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Two top US officials to visit S.Asia PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 22:46
Under Secretary of State Maria Otero and Assistant Secretary of State Robert O. Blake are visiting South Asia to meet government leaders, rights activists and civil society representatives
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Four Lankans with fake documents jailed in UK PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 21:32
Three men from Watford and one from Harrow have been jailed for their part in a conspiracy to create false passports and IDs to help them stay in the country...
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Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed resigns PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:49
Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed has resigned after series of opposition led protests with support of some police officers, the Maldivian High Commission said today
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Wimals wife lost and found PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 15:30
Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s wife Shashi who left with a group on Sunday to pay homage to a shrine in the Yala National Park had got lost in the deep jungles...
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COPE gets tough with ministry secretaries PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 14:06
Ministry secretaries who fail to act against institution heads found responsible for irregularities and misappropriations will be reported to Parliament by the parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE).
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Children in primary sector required to learn multiplication up to 12 PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 11:08
Primary sector school children will be required to learn the multiplication charts up to 12 by heart once again under the proposed changes in the education curricular, Education Minister Bandula...
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380,000 children from govt. schools not received school uniforms PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 02:53
Some 380,000 school children attending government schools in the country had still not received their school uniforms and would have to spend their own money on school uniforms if the...
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GNOA to protest on Thursday PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 01:30
The Government Nursing Officers Association (GNOA) will carry out a protest on Thursday outside some 100 hospitals in the country urging the government to address their grievances, failing the union...
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Lankan found dead due to cold weather in Italy PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 06 February 2012 22:44
ROME: Temperatures fell to minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) in Milan on Monday as 59,000 households remained without electricity in Italy and officials declared a gas supply emergency.
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Woman sentenced to death PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 06 February 2012 20:07
A woman was today sentenced to death after she was found guilty of possessing and peddling 40.8 grams of heroin in Borella in 2003, by the Colombo High Court.
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Anoma to lead protest to free SF PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 06 February 2012 17:09
Anoma Fonseka the wife of the jailed former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka says that she will lead a protest to free her husband on the 8th of February. The protest...
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Maldives' VP Hassan takes oath as president PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 20:47
Vice president Mohammed Waheed Hassan has taken an oath to be Maldives president after his predecessor Mohamed Nasheed resigned after weeks of protests
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Ten hand grenades found near Hulftsdorp PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:37
Ten hand grenades have been recovered near the Hulftsdorp Court Complex in Keselwatta a short while ago, the police said
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More time needed to plan Town and Country Planning Bill PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 15:12
The Central Provincial Council had wanted more time to discuss the proposed Town and Country Planning Ordinance Amendment Bill and had failed to approve it sources from the provincial council...
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Six murders, two suicides in past two month in Jaffna due to military presence: Udul PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 11:59
The ‘We are Sri Lankans' organisation yesterday charged that there had been six murders and two suicides in the Jaffna district in the past two months allegedly owing to the...
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Meeting with representatives of political parties to be held PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 05:38
Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya will have a meeting with the representatives of political parties tomorrow to decide on the elections to the two remaining local government bodies in the Northern...
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SL to market Ayurveda drugs PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 02:09
Sri Lanka is to enter the global medicinal drugs market by producing Ayurvedic drugs to international standards, Sri Lanka Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation (ADC) Chairman Somaweera Chandrasiri said.
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CID probing double murder in Kahawatta PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 01:03
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has taken over the investigation to probe the killing of a mother and daughter in the Opatha area in Kahawatta.
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540 fined for exceeding speed limit on E01 PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 06 February 2012 22:04
The Southern Expressway Traffic Division has fined 540 individuals mainly for exceeding speed above 100 kilometres per hour.
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He won’t apologies: Anoma PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 06 February 2012 18:14
Talks with the government to release Sarath Fonseka have been positive but he won’t apologies, Anoma Fonseka sys.
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Hirunika says no to active politics yet PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 06 February 2012 15:38
Hirunika Premachandra the daughter of Baratha Lakshman Premachandra speaking exclusively to the Daily Mirror said that she hasn't joined active politics as portrayed in the media. “There is a big...
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