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| Damage-control
after disaster |
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President tells ministers, officials to visit funeral
houses and the injured; full state assistance for
final rites of Muhamalai heroes |
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| STF
moves into Tiger territory |
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The Special Task
Force (STF) on Thursday regained areas in the Ampara
district, bringing them under government control for
the first time in 20 years. |
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| Germany
puts pressure on Lanka, aid frozen |
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FRANKFURT- Germany has officially frozen any new aid
for projects in Sri Lanka in a bid to put pressure
on the government and the LTTE to get back to peace
talks. |
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| PLUS
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| From
DUNG to THIS |
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It is perhaps coincidental that Elephant, Ecology
and Economy all begin with the same letter. However,
someone has linked the dots and found a connection! |
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| Lanka’s
first silver rupee |
| After
almost 15 years in the vaults of the Central Bank,
surviving a bomb blast in 1996, the first and probably
last Silver Rupee from Sri Lanka, issued after.... |
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| Father
as mother |
| A recent
study on the crisis facing Sri Lankan families when
a mother works abroad confirms many past findings but
there is a new, important one .... |
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| Dengue:
The blame game goes on |
| Have
a chat with anyone today. They will either know of
someone who has been in hospital with dengue or themselves
been a victim of this disease. |
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President Mahinda
Rajapksa yesterday paid his last respects at
the residences of two soliders who died in the
Muhamalai attack. Picture shows the President
paying his respects to soldier H. M. Nandasiri
at his Galgamuwa residence. With the President
is North Western Province Chief Minister S.
B. Navinna. Pic by Suadth Silva |
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| FINANCIAL
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| Tea Board CEO
sent ‘home’ |
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H.D. Hemaratne, Director-General of the Sri Lanka Tea
Board, was sent on compulsory leave last week by its
chairman H.A.C. Abeywardene in a move that shocked the... |
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| PBJ - judge,
jury & executioner? |
| A sub-committee of
COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) last week, summoned
officials from institutions involved in the sale of Sri
Lanka Insurance Corporation (SLIC) for clarification... |
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| Harry
to retain Apollo name? |
| India’s
Apollo Hospitals Chairman, Dr. Prathap Reddy is due in
Sri Lanka this month for talks with business tycoon Harry
Jayawardena... |
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| SPORTS
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| The
domino winds |
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Unheralded Sri Lanka turned the ICC Champions Trophy
on its head as the defending champions West Indies suffered
a humiliating blow to lose by nine wickets... |
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| Maharoof
over the moon |
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Farveez Maharoof, the wrecker of the ambitious West
Indies cricket team, expressed an over-the-moon feeling
but also paid tribute to his team-mates for... |
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| And
now we meet the ‘big guns’ |
| Irrespective
of what transpired yesterday, now both Sri Lanka and
the West Indies team managements must be at the drawing
boards once again to work out how they would steer through
the rest of the tournament which is also a very fine
precursor to the World Cup in the West Indies early
next year. |
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