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New criterion for next Cabinet
When selecting the next Cabinet, President Mahinda
Rajapaksa will be giving top consideration to
efficiency, past track record and honesty, while the
number of Cabinet ministers will be restricted to
between 35 and 40, a highly placed source said.
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Dengue to reach peak with rains
With the number of dengue cases reported in the first
two and half months of the year has reached 9,655 with
60 patients reported dead, the health authorities warned
that this year will record the worst number of cases
with monsoons expected...
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TOUGHER MATCH AT HAND |
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have a tougher match on our hands’ seems
to be what Ravi Karunanayake, hand
outstretched, is saying to his UNP party
leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe in the
thick of the jollity of it all at the
131st Royal-Thomian ‘Big Match’ at the
SSC which drew the two old Royalists
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Parvathi seeks visa to Canada
Vallipuram Parvathi (80), mother of the deceased
LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, is seeking a
visa to move to Canada, according to former Jaffna
District TNA Member of Parliament, M.K.
Sivajilingam.
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Tourist hotel management training for North
With the idea of
providing jobs for the youth of the areas and
gaining much needed foreign exchange, Jaffna and
Vavuniya have been selected as venues to set up
branches of Sri Lanka Tourist Hotel Management
Institute, said its Director General Suranga Silva.
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President chief guest at 125th anniversary of Buddhist Flag
The President will be the chief guest at the
commemoration ceremony on April 28, which will usher
in the 125th anniversary of the Buddhist Flag, and
distribute prizes and certificates to the winners of
the related essay and arts competition.
The Ministry of Religious and Moral Advancement is
organising the all-island essay and art competition
for pirivenas and schools. Originals and strictly
own creations with entries not displayed at previous
competitions will be entertained.
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17 SL fishermen arrested in Indian waters
Sri Lankan fishermen venturing into Indian waters
were apprehended by the Marine Police.
Seventeen Sri Lankan fishermen were arrested for
traversing the Indian territorial waters near
Nachugunta in Nagayyalanka Mandal of Krishna
District late last night.
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Lankan refugee attempts suicide in Chennai
Shantidevi (name
changed), a Sri Lankan refugee, committed
self-immolation after an SI allegedly outraged her
modesty inside the Police station in Karur, Chennai
on March 7.
She is battling for her life in a government
hospital. The 27-year-old was staying in a refugee
camp near Chennai.
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Rubella vaccine to resume soon
The Health Ministry is to resume the rubella
vaccination programme soon, as the technical
committee report that looked into the deaths of two
school children following the administration of the
vaccination suggested that the quality of the
vaccination is satisfactory.
A highly placed official at the Ministry confirmed
that the technical committee report has been handed
over to the Minister of Health, Nimal Siripala de
Silva who had in turn handed it over to the Acting
Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayatileka for further review.
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Some have already forgotten the General – Anoma
Wife of Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader
General Sarath Fonseka says that some of the
political parties who were backing General Fonseka
seem to have forgotten him at present while the UNP
says they cannot hold any protests on his behalf
because he is contesting from a different party.
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General election
with a specific target
Almost
imperceptibly, the general election campaign has
shifted from a contest between the ruling party and
the opposition, and from being a contest on
political, social and economic issues, to a rather
peripheral issue: A race for a two-thirds majority
in This issue was first brought to the fore by none
other than President Mahinda Rajapaksa himself, who,
during the latter stages of the presidential
election campaign, hinted that this general election
would be the last with a battle for the ‘manaapa’ or
preference vote.
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Home and home battles mar
electioneering
Despite
the parliamentary general election scheduled for April 8
only 25 days away, the major political parties in the fray
have so far confined their electioneering to media
briefings, whistle stops and house-to-house canvassing. The
UNP, as a prelude to their propaganda campaign proper, is
holding the meetings of the party’s district organisations
presided over by the party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The ruling UPFA has planned to hold their major
propaganda rallies with President Mahinda Rajapaksa in
the chair, beginning this week, SLFP General Secretary
Maitripala Sirisena said.
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Candidates observe it in the breach
With less than a month to go for the forthcoming
general elections which record an unprecedented
number of candidates in the country’s election
history, the debate on the effectiveness of the
election laws too has become prominent in the
political arena.
The general public as well as interested parties raised
their eyebrows on exorbitant amounts of money spent on
election campaigns by the candidates. With new
developments taking place in its path to democracy in
the post-war era, focus is highly levelled at
transparency and clarity of its law makers.
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Time to curb big bullies in international politics
In a telephone conversation between President
Mahinda Rajapaksa and the United Nations Secretary
General (UNSG) Ban Ki-moon, the President has pointed
out that the intention of the Ban Ki-moon to appoint a
panel of experts to advice him (i.e. the SG) on Sri
Lanka is totally uncalled for and unwarranted. He said
it was both unprecedented and unwarranted as no such
action had been taken about other states with continuing
armed conflicts on a large scale, involving major
humanitarian catastrophes and...
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Rambukwella steals the limelight
Ramith Rambukwella scored a hurricane 165 off 148
balls to give a dream shattered Royal College some
consolation in their drawn 131st Battle of the Blues
cricket encounter against S. Thomas’ College at the
SSC grounds yesterday.
The big-made Royalist reached his century at a pace of
run-a-ball and scored the next 65 runs off only 48
deliveries.
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Ekanayake shines in drawn game
Madhushanka Ekanayake’s superb all-round
performance for Rahula was the highlight of the 7th
Battle of Two Cities annual cricket encounter
against St. Aloysius which ended in a draw at the
Galle International Stadium yesterday. Both days of
the encounter were delayed due to bad weather and
the match eventually turned out to be a low scoring
affair.
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Tissera - a leader by example
Michael Tissera played cricket in an era when it was
more of a gentleman’s game. The manner in which
Tissera conducted himself on and off the field
personified the qualities that were associated with
the sport at the time. He is today a glowing example
of a cricketer unspoilt by his success in cricket
and in personal life. He has been a dominant figure
in Sri Lankan cricket for more than 40 years,
serving the team as a player, administrator,
chairman of selectors and manager.
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T20, IPL and match-fixing
(Point Blank)
Match-fixing at cricket has reared its ugly head again
with two of Pakistan’s leading cricketers Kamran Akmal
and Rana Naved being accused of underperforming during
Pakistan’s disastrous tour of Australia where they
failed to win a single match in all three formats –
Test, ODI and Twenty20. With the present security
situation in their country not conducive for
international tours to take place, the least Pakistan
should have done is to raise their standard of
cricket...
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INTERVIEWS |
“Circumstances forced
me into politics” – Anoma
 Anoma
Fonseka, who is running the election campaign for former
Army Commander turned politician General Sarath Fonseka,
says she believes in incomparable strength a woman has in
winning obstacles thrown at her in life and confident that
her husband’s party, Democratic National Front, will
demonstrate a fair show in the forthcoming general elect The
opposition alliance formed during the presidential
election was strong enough to pose some kind of a threat
to incumbent President Mahinda Rakjapaksa at that time.
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