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Not without my books:A family who fled their house in the LTTE-controlled Kallar area arrive in the Government-controlled side in Nellumkulam yesterday. Clutching on to their personal belongings, the family which included a young girl with her school books, made a dash for freedom after wading across a lagoon in waist-high water at Chundikulam before being eventually picked up by the security forces and later transported to an IDP shelter. Pic by Priyantha Hewage |
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| An outdoor man |
Ifthikar Cader favours a form of painting known as ‘plein air’, derived from the French phrase ‘en plein air’ which simply means in the open air. |
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More Education |
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| 20% devaluation or IMF bailout |
| Sri Lankan economists say devaluation or a bailout package from the IMF is inevitable to head off a foreign exchange crisis where reserves have fallen to little more than six weeks of imports but the Central Bank (CB) is adamant that it has its own strategies to tackle the situation. |
| Heavy clashes: 20 Tigers, 7 soldiers killed |
| At least seven soldiers and 20 LTTE cadres were killed at Dharmapuram on the Paranthan – Mullaitivu road, as Tiger guerrillas continued to offer pockets of resistance to the advancing security forces who are closing in on the last positions held by them, defence sources said yesterday. |
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EDITORIAL |
| Development before Devolution |
The problem with Foreign Ministry media statements is that after one was heavily criticised recently by members of their own senior staff, and the contents therein severely challenged, they have lost their credibility. |
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PLUS |
| Chasing Civets |
Hopping on a bus on Friday evening for a night-long journey either to Moneragala or Knuckles, eating papaw and nothing else most of Saturday |
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FINANCIAL TIMES |
| Probe against banks, officials continue |
A possible withdrawal of fundamental rights petitions in the Supreme Court against the controversial oil hedging contracts by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is unlikely to affect independent investigations |
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| SLC sees big score on sponsorship board |
Sri Lanka Cricket which was looking into an empty barrel a few weeks ago with no bidders for sponsorships is all smiles once again with its luck changing – at least for the time being. |
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| The arrival of the Portuguese |
| It was eight years, since Vasco da Gama had sailed past the Cape of Good Hope. The King of Kotte at this time was King Veera Parakramabahu VIII. Pararajasekaram was the King of Jaffna. |
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