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The voter turnout in most booths in the North Western and Central Provincial Council elections yesterday was low in the morning hours, but picked up later in the day. A lone voter is seen walking into a booth in Katugastota, Kandy last morning.
Pic by J.Weerasekara |
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Brown bombshell in battle with Britain
Political Column |
| As troops stepped up their efforts to flush out Tiger guerrillas from the little remaining terrain in the Mullaitivu district, the Government redoubled its efforts to counter international pressure to halt its military campaign. |
The road to economic prosperity is long
The Economic Analysis |
Any expectation of a spectacular spurt in economic growth is unrealistic for three fundamental reasons. First, the end of the war per se is inadequate to provide the surge to growth. A long-lasting robust peace is the actual precondition for economic development. |
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| Slumdog Oscar: A cause for India to celebrate |
| Indians haven't often had much to root for at the Oscars, Hollywood's annual celebration of cinematic success. Only two Indian movies have been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category in the last 50 years, and neither won. |
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| Beyond the subject, into the spiritual |
| Naureen Naqvi is enjoying the luxury of being a full-time artist. She has only been in Colombo a week but her mind is brimming with ideas and her sketchpad is filling up fast. Not surprisingly for this accomplished artist, her calendar is already full for the months ahead. |
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| A sixth of a GCSE in 60 minutes? |
| Teenagers at a school in Tyneside are trying out a new kind of learning that combines physical activity with short bursts of teaching - and promises amazing results. So can Patrick Barkham pass a science exam after just one hour-long lesson? |
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More Education |
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| Oasis Hospital's physiotherapy unit |
| The most valuable thing in life today is one's health. Unfortunately however, at some point or another we are prone to various kinds of illnesses at some stage in our lives. Modern medicines have been most effective in providing us |
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| Too much water in the brain |
| The abnormal accumulation of a water-like substance called cerebrospinal fluid in the brain is called hydrocephalus. The word Hydrocephalus comes from the Greek 'hydro' meaning water and 'cephalus' meaning head. |
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| Major sea rescue of 25,000 civilians |
| The government and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are discussing a major sea-evacuation plan for an estimated 25,000, displaced people now gathered in the coastal front of Mullaitivu, the government and the ICRC confirmed yesterday. |
| Prabha planning mass suicide: Basil |
| Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa claimed yesterday that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was planning a mass suicide involving himself and hundreds of hardcore cadres on the beaches of Mullaitivu as the security forces continued to close in from several directions |
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EDITORIAL |
| PC polls: Points to ponder |
| Yesterday's Provincial Council election results will be out by today. The outcome was a foregone conclusion given voter lethargy, the understanding that governments can't be changed in these elections, |
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| Wake up! dengue on the prowl |
| Two children are dead – a girl and a boy, both about eight years old, both living in the same area and both attending the same school. What went wrong in the Modera-Mattakkuliya area that two children had to die in the first month of 2009, |
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| Pay more attention to performance |
| After quite a while many players have been given the opportunity to play for Sri Lanka. Partly because there has been plenty of cricket including test matches, one dayers and a T20 team game, partly because the results of the team has been inconsistent. |
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| A treaty with the king |
| It was with the intention of getting the trade monopoly that the Portuguese tried to enter into a treaty with the king. It is the king, who held the trade monopoly at this time. In India too, the Portuguese did the same thing. |
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