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Pilots Cry Foul On Unfair Business
by Nirmala Kannangara The Airline Pilots Guild of Sri Lanka (APGSL) will take stern action against the management of SriLankan Airlines if they fail to accord them the use of business class lounge...
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At The Butt End Of An Excise Scam
National coffers losing millions as tobacco giants evade paying rightful duty by Nirmala Kannangara Ceylon Tobacco Company Building The government’s failure to introduce a system to collect excise...
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Waiting For The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Coal supply tender By Ifham Nizam Lakvijaya-Norchcholai Power Plant Attorney General, President’s Counsel Jayantha Jayasuriya has advised the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy that if steps were...
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No AG Power Shift Sans Constitution Change
by Nirmala Kannangara Auditor General’s Department Unless the Constitution is amended, the government’s plan to give audit powers to a three-member Audit Commission is invalid, says a senior high...
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Whodunnit Drama Continues At Police Hospital
Who is preventing the CID’s recommendation from being implemented? by Nirmala Kannangara Police Hospital, Narahenpita Following the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) investigation into repeated...
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A Costly Resettlement
Ministry of Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation and Resettlement denies vacant claims by Hafsa Sabry Minister of Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation and Resettlement D. M. Swaminathan The Ministry of Prison...
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Muslims Make Push For Separate PC
by Easwaran Rutnam Hassan Ali Muslims are maintaining the push for a separate Muslim Provincial Council (PC) as the Constitutional Assembly discusses a new Constitution for the country. The Sri Lanka...
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And Then ‘They’ Came For Him
Army’s top spy accused at identity parade 2 IGPs, 3 DIGs interrogated for complicity in Editor’s murder Wickrematunge lends clues in “letter from the grave” CID evasive on questions of means and...
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No Sugar Shortage, Assures CAA
Cocaine seizure causes concern, but by Hafsa Sabry Largest haul of cocaine ever to be taken into custody, which was concealed in a consignment of sugar, being inspected by President Maithripala...
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Land Acquisition In The North Creates A Stir
by Easwaran Rutnam Soldiers patrolling the North during the war An attempt to acquire private land in the North has created a stir with Tamils in the area raising strong objections and accusing the...
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Muttur Siege Reflecting Ten Years On
by Amjad Mohamed-Saleem Muttur was on the front line of the conflict, given its location in the Trincomalee district Ten years is a significant milestone: A decade; a generation. A lot can happen in...
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Mackwoods Saga Rages On
SEC waiting for outcome of legal action Claims Of Monies Sent Abroad To Unrelated Company by Jay Rathnaweera Mackwoods building The sale of Agalawatta Plantations PLC by Mackwoods Plantations Pvt....
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Controversy Lingers On Hambantota Port And Mattala Airport
byAshanthi Warunasuriya Mattala Airport Although several massive development projects were initiated under the previous regime, most of these projects made a new turn after the presidential election....
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A New Chapter Or Another Empty Promise?
Office on Missing Persons by Bhavani Fonseka Protests demanding an Office on Missing Persons in North Agust 11, 2016 was an important day for the victims of past abuses in Sri Lanka. This was when Sri...
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Businessman’s Murder Sends Shockwaves
by Ashanthi Warunasuriya Location in Mawanella, where Sulaiman’s body was found The murder of millionaire businessman Mohammed Sakeem Sulaiman last week sent shockwaves in Colombo, raising fears of...
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‘Helping Hambantota’ Appeal To A Fuller Bench
by Vimukthi Yapa Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa The eleventh anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami came and went on December 26 last year with hardly a...
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Vehicle Permits For MPs Grossly Abused
by Hafsa Sabry MP Wimal Weerawansa Tax-free vehicle permits given to Parliamentarians have allegedly been misused violating the regulations of the Motor Traffic Act as the vehicles were registered...
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Families Of Missing Want Independent Mechanism
National Delegates’ Conference of Affected Families Over 200 family members of persons gone missing due to enforced disappearance from different parts of the country, who assembled as the ‘National...
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Preventing A Repeat Of Golden Key Debacle
CBSL committed to ensuring financial system stability by Santhush Fernando Many investors feel that the Central Bank has not been alert Despite a former Ceylinco subsidiary and one of Sri Lanka’s...
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Rajapaksa Era Ghosts Continue Deadly Haunt
Fingara Town and Country Club scandal by Wiraj Silva Although many believe that Rajapaksa era ghosts are said to have been exorcized, citizens know otherwise. Many institutions both public and private...
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