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| President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chief of Defence Staff Sarath Fonseka viewing an impressive demonstration by the Army Commando Unit at the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Sri Lanka Army. The unit acted as an Army Rescue Unit during the battle. Pic by Sanka Vidanagama. |
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| Eye to eye encounter |
| Sharks! No it is not a bloody attack but a curious peep at the strange looking “thing”, wondering what has invaded their world. Then a flick of the tail fin, off goes the inquisitive one, but not too far away, to be joined by its siblings and cousins. |
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| SEC reverses own decision in Dharmadasa case |
| The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week, on the advice of the Attorney General, reversed its own decision made earlier in a 3-year old insider trading case against Harshith Dharmadasa, court and sources close to the SEC said. |
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| What do Muslim women want? |
| When caricature takes the place of dialogue, everyone suffers - especially when it comes to understanding issues affecting women, who struggle worldwide against being silenced. Some right-wing American bloggers recently twisted an article that I wrote in a way that did just that. |
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| Is the education system catering to our job market? |
| Try to succeed at a 'role-person fit' and you will find yourself looking for a needle in a hay stack. HR and line managers in organizations have a very big problem with their manpower planning system owing to the lack of required skills in the employment market. |
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| Lankan cricket and 2011 World Cup |
| Getting knocked out of the Champions Trophy is not the end of the world. Just to sum it up the Lankan lads played the game as good any other on day one and faltered on a bad pitch on day two and followed it up with a very bad day in office on day three. This resulted in their demise and so the same happened to even hosts South Africa and India who are the top dogs in all kinds of cricket in the cauldron. |
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| Lanka: Come for KP later |
| Sri Lanka will not heed any requests by foreign governments for their security agencies to interview Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP), head of the Tiger guerrilla procurement wing, until the legal process against him is completed locally. |
| Govt. wants Clinton to withdraw ‘rape’ remark |
| Sri Lanka has called upon US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to retract her remarks that during the 26-year-long war in Sri Lanka rape was used as a tactic of war. |
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| How do we care for them? |
| Some of the more vivid and haunting images that came from the video footage during the last days of the LTTE earlier this year were of the streams of 'walking sticks' - almost the 'walking dead', painfully inching their way out of LTTE-held areas into the safety of Government territory. |
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| The race of the political tortoise and hare -Political Column |
| A parallel is perhaps Aesop's fable of the race between the hare and the tortoise. The speedy hare boasted about how fast he could run. The tortoise challenged it to a race. Half way when the hare fell asleep, the slow and steady tortoise won the race, goes the story. |
| Look for the right one-who’ll keep your promises -5th Column |
I thought I must write to you because the attention of the entire country will be focused on you next week, especially about what you will decide next Saturday, although most seem to think the result is a foregone conclusion. |
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| Hi-tech teacher at their little fingertips |
| White and green, they are toy-like and handy, slightly thicker than the school-slates of old. At the touch of a button, attractive lessons with colourful pictures or other educational activity in the form of games, either in Sinhala or Tamil, light up the laptop screen, accompanied by lilting music.
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| The ruin of the Malabar Army |
| King Buwanekabahu was disturbed over the fact that the enemy was getting stronger. It is at this time that the Prime Minister, Tammita Bandara made a suggestion. His suggestion was to entrust Prince Veediya Bandara, with the sole power over the frontier provinces. |
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