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Going home for Avurudu

Govt. curbs jobs for Indian skilled workers

New Year dawns at 1.29 a.m.

CID exposes huge land rackets

Commonwealth Secretariat raises queries over transfers of judges

Tough new laws to ensure you get clean food

Electricity consumption hits peak; CEB appeals for New Year restraint

Korean job visas on hold; plans to evacuate Lankans

CFL bulbs: A household friend but a foe of the environment

World Heritage site in danger with power lines coming up in nature sanctuary

Separate power generation accounts will show where CEB costs rise, says expert

Civil Aviation DG on water holes around Mattala

Rs. 490 million Pak cement deal under scrutiny

JVP will not appear before panel, complains to IGP of soldiers visiting site

Trouble agents of Sri Lanka

SL artistes stage Adishtana Pooja against TN counterparts

Who’s the prettiest of them all?

Lanka’s external debt rises to Rs. 3.5 trillion, says CB

Pipe-borne water and sewer facilities for Kataragama sacred city

Views on collision course as Govt. takes U-turn on speed

Lankans in Korea dismiss war fears; but worried family members want them back

The air is foul with disease, despair and deferred solutions

Huge shell-creatures dragged out live to satisfy foreign demand

Lankans join hands across the nation to celebrate Avurudu

The elusive New Year messenger

Fag smuggling racket masterminded from behind bars: Customs

Rules observed in the breach

An Asian tribute to Mrs. Thatcher

Editorial

New Year reflections for religious harmony

Columns

Accountability in Kerry’s New Year message

Relief for casinos while life is a gamble for the people

Foreign policy outsourced at Rs. 500,000 a day

New Year teeming with old woes

The content and quality of economic growth

An honest reckoning of a tormented past

A rhetorical trap: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Sports

Vaas’ vision to make Lankan bowlers shine again

Stage set for secret-ballot SLC polls

A stitch in time, but a knock for the future

It was all awe at the Diyawanna waters

Turning professional the route forward for Lankan rugby, du Plessis

Palitha Weerasinghe re-elected squash president

Sumith re-elected for Hockey

Whither Sri Lanka cricket?

Who woke this pachyderm in slumber?

Corporate Kings win Agri Business Trophy

Jaffna undergrads win Netball title

Women batters felicitated

Naveed takes major honours

Colombo South emerge champions

Gamini MV clinches Jayaweera Trophy

Sorry Most Popular Cricket results next week

‘Ten Sports’ to get Lankan TV rights till 2020

Mahagastota, Foxhill, Nuwara Eliya races from this week

Davis Cup ‘Team making’

A cue for Rugby —Take your guard and get ready for the next inning

Schools rugby red carded

DS Smashes badminton tourney begins on May 15

Did the selectors err with their championship choices

Malshan, Malinda guide Negombo CC to victory

Chemila heroics give St. Peter’s title

Silver spurs and super stallions – book your corner now

Plus

There’s a time for everything

Sweet labour

Appreciations

Letters to the Editor

Bring out those white beauties

Amazing and frightening

Avurudu traditions come but once a year

The Koha, the Flute and the Arrow

A Grand venture

CFW: Rekindling pride in local labels

A Common Man bags bronze at New York film festival

Achieving a great feat with her feet

Papal passage: All 265 of them

Using English to learn Sinhala and Tamil

Island of a Thousand Mirrors shortlisted for Commonwealth Book Prize

Re-reading Ini Avan in the context of post-war realities

People and events

Lankan plays vital role at inauguration of 105th Archbishop of Canterbury

125 years of service and sacrifice

RASSL forums explore Sri Lankan Social Sciences and Humanities

The railway’s non-racial model

Business Times

Deadly entertainment on the green

Friendly environment for WA domestic workers

Government indirectly seeks funds from international markets

Four new units to operate domestic airlines

Extend retirement period in Sri Lanka, says CB

Union Bank gearing for growth in related businesses

Central Bank to inject over Rs.600 mln to revive Golden Key

Rajapaksa calls for positive outlook on government’s development drives

SL reserves in line with IMF metrics

United we flourish; divided we perish

Not easy to prevent mushrooming unauthorised finance units : CB

Risk management measures in place to protect depositors

Central Bank urges public to avoid defacing notes

Singer Sunil sings a different song; says huge saving by using solar power

Central Bank retirees given plum jobs in banks

Investment drive by THAATA cement in Hambantota

Launch of a computerised labour inspection system in Sri Lanka

Saranapala, guru of 5S and Kaisen productivity concepts, wins recognition

First Capital Treasuries, GAC Shipping new CA Sri Lanka training partners

JAT Holdings wins most innovative and informative stall

Recent attacks on business more worrying than lower export earnings

SriLankan Cargo nears record-breaking year

Bates Strategic Alliance celebrates 20th Anniversary

NDB in giant step to revive small industry

1/3rd of piling work over at Sri Lanka’s tallest condominium

Amusing name boards on Lankan streets

Intel, Ministry of Education launches improved Internet-based teaching tools

Bank of Ceylon raises massive $1 bln in past 12 mths

New board to run Golden Key

Education better than cash to motivate corner shops : BBDO

SJMS triumphs at Inter-Auditors Quiz Finals

Times are changing in Sri Lanka’s once, harsh plantation sector

ADB’s projection of SL GDP at 6.8% in 2013, lower than CB target of 7.5 %

BA resumes flights to Colombo, special fares offer to UK

World’s largest PR firm Edelman enters Sri Lanka through PR Wire

Sri Lankan IT growth fastest in region

TopDocOpinions to ‘globalise’ SL healthcare via remote diagnosis

Falck to launch ‘Emergency 1990′ Android GPS app

MAS acquires fashion IT consultancy attune

WSO2 new subsidiary enters mobile computing

Local IT Company Microimage adds ‘key’ Maldives contracts

J’pura Uni to add Digital Marketing course with Ogilvy help

Sunday Times 2

North Korea able to launch nuclear attack – Pentagon

Angelina Jolie brings star power to the G8 summit

Teeing off at edge of the Arctic? A Chinese plan baffles Iceland

‘Queen Thatcher is dead’

Bookmakers slash odds on Alexandra for UK royal baby name

Chinese officer accuses United States of secret biological attack

See-through brains promise to clear up mental mysteries

Fruit juice chocolate

Breakthrough in bid to find treatment for degenerative diseases

Magazine

Five star adventures without the price tag

O- Tone for those who are serious about getting into shape

Avurudu spirit

Kyudo, Aikido and Iaido: It’s Japanese martial arts

Follow the great smells and you’ll find Kottuville

Recycled chic

PalVision has come to stay in Lanka

‘Crossroads’ on highway

Lankika back in the saddle

Universal soldiers back

Sriyantha, Kamal star in “Adieu to Acting”

Medagedara; a Message to Women

Spandhana introduces Horror to Lankan cinema

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Funday Times

Mahavamsa | History

Elena; Russian tale on a couple from different backdrops

Kids’ World

Earth Watch | Avurudu

The Kevum Tree

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