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Friday, May 25 2012

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Sri Lankan stocks crumble for the fifth straight session

Sri Lankan repatriates in Araku left to fend for themselves

Two arrested with fake currency

Three school boys held for gang rape

18 hour water-cut in Colombo North area

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

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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.

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Sri Lankan repatriates in Araku left to fend for themselves

The Sri Lankan repatriates of Indian origin rehabilitated in the coffee plantations in the Araku Valley and Chintapalle agency areas are nobody's children. They are living like second class citizens ...

Three school boys held for gang rape

Three school boys were arrested yesterday after they are alleged to have gang-raped a 15-year-old fellow female student at a school in Sellawathura in the Mannar District, police said today.

They said ...

Two arrested with fake currency

Two persons were caught red-handed with a bundle of counterfeit currency notes at Kahawatte in the Pelmadulla area yesterday, police said today.

The pair was apprehended after a chase by members of th...

Lankan Seafarer dies in Saudi port

A Sri Lankan seafarer employed on a foreign flagged oil tanker was killed in a freak accident while working on board at a port in Saudi Arabia, a senior official with the International Transport worke...

18 hour water-cut in Colombo North area

An 18-hour water cut from 10.00 a.m. on Saturday (26) will affect Fort, Kotahena, Mattakkuliya, Mutwal, Crow Island, Jinthupitiya, Aluth Mawatha and G.R.D.Silva Mawatha areas, National Water Supply an...

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...

World

Setting

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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 ...

Business

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News

Sri Lankan stocks crumble for the fifth straight session

Sri Lankan stocks crumbled for the fifth straight session on Friday to a new four month low, i...

Discussion/Business Videos

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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Analysis

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...

Features

Setting

Events

Reflections: Photographic exhibition by students of the Photographic Society

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

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...