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Reflections: Photographic exhibition by students by the Phot...

Keheliya returns, tells Fonseka not to take undue advantage ...

Lankan Seafarer dies in Dubai port

Man held for smuggling 18 gold biscuits hidden in person

Mammoth whale on Eravur beach

President in Kataragama

President Mahinda Rajapaksa took part in religious observances in Krivehera, Kataragama yesterday (May 24).

The President earlier visited the second phase of the Hambantota Port project.

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Keheliya returns, tells Fonseka not to take undue advantage of release

Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella today said that the former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka should not make an attempt to take undue advantage from the presidential pardon granted to him.

Mr Rambukwel...

Lankan Seafarer dies in Dubai port

A Sri Lankan Seafarer employed on a foreign-flagged oil tanker was killed yesterday in a freak accident while working on board at a port in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a senior official with the I...

Man held for smuggling 18 gold biscuits hidden in person

Custom officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport(BIA) arrested a Sri Lankan man attempting to smuggle Rs.15 million worth 18 gold biscuits hidden in person.

Custom officials said that this i...

Mammoth whale on Eravur beach

A mammoth whale, some 55 feet in length was washed ashore on a beach front in the eastern town of Batticoloa on Thursday night.

The dead whale was found by fishermen at dawn today on the beach at Eravu...

Devanayagam Hall put to the torch

Unidentified persons on late Thursday night torched the Devanayagam Memorial Hall situated in the Batticoloa Town 48 hours before a Tamil political party was to use it as a venue for its annual conven...

Nalaka steps down from top Sri Lankan Tourism positions

Dr Nalaka Godahewa on Thursday stepped down from three tourism-related positions but said he would continue as Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.
In a statement, he said he was resign...

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Egyptians swarm polling centres on day 2 of landmark vote

CAIRO, May 24, 2012 (AFP) - Egyptians swarmed polling stations on the second day Thursday of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are ...

World Videos

Sherlock Holmes fans fight to save author Arthur Conan Doyle's house

Mark Gatiss, the writer behind the BBC's Sherlock series, says the state of disrepair of Arthur Conan Doyle's house is disgraceful

Courtesy - Tel...

Analysis

Lebanon sucked into Syria unrest: Analysts - By Rana Moussaoui

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 22, 2012 (AFP) - Lebanon has fallen hostage to the conflict in neighbouring Syria following deadly sectarian clashes between the ...

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Colombo shares slide; traders blame SEC for tightening rules

Colombo stocks slid further on Thursday where both benchmark indices closed with negative returns, following SEC directives on broker trading, analyst...

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David Cameron: EU leaders must agree on a plan for Greece

Speaking outside a summit for Eu leaders in Brussels, the Prime Minister says European leaders must be decisive over Greece.

Courtesy - Telegraph TV

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TEA assertion on revenue gains doesn’t add up

Letter

The denial by some members of the TEA that they are lobbying to import cheap tea is laughable. The sole purpose of the exercise, as stated in th...

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Reflections: Photographic exhibition by students by the Photographic Society

Reflecting the photographic work of 20 students as showcased by the Photographic Society of Sri Lanka (PSSL) an exhibition will be held on M...

Appreciations/Letters

Letter:Callous bosses who care naught for their employees

It seems that employers in certain private sector companies, and even certain multinational companies, are taxing their employees to the limit, and be...

Interviews/Stories

Combating epidemics when we were Ceylon

Research scholars usually keep to the narrow confines of the subject of their interest. However, Dr. S. Ananda Meegama PhD, an internationally known d...