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Jaffna University teachers boycott SL-UGC ‘academic reconciliation’
[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 June 2013, 06:05 GMT]Jaffna University Teachers’ Association boycotted a ‘national’ level conference on the “Role of Higher Education in Reconciliation” hosted in Jaffna last...
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Veteran Canadian journalist criticizes Harper’s policy on refugees
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 22:46 GMT]Karl Nerenberg, a veteran journalist with over 25 years of experience, came down sharply on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s policy towards...
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Future of Sri Lanka's provincial council system must be decided by the public...
Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 06:58 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 21, Colombo: The provincial council system in Sri Lanka is not a total failure and had provided many benefits, and therefore...
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Sri Lanka uses GPS technology to determine jurisdiction over arrested Indians
Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 09:40 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka for the first time in the history of the judiciary has used the Global Positioning System (GPS)...
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Three-member Presidential commission appointed to investigate Matale mass...
Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 07:24 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 21, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said today that he has appointed a three-member presidential commission...
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Sri Lanka's main opposition calls for Interpol investigation into DIG
Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 11:29 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) has called for an Interpol investigation into DIG Vass...
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Sri Lankan journalist under threat following a TV interview with an extremist...
Thu, Jun 20, 2013, 10:01 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Derana TV journalist Dilka Samanmali has complained to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)...
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Sri Lanka opposition parties ask more time to decide on constitutional...
Thu, Jun 20, 2013, 08:05 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 20, Colombo: A minister in the Sri Lankan government says that the main opposition United National Party (UNP) and the major...
View ArticleHalf a mn trees to be felled to settle defaulted EPF, ETF and gratuity payments
June 20, 2013, 12:00 pmby Maheesha MudugamuwaThe State Resources and Enterprise Development Ministry will fell over half a million commercially valuable trees, on State-owned estates in the hill...
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'Plans to dilute provisions of 13th Amendment unacceptable'- rediff.com
June 20, 2013 13:17 ISTThe Centre on Thursday expressed its unhappiness over reported Sri Lankan plans to dilute key provisions of the 13th Amendment to its constitution and termed the island...
View ArticleStudy favours citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu
An academic study undertaken in refugee camps for Sri Lankan Tamils in the State makes a case for granting them Indian citizenship as a human obligation. Although the State government has been...
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UNP MP Fernado calls for code of ethics for media
... denies having proposed reintroduction of criminal defamationJune 21, 2013, 9:06 pmby Zacki JabbarWhile the government has alleged that the UNP had proposed the reintroduction of Criminal...
View ArticleBritish intelligence lapses exposed
Attack on SL fans at CardiffJune 21, 2013, 9:07 pmRex Clementine Reporting from CardiffLapses in British intelligence and the security services were severely exposed after six supporters of the LTTE...
View ArticleSpeaker announces govt. members of PSC
June 21, 2013, 9:10 pmBy Saman IndrajithSpeaker Chamal Rajapaksa yesterday appointed a Parliamentary Select Committee "to recommend and report on political and constitutional measures to empower the...
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No need for PSC to scrap 13-A - JVP
June 21, 2013, 9:14 pmby Dasun EdirisingheThe JVP yesterday claimed that the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to change the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was not necessary and...
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Gajaman Nona – A colourful personality
June 21, 2013, 7:57 pmBy Andrew ScottGajaman Nona was reputed Sinhala poetess in the south whose work is still read and appreciated by headers of her work throughout the country and it is quite...
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Siemens switchgear developed for India is bringing electricity to consumers...
Photo: Rachit GoswamiAn RMU, or ring main unit, is a switchgear assembly used to distribute power to consumers. Originally developed in Europe for medium- and low-voltage distribution, Siemens's RMU...
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Exclusive: Foreigners raped, pushed into flesh trade as demand for...
According to the police's estimate, Delhi has more than 2,000 foreigners employed as sex workers.Nothing sells like sex and if it is white skin, then the money is even more. For long, young girls from...
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Foundation of Pakistan attacked Mehr F. Husain | Mail Today | New Delhi
Who is to be blamed for Ziarat residency fire? Quaid-e-azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, had a house in the hill station of Ziarat in Balochistan, Pakistan. This wooden house...
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Mahatma & Manuben: Newly discovered diaries of Gandhi's personal attendant...
Mahatma Gandhi with Manuben (Right) and Abha She is one of the most recognised faces in Indian history, always by Mahatma Gandhi's sidas his "walking stick" in his last two years. Yet, she...
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