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| Cooking up more than
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The squid is so fresh that the patterns on its skin are still shifting. One can see the sea from the Negombo fish market and it’s one of the reasons Darshan Munidasa considers this one of the best places on the island to purchase seafood. A restaurateur and chef, Darshan is the name behind Nihonbashi, one of country’s finest Japanese restaurants. |
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| Tax Dept. falls short of targets |
The Government, seriously considering a suggestion made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is going ahead with a massive re-organisation of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) as revenue collection is falling far short of expected targets. Last year the revenue collection from the target fell by over Rs. 9 billion.
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| Aid agencies struggle to reach PAK flood victims |
United Nations aid agencies have provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims of Pakistan's worst floods in decades but relief operations have yet to reach an estimated six million people. The lives of 14 million people -- eight percent of the population -- have been disrupted by one of the worst catastrophes in Pakistan's history. |
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| ‘Northumbria-CIMA degree binds Lanka-UK education partnership’ |
Northumbria University, based in Newcastle UK maintains a rep utation as one of Britain's best modern universities and Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA) and being a popular professional qualification in Sri Lanka they launched an innovative degree pathway for CIMA qualified students at the British High Commission, Colombo. |
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| Clubs undermined, provinces up for grabs |
Like a good old river enriched by it feeder points meanders its way into the sea, the Lankan Club Cricket format fed by arguably the most well-organised school cricket system in the world, nurtured the local cricket entity for a century or more. The club cricket system, though not professionalized, had its good points as well as the bad ones. |
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| Watawala Plantations forges ahead with significant growth in profit |
Leonard Cheshire Disability Resource Centre (LCDRC) is a registered voluntary agency which has been instrumental in promoting and protecting the human rights of disabled people for the past 5 years. Comprehensive package of rehabilitation services through cutting edge strategies with rights based approach has enabled thousands of disabled people to live a life with dignity. |
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| EDITORIAL |
| The lessons to
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The US wanted a wider participatory role for the International Community and the Sri Lankan Government was able to fend that off. But it clearly showed that, like in the much worse case of the Indians forcing the dead-duck Provincial Council system down our throats in 1987 on the pretext of devolution of power, the Americans were able to force this Commission on us on the basis of reconciliation. |
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| Rajapaksa-Ranil meeting adds to UNP splits -- Political Column |
It was near midnight last Monday when Opposition United National Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe boarded his car to return home after attending an oaths party of young lawyer at a Kirulapone residence. His mobile phone rang. A security officer answered and handed it over to him. |
| Sword of Damocles hanging over his head! -- 5th Column |
“Thaaththa,” Bindu Udagedera asked, “what is all this fuss about Aacharya Mervyn again?”
“Well, Bindu,” Bindu’s father Percy said, “it looks as if all the fuss about him was not really necessary...”
“Why do you say that, thaaththa?” Bindu asked.
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| Hero in the park |
Mount Rainier National Park situated in Washington sees over a million visitors each year. For Eric Mendis, a Sri Lankan serving in the US Army, it meant the ideal weekend he’d been looking forward to spending with friends. However, the events that unfolded that weekend in June not only caught Eric off guard, but also caught the attention of the US media, namely the Q13 Fox News crew who captured the day’s happenings on camera. |
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| Kirigalpotha Expedition |
For the Young Explorers’ Society, June 25 was a much looked forward to day. Not only was it a holiday, but also the day that their third expedition kicked off, with this one going a step further with a campfire to be held at Horton Plains. This time we planned to scale ‘Kirigalpotha’. |
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| Mind your heart, ladies |
Regular check-ups are essential, stresses Consultant Cardiologist Dr. Ruvan Ekanayaka, Head of the Institute of Cardiology, National Hospital for research worldwide, though no statistics are available for Sri Lanka, has proven that cardio-vascular disease is the No. 1 killer among women, moving away from infectious diseases and childbirth. |
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