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Seeing Christmas stars, a shocked Speaker W.J.M. Lokubandara makes a comment on the measly size of a stringhopper served at the Diyawanna Nattal dinner held on Tuesday at his official residence. Pic by J. Weerasekera
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Govt. defies SC, what next?
- Political Column |
 A head-on confrontation between the Government and the Supreme Court over lowering petrol prices became inevitable this week after Ministers agreed there will be no revision. Certainly not for the moment. |
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| Iran encounters Obama |
Since its Islamist revolution of 1979, Iran’s hardline leadership has relentlessly painted America as a racist, bloodthirsty power bent on oppressing Muslims worldwide. |
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| A look back at 2008 |
 Another year comes to an end. A very eventful one, with mega movies such as Dark Knight setting new box office records, to India's 9/11, |
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| 'Machan’ wins kudos at Kerala |
'Machan', Academy nominated filmmaker Ubarto Passilini's Sri Lankan production won the Audience award at the recently held 13th edition of International Film Festival of Kerala. |
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| Academy of Design flies high |
 "Sri Lanka's fashion industry is still at an embryonic stage and I am so privileged to be able to create, re-define and formulate its very future with my contributions. |
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More Education |
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| >TOP NEWS |
| TMVP to be disarmed |
 The Government is to disarm the feuding factions of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP). The move, The Sunday Times learns, is prompted by several reasons. |
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EDITORIAL |
| Wars and woes of 2008 |
As another year winds down, it is perhaps timely to look back and also ponder what lies ahead for us. Clearly, the 'war' in the North-East theatre has been the single-most crucial issue before the country. |
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| Battered by tsunami, now by bureaucracy |
| They too once had a roof over their heads. But the tsunami snatched away those happy homes, all their hard-earned belongings and even those near and dear to them. |
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FINANCIAL TIMES |
| Another CPC scam exposed |
Hard on the heels of the oil hedging disaster follows another scandalous project where the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) entered into a US$1.7 billion refinery expansion with an Iranian company for 50,000 barrels capacity at a cost that is more than twice that of a previous proposal. |
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| Ajantha given the greenlight by Sports Minister |
Sri Lanka’s mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis will leave the island tomorrow to join the rest of the squad as an extra player and in all probability will be a part of the action in the second Test which is scheduled to begin in Chittagong, Bangladesh on January 3. |
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| Sri Lanka - In the 16th century |
 In the latter part of his rule, King Veera Parakramabahu VIII, had divided the Kotte kingdom into four parts. His four sons – Dharma Parakramabahu, Vijayabahu, |
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