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They came, they saw and they crashed
An orange fireball lights up the night skyline of the metropolis on Friday shortly after an explosives-laden LTTE aircraft crashed onto the back of the Inland Revenue Department building.Pix by Ranjith Perera |
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Sinhalisation of the SLFP
Political Column |
The February 14 provincial polls ended as expected with significant victories to the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA). Even more significant, as one poll gives way to another, are the unexpected realities that have dawned. |
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| It’s tonight! Don’t miss those groovy blues |
| He is a Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist, she a Scottish songbird and together they are in Sri Lanka to treat fans to a night of superlative jazz on the British Council lawn at 7 p.m. |
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| Tests blamed for blighting children's lives |
| Landmark study of primary schools calls for teachers to be freed of targets. Children's lives are being impoverished by the government's insistence that schools focus on literacy and numeracy at the expense of creative teaching, |
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More Education |
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| Plans to evacuate civilians |
| A high-level team of the United States Pacific Command (US PACOM) from their headquarters in Hawaii is now in Colombo for this purpose. The exercise, The Sunday Times learns, will involve US military assets, including those of the Air Force and the Navy. |
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| Tigers go kamikaze but attacks fail |
| Tiger guerrillas for the first time tried out a kamikaze-style suicide bomb attack in Colombo by packing the two light aircraft with more than 200 kilograms of explosives each, investigators reported yesterday. Police and the Government Analyst’s Department |
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EDITORIAL |
| Price of complacency |
| Friday night's air raid over Colombo was more than a gentle reminder to all and sundry on the dangers of complacency. |
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PLUS |
| Save Bundala |
| The flamingoes have flown from Bundala. The National Park on Sri Lanka’s south-eastern coast, known for its water birds and picturesque landscapes of lagoons, water reeds, forest and wildlife is in crisis |
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FINANCIAL TIMES |
| New investors for Seylan |
| New capital is to be injected into Seylan Bank, recently taken over by the regulator, to instill confidence in the bank, according to a Central Bank (CB) plan. |
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SPORTS |
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| Heir apparent and taking cricket forward |
| As a being who is passionately in love with the game of cricket, especially when it comes within the context of ‘Made in Sri Lanka’, usually the barometer of my happiness changes along with it. |
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| A new political alliance is formed |
| February 22, 1956 is a significant day in the political history of Sri Lanka. That was the day the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP – United People's Front) was formed under the leadership of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, |
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