The people and farmers in Dambulla are in a vegetable soup, while it is a veritable banquet for the elephants. This came about after the middlemen or vegetable mafia of Dambulla turned tables by stopping vegetable lorries coming from Jaffna, buying the products cheap and sending them to Colombo and other places. So the small farmers of Dambulla and nearby areas had no option but to give their stocks of perishing vegetables to the lucky elephants. Pic by Kanchana Kumara Ariyadasa
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[05-07-2009]
TOP NEWS
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Politically-backed traders at the Dambulla Economic Centre are buying increasing supplies of vegetables from the farmers of the liberated Northern Province forcing growers elsewhere to throw their produce to the animals as prices are artificially manipulated, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed.
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Cuba is to send some experts to Sri Lanka for discussions and relevant studies with authorities after which a decision would be taken over the type of ‘bug’ or bacteria needed against the dengue menace which has caused the deaths of 163 and affected nearly 15,000 others.
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The corridors of political power are buzzing with speculation about the possible 'political solution' to the Tamil question in the afterglow of the military victory over the separatist LTTE last month.
COLUMNS
 
Presidential poll likely in January
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With a separatist war now behind him, President Mahinda Rajapaksa appears poised to engage personally on many a political and economic war.
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The resurgent economy in the North should not be a mere revival of the economy that was there before the war but an economy vastly different in structure and performance.
   
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