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One destroyed, one damaged: Two Russian Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships following Monday’s LTTE attack on the Anuradhapura airbase. Inset: the body of an LTTE cadre killed in the attack.

NEWS
Head Line of the week |
AG exposes huge vehicle fraud
Massive frauds in the clearance of imported vehicles through Customs are depriving the state of ‘millions of rupees’, the Auditor General has told the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.
 
Milk food goes loose after price hike...
The shortage of milk powder culminating in a staggering price hike on Friday has forced thousands of people to buy milk food not by the packet but loose in small quantities.

 


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FINANCIAL TIMES
When heroism reigned over terror Tax chief misled PAC - Hakeem
A paper trail into the past………leading back more than 50 years to a time unlike now, when even one brutal murder sent waves of shock and horror across the country. In an era sans television, newspapers were grabbed off the stands, with the public poring over every word, line and black and...
Legal experts and parliamentarians have expressed divergent views over a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) decision to ask the Finance Ministry to probe the Tax chief over alleged involvement in the VAT fraud amounting to Rs 3.57 billion.While some members of the PAC said the committee had taken a decision to send a letter requesting that Tax Commissioner-General A.A. Wijepala.....
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“It’s almost impossible to understand!” says Dr. Dushyanthi Mendis. We are leaning over a mobile phone, struggling through a thicket of acronyms; a virtual forest of abbreviations – and just barely getting somewhere. Perhaps it’s the complete lack of punctuation.....
It was 2,100 kg of kottu for some 4,000 guests who flocked the Hilton Colombo on Sunday for a one of a kind event. Forty chefs from the hotel’s Curry Leaf restaurant worked through the evening to prepare 7,000 portions of chicken kottu to meet the excess .....
COLUMNS
Political Thoughts from London
LTTE attacks Air base; Govt. attacks media From bluster to more bluff and blunder
   
Situation Report Focus on Rights
Pre-dawn pounce Discussing mock turtles and commissions of....
 


SPORTS INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY MUSINGS | S.R. Pathiravithana INTERNATIONAL | Gahri Khudabaksh, Pakistan
In a country Murali bashing is a sport Bhutto braves threats, arrives in....
It is a well known fact that it is only the hard at heart who can go to Australia for a cricket series and survive to fight another day. The slightest hint of a team/player or both posing a threat to their supremacy will set off a rankling which will have many ....... Benazir Bhutto arrived in her ancestral village today amid tight security in her first public trip in Pakistan since suicide bombers shattered her homecoming parade. Several thousand people clapped and chanted “Benazir” as the former premier arrived in a bullet-proof jeep .....
   
Notes from Down Under | Chaminda Vaas INTERNATIONAL | Singapore
Taking up the Aussie challenge..... Rocking party at 40,000 feet
Australia, the largest test playing nation is also currently the best. To beat them in their own country is test cricket’s greatest challenge. In a few days, Sri Lanka will be taking on that task. Such an opportunity is a dream come true for any professional cricketer and we are relishing the challenge.Although the two test tour takes place in Brisbane,..... Thomas Lee on Thursday became one of the first passengers aboard the world's largest commercial aircraft - again. In 1970, at the age of 17, Lee rode with his family on the inaugural flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet from New York to London .....


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Everybody plays the fool The invasion of Bruma
"When shall we meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?" Well, in rain anyway, because I have noticed that's when you run into your most hated male mistakes. Always when it's raining – he suddenly turns up with a brand-new shiny blonde on his arm, whose hair seems to just repel water.
King Parakramabahu assembled his commanders. He explained in detail, all the ill-treatment and the risks suffered by the Sinhala traders, on their visits to Burma. He made it clear to them that the only solution left, was war.The king added, .....


TV TIMES
MEDISCENE
Shirley's soothing songs
‘I sing on love for I believe that it is the only everlasting theme that comforts all human beings despite their age barriers’ said Visharadha Shirley Waijayantha making a return to singing after a lapse of a long years.
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International
   
Miss England told to fatten up
   
India TV channels pulled after massacre expose: Reports
   
   
President's wife poised to take power in Argentina
   
Bank pushes Mumbai's prostitutes to save
   
Why Turkish army will stay home
   
America's self-defeating hegemony
   
Arctic scramble
   
Firefighters start beating back California blazes
   
TV Times
Walks the Line
   
   
Black Mor's Island': French animation
   
'Rodeo nite at Texas Ranch' Airport Garden
   
Jaffna Food at Holiday Inn is back
   
Sri Lanka Tourism undeterred, stays on course for the coming winter season
   
Real ‘Haloween Howl’ at Palm Beach Hotel
   

 

News
SC orders tariff reduction but SLT bills may go up
   
Jennings issue: Campus still in chaos
   
Isipathana loses land to Moragoda
   
Research on rice-like seed
 
Appeal in ABC suspension case tomorrow
 
Bad weather to continue
 
Shaul Hameed on why he did not vote - Right of reply
 
Odds & Ends
 
SriLankan gets a breather
 
AIDS threat increasing with drug injections
 
Teachers to strike as deadlock continues
 
 
Peace bridge to unite a people
 
Mihinair gobbles up Rs. 500 Million supplementary estimates
 
Men missing in VAT scam
   
Higher and higher
   
10 years RI for sexual assault
   
Trincomalee celebrates Kumbam festival
   
Death for Kantale killer
   
They sacrificed their young lives for Lanka
   
No fresh milk or milk powder so no nutrition for children
   
Whither the Ceylon Workers Congress
   
Terrorism: Hillary’s comments draw fire
   
UNP seeks early parliamentary poll through public petition
   
JVP to launch week-long protest campaign
   
Govt. moves to get better pay for migrant Lankans
   
Hit-and-run case: Eyewitnesses wanted
   
FM at Interior Ministers conference
   

Sports
‘Cool it’ orders CA to gallant Gillespie
 
 
 
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Plus
Letters to the editor
  Criticism aimed at Govt., not at troops
  Enhancing the power of protection
 
Appreciations
  Lt. Gen. Parami Kulatunge
  Suren Wickremesinghe
  Hiran Sri KirthiSingha
   
Features
  Assisting women, teaching a Buddhist way of life
  The light side and dark side of kasippu trade
  Don't let that green-eyed monster gobble you up
   
Travel
  On the golden road to Samarkand
   
People and events
  It was a learning experience
  Tenwatte School gets budu medura
  Sarvodaya Chief gives message of peace
  Conferred title of 'Deshamanya'
  Events album
  Be stimulated by Kundalini yoga
  Legacy of a master
  Doing it the Ikebana way
  Salads and other goodies at Trans Asia

 


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