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Finding diamonds on the beach, together
Julie Woods-Moss Julie Woods-Moss, CMO, Tata Communications, on working with colleagues and customersJulie Woods-Moss, Chief Marketing Officer at Tata Communications, graduated with honours as a...
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KYC norms unlikely to depress gold demand, says Kalyan Jewellers’ chief Our...
T. S. Kalyanaraman , Chairman, Kalyan Jewellers. Mumbai, Mar 17: The new Government regulation to make KYC (know your customer) norms mandatory for the purchase of gold worth Rs 50,000 is unlikely...
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Lanka faces growing call for international probe
US toughens resolution, approval virtually certain with India also supporting itDirect and indirect diplomatic moves fail; attack on Pillay provokes angry responseBy Our Political Editor Last Monday, a...
View ArticleEditorial-CHOGM: Come or get lost
With its focus on the fallout from the ongoing Geneva meeting of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Government, which is straining every sinew to hold the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government...
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The bitter fruits of our own folly
As family members of a murdered ruling party politician travelled to Geneva this week to lay their case for denial of justice before the United Nations Human Rights Council, the ironies are palpable,...
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Delhi, Geneva And The Hambantota Commonwealth
By Tisaranee Gunasekara“Whatever is that distant rumble that I dimly hear?” Christopher Hitchens (Arguably: Essays)It is now a virtual certainty. Barring some last-second, utterly unforeseeable,...
View ArticleRapporteur Refused Entry
By Easwaran RutnamThe government has refused to accede to a request by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, to visit...
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Govt Not Committed To Resolve Conflict – Sampanthan
International community can help people if govt fails to deliverBy Mandana Ismail AbeywickremaTNA Leader R. Sampanthan says the government seems determined to imprint upon the Tamil community the...
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It’s About Practical Politics
By N. Sathiya MoorthyThe Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa could not have asked for more. The Opposition UNP’s offer to work with the government on the issues and problems flowing from the...
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Sri Lanka’s Special Human Rights envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe being congratulated by some delegates, attending the ongoing 22nd sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on...
View ArticleGoSL rejects joint resolution, stage set for Geneva vote
Move intended to expose hypocritesMarch 17, 2013, 9:39 pmBy Shamindra FerdinandoSri Lanka’s refusal to move a joint resolution on accountability issues, at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights...
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Sri Lankan Buddhist monk assaulted
Tamil outfits target archaeology students in ThanjavurMarch 17, 2013, 9:40 pmMembers of a Tamil outfit surround Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Pathberiye Gnanaloka Thera at the big temple in Thanjavur on...
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SF’s unfinished war–A response
March 17, 2013, 7:40 pmAlthough your editorial under the above caption made interesting reading, the title was not apt. The ex-General never fought a war. He tried to complete a...
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Passekudah to be our nudist beach?
March 17, 2013, 7:41 pmThis refers to an article by Bandu de Silva in The Island newspaper dated 7/3. Over 30 years ago I already wrote an article about nudism on the beaches. I am not aware of such...
View ArticleSubramaniam Dharmarajeswaran
Appreciation:March 17, 2013, 7:42 pmWith the absorption of the Jaffna Co-operative Provincial Bank Ltd by the Peoples Bank in 1971, Mr S. Dharmarajeswaran became a People’s Bank staff member where a...
View ArticleSri Lankan Muslims in the racist paradigm
March 17, 2013, 7:31 pmBy Izeth HussainIt is questionable whether there are today any purely internal problems, serious internal problems, without any external dimension to them at all. It is true that...
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The real loser in GenevaMarch 17, 2013, 7:31 pmMinister Mahinda Samarasinghe, who is currently in Geneva to defend Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has asked why the...
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The sweet sound of success
By Stephen EvansBBC, SaxonyThe musical instrument-making industry in a small town in Germany is still going strong after 400 years, reports the BBC's Stephen Evans.It is an amazing story of survival -...
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India-Italy marines row: 'No legal immunity' for envoy Daniele Mancini
Ambassador Daniele Mancini had given his personal assurance that the marines would return on timeIndia's Supreme Court has said Italy's envoy does not have legal immunity, in an escalating row over...
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Airbus wins record order for 234 planes from Indonesia's Lion
Lion's record order for Airbus craft tops a previous record order for Boeing planesThe European-owned planemaker Airbus has won a record order for 234 planes worth 18.4bn euros (£15.7bn, $24bn) from...
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