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Tamil Nadu activists protesting Manmohan Singh Trichy visit detained
[TamilNet, Friday, 02 August 2013, 23:48 GMT]Hundreds of activists who protested Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Trichy were detained by the Tamil Nadu police on Friday. The protestors,...
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Political parties in Sri Lanka cooperate to find solutions to the...
Sat, Aug 3, 2013, 10:33 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Aug 03, Colombo: Representatives of all political parties in the Gampaha District got together Friday afternoon to discuss and find...
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Bar Association of Sri Lanka calls for an impartial investigation into...
Sat, Aug 3, 2013, 09:53 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Aug 03, Colombo: The Bar Association of Sri Lanka while condemning the attack on protesters at Weliweriya has called on the...
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Sri Lanka's main opposition requests for Commonwealth poll observers for the...
Sat, Aug 3, 2013, 07:40 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Aug 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) has requested for election observers from the Commonwealth...
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Another villager dies in Sri Lanka's military crackdown on water protest
Sat, Aug 3, 2013, 08:45 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Aug 03, Colombo: Another protester who was injured when the army and police cracked down a protest by the residents of Weliweriya...
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No starting point to resolution by Kumaravadivel Guruparan
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Troops in an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) keep watch near a filling station at Weliweriya, which remained largely deserted following last week’s violent protests over polluted water. One person was...
View ArticleTwo key State institutions adopt diametrically opposed stand on suspected DCD...
*‘Imported milk food safe for consumption’ — Health Ministry* ‘Unsafe as noxious chemical discovered’ — ITIAugust 3, 2013, 8:14 pmBY SURESH PERERAAmidst growing fears of DCD (Dicyandiamide)...
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Govt. looking for scapegoats on Weliweriya protests: JVP
August 3, 2013, 8:16 pmBy Maheen SenanayakeJVP MP Vijitha Herath yesterday rejected government claims that the incidents leading from the Weliweriya protest were politically inspired, with a minister...
View ArticleDipped Products MD rejects pollution accusations
Affirms quality control procedures, follows best practicesAugust 3, 2013, 8:16 pmWith regards to the public unrest concerning the Hayleys Group’s factory in the Weliweriya area, the Managing Director...
View ArticleMissing persons following protest that led to shooting?
August 3, 2013, 8:17 pmThe Bar Council has been receiving complaints of missing people following Thursday’s protests over polluted water at Weliweriya and it was feared that more than one person may...
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Rathupaswela riot and the hostage-taking syndrome
August 3, 2013, 8:11 pmMany reports have been written about how unjustifiable force was used to disperse protestors in Rathupaswela in the Gampaha district who were protesting the contamination of the...
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1983, thirty years on: Teflon Mahinda and Scapegoat Ranil
August 3, 2013, 7:56 pmRajan PhilipsSri Lanka has had many watershed moments in the last hundred years, some quiet and positively consequential, others violent and destabilizing. To the first category...
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Teachers of the Present and the Past
August 3, 2013, 8:03 pmKalayani Dissanayake, a teacher of Sinhala at Royal College, Colombo staged a rooftop protest last week against the transfer of three teachers including herself. She climbed...
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"The law, this violent thing"
dissident memory and democratic futuresAugust 3, 2013, 8:06 pmExcerpted from the Neelan Tiruchelvam memorial lectureby Vasuki NesiahIn 1999 I was studying in America. That summer I returned to...
View ArticlePolice Powers and Land Under 13 A,
A ReviewAugust 3, 2013, 8:08 pmby K. GodageThere has been an intense and animated public debate re the matter of Provincial Councils, and not just that of the Northern Province, exercising police...
View ArticleGamini G. responds to Izeth H.
August 3, 2013, 8:09 pmFollowing is my response to Mr. Izeth Hussain’s reply published in the Sunday Island of 28th July.Reading through Mr. Hussain’s reply I was reminded of the saying by the British...
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Shri Arulmihu Sivasubramaniya Swamy Kovil
August 3, 2013, 8:10 pmThe Theru procession of Arulmini Sivasubramania Swami Kovil, Slave Island paraded the streets carrying the statue of God Skanda on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Hundreds...
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Merrill Fernando looks at moving speciality tea business to India
Alleges harassment by Tea Board officialsAugust 3, 2013, 6:34 pmAccusing Sri Lanka Tea Board officials of "indifference and lethargy," Mr. Merrill J. Fernando, the Founder of Dilmah Tea, last week...
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Harsha de Silva reveals Victoria’s secret
August 3, 2013, 6:42 pmGovernment of J. R. Jayewardene swept to power in 1977. Jayewardene introduced a new constitution, together with a free market economy and a powerful executive presidency...
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Range Rover gets a royal PR boost
August 3, 2013, 6:55 pmPrince William, Duke of Cambridge, leaves the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital in London with his newborn son Sri Lanka’s SML Frontier Automotive, sole agents for Land Rover in...
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Weliweriya and its aftermathAugust 3, 2013, 7:49 pmEconomic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s office sent out an urgent press release on Friday evening titled ``Govt. and Opp. Parties solve...
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Glimpses of JR
Saturday, 03 August 2013 00:43 Not being Mark Anthony nor having anything like Shakespeare’s capability to articulate, it still seems opportune to remember if not a Julius, a Junius,...
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CHOGM BEARING DOWN ON RAJAPAKSA ADMINISTRATION
The Rajapaksa Administration is gearing up to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in November. Last weekend’s news papers carried an interesting comment attributed to President...
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Loss of people’s sovereignty a threat to territorial integrity
Saturday, 03 August 2013 00:36 Significantly, the Magna Carter signed in 1217 heralding the British people’s sovereignty overturned the ruthlessness of King John - this then is common knowledge. Yet,...
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