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| Prabath’s lotuses bloom in Cochin |
A designer who has been quietly making inroads into the mega Indian fashion scene Prabath Samarasooriya has been flying the Sri Lankan flag with his characteristic flair. Prabath first showed outside Lankan shores at the Hyderabad Fashion Week in December last year and last month made a splash at the Cochin Fashion Week alongside top Indian designers, such as Riaz Ganji, Vivek Karunakaran, legendary designer Monapali, and many others. |
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| Will the freelancer sign
Sri Lanka Cricket contract? |
Once again the Sri Lankan bowling star Lasith Malinga has been included in the top category of the SLC central player contract for the year 2012/13.
Malinga has been slotted along with top players – skipper Mahela Jayawardena, former skippers Kumar Sangakkara and T.M. Dilshan, Thilan Samaraweera. |
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| Syria says thwarts 1,200 kg car bomb in Aleppo |
BEIRUT, May 12 (Reuters) Syrian forces foiled an attempted suicide car bombing with 1,200 kg (2,640 pounds) of explosives in the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, state television said, a day after two bombs in the capital Damascus killed at least 55 people. |
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| EDITORIAL |
| High-riding cowboys in daylight robberies |
The buyer called it a "strategic initiative", the seller said it was a "horizontal integration"; all pedantic phraseology, but an opposition MP has come to the more accurate conclusion to describe it as "a sophisticated bank robbery".
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| COLUMNS |
| Amid victory day here, crucial talks with US -- Political Column |
Battle tanks, artillery, rockets and rifles that boomed to militarily defeat Tiger guerrillas and the men behind them will go on parade next Saturday, a reminder for Sri Lankans and the world outside, for a third year in succession, how a separatist war was won. |
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| Our role is not to condemn but to reach out |
“Healing is a message that resonates. Those who have faced the brunt of the war are open to it because they know the cost of a war," Brigadier (Retd.) L.C. Perera, founder of the Heal Lanka forum, is thoughtful as he speaks to the Sunday Times about the forum's cause. |
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| Bata Poem for the Week |
original poem and send it in to us. Entries should be in your own handwriting and clearly certified by a teacher or parent as your own |
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