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Ushering in a new era of purified judiciary?
| by Basil Fernando( April 24, 2013, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Mahinda Rajapaksa was recently quoted as saying that he will take stern action to see that the judiciary will remain...
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Forty found alive after Dhaka building collapse
Rescue efforts had been continuing since the collapse on Wednesday morningForty people have been found alive in a room in the ruins of a building on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, a...
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Boston bombing suspects' mother regrets emigration to US
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva: "America took my kids away from me" The mother of the Boston marathon bombings suspect says she regrets that the family emigrated to the US, more than 10 years ago. At a news...
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Google offers clearer search labels after EU probe
Google's rivals are concerned the concessions may not go far enoughGoogle has agreed to alter its search results in the light of a European investigation into whether it unfairly promoted its own...
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The curious tale of the stolen books
By Martin VennardBBC World Service London's Lambeth Palace, home to the Archbishop of Canterbury, also has a leading historic book collection. The palace's library was the scene of a major crime that...
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Pakistan health workers targeted over Bin Laden death
By M Ilyas KhanBBC News, IslamabadVaccination campaigns were launched near Bin Laden's compound in 2011 Few telephone calls can be as portentous as the one Mumtaz Begum, 35, received on 15 March...
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Call to resolve fate of 461 Sri Lanka death row inmates
By Charles HavilandBBC News, ColomboPrison protests in Sri Lanka have become commonplace in recent months New Sri Lankan prisons chief C Pallegama has said he wants to resolve the status of 461 death...
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Animals Behave Better: SC on Cop Thrashing Girl Protester
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar today drew the ire of the Supreme Court which sought an explanation from him for a senior police officer slapping a young girl protesting rape of a minor, saying...
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Never Leave Your Bat - Boria Majumdar meets the man who first realised...
He’s barely three feet away from the TV screen, sitting on the edge of the bed in a red shirt and shorts following the action in the last Test of the India-Australia series. People kept coming and...
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Pakistan Elections 2013: The View From Afar
POSTED BYOmar ON Apr 25, 2013 AT 23:39 IST , Edited At: Apr 25, 2013 23:39 IST If all goes well, Pakistanis will go to the polls on May 11th to elect a new national assembly and all 4...
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The Letter Bomb - The letter purported to have been written by the promoter...
Saradha group chief Sudipta Sen being taken to the CJM court at Ganderbal, a day after he was arrested from a hotel in Sonamarg.The letter, purported to have been written by the promoter of a...
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You Are Sixteen, We Are Seventeen - The insuperable singing sisters of...
Let him be Lata with Sachin at a function to felicitate himLata MangeshkarPlayback singerSachin calls me Ma, and may I say I am indeed delighted he does so. He is a gem of a person and what I like...
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The continuing Chinese troop intrusion in the western sector of the...
The continuing (since April 15,2013) Chinese troop intrusion ( about 20 troops) 10 kms into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area of Eastern Ladakh in the western sector of the...
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The Woman Who Turned Heads - Hina Rabbani Khar was the toast of the foreign...
She was the toast of the foreign capitals. Hillary Clinton , a presidential ‘nominee’, called her ‘elected’ Pakistani counterpart a ‘tough cookie’. SM Krishna, while stepping down from office, recalled...
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Pampered, the favourite son of the Indian family frequently grows up without basic survival skills. The ramifications can be disastrous Sumana Mukherjee Do you know these people? A regular, urban...
View ArticleBuying a gold coin or a bar and investing in e-gold could give you equal...
If you are interested in investing in precious metals, but are worried about safety, you could invest in e-series. What’s more, through e-series you could even invest in platinum as well as other...
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The natural beauty of the Nilgiri tea estates at Tea Nest - Bijoy Venugopal
Greenery surrounds Tea Nest Half past five on a winter morning is an ungodly hour anywhere, but at 7,350 feet in Ooty, it wraps you in a fiendish embrace. Shivering, despite being accoutred in sweater...
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National Audit Bill gathering dust since 2007
PUCSL chief wants ‘CEB monster’ tamedApril 24, 2013, 12:00 pm By Shamindra Ferdinando The much-touted National Audit Bill has been gathering dust for over six years, while public enterprises are...
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UNP urges urgent introduction of National Audit Bill
April 24, 2013, 10:14 pm UNP National List MP Dr. Harsha de Silva yesterday urged the government to immediately present the draft National Audit Bill to parliament. The economist said that the...
View ArticleIndia disburses Rs 2.28 bn among 15,000 IDPs in Northern Lanka
April 24, 2013, 10:21 pm by S Venkat Narayan Our Special CorrespondentNEW DELHI, April 24: India has so far disbursed SLR 2.28 billion among 15,586 internally displaced beneficiaries in Sri Lanka's...
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