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    President Mahinda & Ahmadinejad

    Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa & Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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    New TV: World's largest 90" 3D LED

    Sharp has revealed the largest available LED HDTV yet, the Aquos LC-90LE745U. According to Sharp, the 90-inch 3D Full HDTV LED TV uses 138 watts of power. Price SL Rs 1.46 million (US$10,999.99).
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    Syria shoots down Turkish fighter jet

    Turkish government said one of its F4 fighter jets was shot down by Syria. Turkish government said they will take the necessary measures. Turkey has a modern military & is a member of NATO. (File photo: Turkish F4 fighter jet)
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    CSE down after S&P report

    Sri Lankan shares fell on Thursday after Standard & Poor's ranked the island nation's banks at "very high risk" in an assessment the central bank said was incorrect and contradictory. The Colombo Stock Exchange's main index lost 0.71 percent, or 35.99 points, to 5,042.07, slipping from its...
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    SL boat capsizes off Christmas Island

    A boat from Sri Lanka carrying around 200 people has capsized off Australia's Christmas Island. West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said about 40 people were spotted on the upturned hull, others were in the water and up to 75 others may be dead. "We have grave fears for the...
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    S&P warns, Central bank rejects warning

    Sri Lanka on Thursday dismissed a warning from the Standard & Poor's rating agency about the island's banks as "factually incorrect, illogically analysed and highly contradictory". The Central Bank of Sri Lanka said it was "gravely concerned" about S&P giving the country an "eight" in its...
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    Import duty increased

    The government has increased import duty on a number of food items. Sugar Rs.10 per kg Potato Rs.30 per kg Garlic Rs.40 per kg Canned fish Rs.85 per kg Onion Rs.25 per kg Big onion Rs.35 per kg Sprat Rs.30 per kg Maldive fish Rs.250 per kg
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    UPFA PS member arrested

    UPFA Bulathsinhala Pradeshiya Sabha member Lakmini Anupama Panditharatne has been arrested by the Colombo Crime Division for aiding a foreign employment scam. Panditharatne (29) stands accused of introducing a suspect called Ranjith Koraleke Govina to a woman, and had promised her...
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    Russia: Iran talks 'tough'

    A senior Russian negotiator on Monday said it was proving hard to reconcile the positions of Iran and the six world powers at talks in Moscow on Tehran's nuclear program. "The main stumbling block is that the sides' positions are rather difficult and tough to reconcile," Russian Deputy...
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    Russia sending two ships to Syria

    Russia is preparing to send two amphibious assault ships to the Syrian port of Tartus where Moscow operates a strategic naval base, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday. "Two major amphibious ships -- The Nikolai Filchenkov and The Tsezar Kunikov -- are preparing to be dispatched to...
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    Protest in Katuwana

    The JVP is holding a massive protest in Katuwana in Hambanthota district today and the crowd is now marching towards the house where the double murder incident took place. Meanwhile, a massive protest will be held in Colombo Fort tomorrow to condemn the attack. Protest s will be held...
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    Lankans suffering due to wrong policy : Harsha

    Sri Lankans are suffering due to wrong economic policy actions especially those involving state interventions in markets that are backfiring, a legislator who has earlier raised red flags about the balance of payments has said. Harsha de Silva, an economist...
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    SL seeking fresh bailout : IMF

    Sri Lanka is seeking fresh help from the International Monetary Fund after drawing down a previous $2.6-billion bailout. John Nelmes, head of an IMF mission to the Indian Ocean country, said Colombo wanted more assistance as it emerges from a decades-long civil war, but declined to say how...
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    කටුවනට යුධ හමුදාව

    කටුවනට යුධ හමුදාව හම්බන්තොට, කටුවන ප්‍රදේ‍ශයේදී ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණු රැස්වීමට එල්ල වූ වෙඩි ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පුද්ගලයින් 22 කුගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කර ප්‍රකාශ සටහන් කරගත් බව පොලිසිය පවසයි. පොලිස් මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක පොලිස් අධිකාරී අජිත් රෝහණ මහතා සදහන් කළේ වෙඩි තැබීමට සම්බන්ධ සැකකරුවන් අත්අඩංගුවට...
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    More officials get duty free vehicles

    The government is offering a bonanza to a large number of senior public and provincial council officials who are entitled for duty free vehicles. The Finance and Planning Ministry in a circular under the signature of Director General P.A. Dias has called for applications from public and PC...
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    2 shot dead at JVP rally

    At least two persons including a female were killed when a group of unidentified men on motorcycles opened fire at a JVP meeting at Katuwana in Hambantota this evening, police spokesman SP Ajith Rohana said. The JVP blamed the incident on a government sponsored armed group led by a person...
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    UK responds to SL government allegations

    Responding to the allegations of the Sri Lankan government who charged that the law enforcement authority in the UK had failed in its duty, spokesman for the British High Commission Sarah Mann said that Britain respects the legitimate right of its citizens to protest. “We respect the...
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    Syria: US ready to attack, Russia sending troops to Syria

    CNN reports the US military is now ready for any type of operation against the Syrian military & the Pentagon is awaiting orders. NBC news is reporting the Russia government is sending a ship with armed Russian troops to guard Russian assets in Syria.
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    Ban Ki-moon tells SL to cooperate with OHCHR

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Sri Lanka to cooperate with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on implementing the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC). The UN Chief has said this in a report submitted to the UN...
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    SLT Peo Tv expansion with UTStarcom

    UTStarcom announced today that it has won a contract from Sri Lanka Telecom to supply set-top boxes for the telecom operator's IPTV system expansion. UTStarcom's set-top boxes, which are part of the Company's RollingStream® end-to-end IPTV solution, will enable SLT to provide a number of...

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