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Sri Lanka won a diplomatic victory this week when the United Nations Human Rights Council rejected a call by western nations to probe alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. If there was hectic diplomatic activity in Geneva with protagonists for the resolution engaging each other, UNHCR's Representative in Sri Lanka was other wise busy. He was enjoying a new chore - taking part in a promotional event at a city hotel. Picture by Sanka Vidanagama
COLUMNS
Polls and more polls after double victory
- Political Column
The triumphalism continues. In the aftermath of a decisive battlefield victory twelve days ago came a remarkable diplomatic success on Wednesday.
RRR: Rehabilitation Reconstruction and Reconciliation -The Economic Analysis
The immense costs for rehabilitation of around 300,000 refugees and the reconstruction of the North and East are mind boggling.
INTERNATIONAL
Pak support for Taliban war grows but Pushtun problem looms large
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh distributed key cabinet portfolios on Saturday after the Congress party's resounding victory in national elections.
 
 
MAGAZINE
See Sigiriya and learn Sigiriya
It is a tale of treachery and deceit, love and hate, triumph and disaster that has fascinated people down the ages. It is also a tale of craftsmanship and sensuous art, the legacy of which still holds people in awe, more than 15 centuries later.
 
  FUNDAY
The value of money -- Poem for the week
I walk miles in the scorching sun,

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.... EDUCATION
APIIT Law School to Offer Internal British Degrees in Law
APIIT - Sri Lanka, the leading private higher education institute in the country, has announced the setting up of a modern law school in Colombo to offer internal British degrees in Law.
TOP NEWS
Hedging probe gathers pace
Detectives of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) raided the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation’s headquarters in Kollupitiya on Friday to seize files and documents on the controversial oil hedging deal.
Top Tiger leaders in security forces net

Some top Tiger guerrillas are now in the military net after they were located in camps housing internally displaced people.

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EDITORIAL
Working with the West: The way ahead
The Government's triumph over terrorism last week was soured by a concerted effort this week by European Union member states to bring charges of human rights violations against Sri Lankan leaders.
  PLUS
Recipe for relief
For many of the 300,000 people living in the IDP camps in Wanni, a simple hot meal has become a luxury they hardly dare dream about. Wanting to make at least a little difference in the lives of these Sri Lankans
  FINANCIAL TIMES
Fresh challenge to oil hedge payments
A fresh challenge has been mounted against payments being made by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) to five banks led by Standard Chartered in the controversial oil hedging deals.
SPORTS
A question of safety for Lankans at T 20 WC
Intermingle of politics and sports have gone off the track more often than not. As far as my memory goes the first such instance that I can recollect is the Basil D’Oliveira affair where the matters pertaining to South African born English cricketer’s selection to the then racially segregated
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