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Basil seeks two-thirds majority for new Constitution
SLPP National Organiser, Basil Rajapaksa urged the people to...
The infighting between the two UNP factions has taken a new turn where the UNP and  the SJB are clashing with each other over the petty issue of the  party colour, ‘green’. The issue has turned into a  type of legal battle as UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam made a written complaint to the Election Commission against  the SJB for using the UNP’s official...
12 July, 2020
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Drug busters taken into custody
Drug smuggling ring
PNB officers in more criminal activities
* More information on ill-gotten gains revealed, * Suspects in contact with international drug traffickers
The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) and its officers have been under severe public scrutiny during the past weeks after it was revealed that a group of its officers had allegedly profited by reselling drugs seized by the agency to drug dealers. While 18 officers of the PNB believed to have been involved in the racket have now been arrested, more information about their ill-...
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Fishermen survive ordeal in deep sea
Thirty-seven-year-old Dinesh Janaka Kumara had given up hope when they saw a ship sailing in their direction. With fellow fishermen, he did what any man hanging on the keel of a capsised boat would do- shouted out for help. He wished the crew of the ship will see them. Kumara, a father of three from Matara, left for fishing with five others on June 26. The fisherman who...
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A second wave?
Sri Lanka is in dire need of re-addressing the basics of preventing Covid-19, the General Secretary of the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) Dr Haritha Aluthge told the media last week. The medical officer said that if the basics in the anti-Covid-19 battle such as keeping one-metre distance, washing hands frequently and wearing face masks were strictly...
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Managing media on the road to Nanthikadal
Part 111
While all journalists were not given free access to the battle zone, and Western journalists hugely resented this constraint, a lesson had been learned from the US invasion of Iraq, with force contributions from the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland. As was done during the Iraq invasion, (“At the start of the war, the shock and awe phase in March 2003, 775 reporters...
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