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The TNA’s dilemmaMay 31, 2013, 7:58 pmThe Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has taken exception to the UNP’s commitment to Sri Lanka’s unitary status as reiterated in its draft proposal for a new...
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Atop Mount Everest: A Climber's Account of Scaling the Highest Peak by Gautam...
Image: Brad Clement / Spindrift FilmA climber at 24,000 feet, on the Lhotse face with South Col and the Everest summit in the background2006, Everest, NepalSunlight streamed into my tent. I was...
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Cheniere Energy's War with Chemical Companies Over Natural Gas by Christopher...
SHIPPING NEWS Tanks and pipelines at Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG facility should be ready for gas soonI f you want to see what the natural gas revolution in America has wrought, there’s no...
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Food in AC coaches may get costlier By Dipak Kumar Dash, TNN / ET
The overall price increase would be higher for passengers travelling in AC-II , III and chair car categories, but would be the least for AC-I NEW DELHI: A Railway Board panel has proposed an increase...
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Green energy: Lakshadweep to generate electricity from coconut leaves, stem,...
In what is likely a global first, inhabitants of 11 Lakshadweep islands have decided to stop using diesel and turn to coconuts for meeting their frugal power needs. KOLKATA: In what is likely a global...
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Hotel chains Holiday Inn, Marriott, Lemon Tree shun bathtubs on water...
NEW DELHI: If you are a bubble bath lover, then before you book your room in a star hotel just make sure they still have the bathtub, because many hotel companies are doing away with the bathtub in...
View ArticleMaavai questions credentials of Natchiappan meet
[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 June 2013, 23:10 GMT]TNA parliamentarian and ITAK General Secretary Mr. Maavai Senathirajah, on Thursday, questioned the credentials of the New Delhi meet of ‘Sri Lankan Tamil...
View ArticleSL military intelligence backs Buddhist extremist move in Batticaloa
[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 June 2013, 22:25 GMT]The threatening act of Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives, who took close-up photographs of the Tamil protestors against the construction of...
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Visiting Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra participating in a religious ceremony at the Deepaduttarama Viharaya in Kotahena yesterday morning. (Pic by Sajith Jayasekera)
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Sino - Lanka relations now a "Strategic Cooperation Partnership'' says GL
Free Trade Agreement in the pipelineJune 1, 2013, 6:32 pmExternal Affairs Minister G.L. Pieris yesterday described President Mahinda Rajapaksa's State visit to China as the most successful ever that...
View ArticleCommon candidate? Ex-CJ willing to make "any sacrifice’’
June 1, 2013, 6:38 pmImpeached Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake has hinted that she may enter politics to support the cause of a ``just society where the rule of law reigns.’’In an interview with...
View ArticleEastern Provincial Council in crisis: Members boycott sessions
June 1, 2013, 6:37 pmBy Franklin R. SatyapalanThe Eastern Provincial Council (EPC) has run into a crisis with 20 members of the ruling party (UPFA), including the four Ministers, boycotting sessions...
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Sri Lanka supplied 90% of world cinnamon demand but now faces production...
June 1, 2013, 5:54 pmBy Steve A. MorrellMinister of Minor Export Crop Promotion Reginald Cooray said the cinnamon Iindustry was perhaps the oldest export crop Sri Lanka has been reputed for. But,...
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Buddhist fanatics on the streets
June 1, 2013, 7:02 pmIf one asks the present columnist what Sri Lanka’s biggest problem at this moment is, we will have to say it’s not the Western encirclement of Sri Lanka nor is it the holding of...
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The UNP goes round the bend
June 1, 2013, 7:03 pmThe UNP’s draft constitution released last week clearly shows that the grand old party has completely lost its grasp of reality. Even when the UNP was voted into power in 2001,...
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Banking on Rural Debt
June 1, 2013, 12:00 pmBy AhilanKadirgamarHousehold debt has been increasing exponentially, and at the heart of the problem are state policies and banking. A glance through the recent annual reports of...
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Can Gota remain Defence Secretary?
Making sense of UPFA contradictionsJune 1, 2013, 5:09 pmKumar DavidThe range and variety of contradictions that have opened up in the last two months is startling; they began to coming into the open...
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Can we not wipe the ‘slate’ clean and start a new Spring?
June 1, 2013, 5:16 pmBy Gnana MoonesingheSpring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people starearranging and changing placing...
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Amala Wadugodapitiya Dissanayake
June 1, 2013, 5:30 pmAmala’s endearing voice, her golden brown hair, smiling blue/grey eyes, the distinctive style of walk almost dancing on her toes - looking ethereal, are memories of our dear...
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13th Amendment: valid any more?
June 1, 2013, 5:32 pmby Gamini Gunawardane(A paper read at the 12th Annual Conference on Sri Lankan Studies) This paper seeks to examine the question of legitimacy of the 13th Amendment to the Sri...
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