Elections chief to announce nominations date for PC poll on Friday
July 6, 2013, 7:47 pmBy Franklin R. SatyapalanWith Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya expected to announce the date for nominations to the polls to the Northern, North-Western and Central...
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Rajapaksa regime bows to India and world community
By Our Political EditorView(s): 4871Any changes to 13th Amendment put off until at least next year while nationalist forces breathe fireMinister’s plan to cut 70,000 trees grounded, but Hakeem...
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Smartphone becomes in-car head-up display
The device can project information onto a transparent film attached to the windshield Sat-nav firm Garmin has made a portable head-up display (HUD) for cars that projects turn-by-turn directions on...
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Christmas Island: In search of Britain's nuclear legacy
By John PickfordBBC News, KiritimatiIn 1957, the British military began conducting nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean and based themselves on Christmas Island. The tests ended six years later and...
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Tunisia and Libya divided over Morsi ousting
By Rana JawadBBC News, CairoLibyan protesters have rallied against the Muslim Brotherhood in recent months People in northern Africa are conflicted over what to make of recent events and the turmoil...
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Is 2013's Chinese Dream like the 1960s American Dream?
New graduates speak about their middle class aspirations and chasing the 'Chinese dream'. With a cash crunch and signs of an economic slowdown, will there be enough good jobs for the record seven...
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The rise and fall of Madurai’s Granite Mafia --tehelka.com Jeemon Jacob
The two-decade long reign of the mining barons in the region has come to an abrupt end, after a former district collector’s letter to the chief minister was leaked to the media, reports Jeemon...
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Milagu Kuzhambu (Pepper Corn gravy or Black pepper curry) -chettinad receipe
Chettinad cuisine is incomplete without black pepper. In olden days food was medicine and medicine was food. Those days people knew remedy for the different ailments from the items in the kitchen...
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Vendakkai Pachadi (ladies finger or okra gravy) chettinad receipe
Ladies finger, as we all know is very good for memory power. I have often heard people telling that they will take ladies finger on the day of the math exam. I am not sure of any scientific reason...
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India’s Uninformed Stand and SL’s Secret Weapon
July 6, 2013, 7:25 pmLast Friday, Minister Basil Rajapaksa was in India in a situation no less crucial than the one in which he left for India in October 2008 when the war was reaching its peak. This...
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UNP to keep away from PSC until Ranil’s conditions are met
– KiriellaJuly 6, 2013, 7:49 pmBy Franklin R. SatyapalanSenior Kandy district UNP parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella said yesterday that the party has decided to refrain from participating in the...
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Timely Intervention That Rescued a Precious Heritage
July 6, 2013, 5:21 pmA Retrospective Exhibition of Tilak Samarawickrema Tapestries Produced by the Weavers of Talagune, Uda-DumbaraLionel Wendt Art Gallery,Open to the public 12th July through 14th...
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Is there an ethnic problem in Sri Lanka?
July 6, 2013, 7:27 pmGnana MoonesingheThis is a mind boggling poser. If the question whether there is an ethnic problem in Sri Lanka is posed to the minorities and sections of the majority, the...
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TNA and SLMC must respond to absurd lies
Extremist anti-13A propaganda is pernicious and falseJuly 6, 2013, 7:28 pmby Kumar DavidThe country is plastered with what anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows to be cant; absurd untruths....
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Smoke and mirror tricks will not succeed
UNP Statement on the Moody’s Rating Downgrade and the 2013 Mid-Year Fiscal Position ReportJuly 6, 2013, 7:13 pmHarsha de Silva, ph.d. Member of Parliament and Consultant EconomistBy Harsha de Silva,...
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Election seasonJuly 6, 2013, 7:26 pmFriday’s presidential proclamation of the Northern Provincial Council election and the premature dissolution of the Central and North Western Provincial Councils,...
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Yahoo shuts down Internet relic AltaVista - AP/ET
Eclipsed by Google in the early 2000s, AltaVista's star had already faded by the time Yahoo acquired it as part of its $1.7 bn purchase of Overture Services. NEW YORK: Once up on a time, there was a...
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American Sikhs fight for the right to keep turban on duty By New York Times/ET
American Sikhs are waging a campaign to get the US Army to grant them a special exception - to wear their turbans while serving.By James Dao The Sikhs of India have for centuries cherished their rich...
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Snowden must not be allowed further travel: White House By PTI
Snowden first flew to Hong Kong and then to Moscow, where he is stranded now as the US has withdrawn his passport in the absence of which he can't travel further. WASHINGTON: Fugitive ex-CIA operative...
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RIL chief Mukesh Ambani joins M&M boss to back India’s 1st genre-specific...
After Anand Mahindra, it’s the turn of Mukesh Ambani to once again turn a venture capitalist and back a new media venture due to go on air mid-August. MUMBAI: After Anand Mahindra, it's the turn of...
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