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Deputy Inspector General of Police Vass Gunawardena being escorted out of the Colombo Magistrate Court by prison officers yesterday. Pic by Kamal Bogoda
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DIG further remanded
Wife also told to appear in courtsJune 25, 2013, 9:20 pmBy Samantha Illeperuma Former DIG Vass Gunawardena who was remanded for his alleged role in the abduction and killing of a wealthy businessman...
View ArticleTwo Sri Lankan defence officers return home from Wellington
June 25, 2013, 9:23 pmby S Venkat Narayan Our Special CorrespondentNEW DELHI, June 25: Two Sri Lankan defence officers undergoing training at India’s prestigeous Defence Staff Services College (DSSC)...
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UNP opposes dilution of 13-A
Govt. split due to its own folly – TissaJune 25, 2013, 9:24 pmby Zacki JabbarThe UNP said yesterday that it was opposed to the dilution of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution as proposed by the...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ‘bright ideas’
June 25, 2013, 6:00 pmBy Kath NobleMahinda Rajapaksa has had another bright idea. A few weeks ago, he got one of his hangers-on in the ‘public service’ to float a draft code of ethics for journalists,...
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Why the northern province elections are different
June 25, 2013, 6:03 pmBy Nalin de SilvaAs we have argued previously the Indo Lanka Accord is defunct due to the failure of India to fulfill any of the undertakings on her part as stated in the Accord....
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How do we make democracy plural?
June 25, 2013, 6:10 pmBy R.M.B SenanayakeIt is a great relief to know that the UNP if returned to power will not carry on with the present constitution which has been vitiated by the present regime,...
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Launch of the Lakmali Gunawardena’s book
June 25, 2013, 12:00 pmby H.H.Piyasena,Former Interpreter,Parliament of Sri LankaKusumsiri Amarasinha who was fondly called Kusuma, was born on 26th May 1912 in Medaketiya, Tangalle. She was the...
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Time to give mediation a trial
June 25, 2013, 6:45 pmHardly a week passes by without our reading of trade union activity in one sector or another in the Health Dept. H.D.) The HD according to a former C.C.S. officer - they knew...
View ArticleRacism: some questions
June 25, 2013, 6:47 pmSugath Samarasinghe in his letter in the Island of June 20 raises several questions which he sees as arising out of my article "SL Muslim Problem, Sinhala Racists’ Problem, or...
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AppreciationJune 25, 2013, 6:48 pmMost of us retired senior police officers were fortunate and privileged to work with R.R. whose life style many tried to emulate but with little success. He was a...
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Govt. as the OppositionJune 25, 2013, 12:00 pmHaving usurped the powers of other state institutions and rendered them weak and malleable the government is now encroaching on the Opposition turf, if...
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iGATE wins Rs 590 crore contract from US insurer MetLife By ET Bureau
IGate has won a five-year contract worth $100 million (Rs 590 crore) from insurer US insurer MetLife, a rare large deal in a market generally not conducive for mega outsourcing pactsBANGALORE: IGateBSE...
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Topsgrup ropes in NM Rothschild to scout for new investors By Biswarup...
Topsgrup ropes in NM Rothschild to scout for new investorsNEW DELHI: Securities services provider Topsgrup has mandated investment bank NM Rothschild to scout for new investors, a development that...
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Narayana Murthy effect: Infosys plans high salary for top performers By...
Narayana Murthy effect: Infosys plans high salary for top performersAccording to company executives briefed about Murthy's thinking, emphasis on employee performance as a vital differentiator is linked...
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Narendra Modi led rescue efforts in Uttarakhand are not publicity gimmicks ET
Gujarat today has a fighting-fit bureaucracy because it was enabled to develop expertise, team spirit and deliver results under the most adverse circumstancesWhen on Saturday evening, TV channels...
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Google to float helium balloons over rural India for internet connectivity By...
Google will float helium balloons over rural India for Internet connectivity if an experiment testing the concept yields promising results, a senior official of the company said. HYDERABAD: Google will...
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Workers strike at Bajaj plant: Union demands 500 equity shares at Rs 1 apiece...
MUMBAI | PUNE: A strike at Bajaj Auto's Chakan plant in Pune, on since Tuesday, wouldn't have registered much of a blip in the auto industry had it not been for an audacious demand from union leader...
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The Road Not Taken
Posted by Sri Lanka Guardian | by Dayan Jayatilleka “...Sri Lankan foreign policy must be centred on a non-hostile relationship with India...Choice is the essential question; not only the choices open...
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Weak, weak, weak
Posted by Sri Lanka Guardian | by Siobhain McDonagh ( June 25, 2013, Canberra, Sri Lanka Guardian) In 2009, Sri Lanka’s government herded hundreds of thousands of the minority ethnic Tamil community...
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