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Latest News October 26 - November 1 |
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Besides confronting Tiger guerrillas, troops in the battlefields of Wanni have come up against another formidable "enemy," the incessant rains, with the northeast monsoon in full swing. 
It seemed a case of the tail wagging the head. In Chennai, a smaller crowd of demonstrators burnt an effigy of Tiger guerrilla leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
‘Legends of Sri Lankan Pop’, spectacular star studded Concert will come alive at The BMICH on November 11. 
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