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Shock revelation: CEB pays PAYE
tax of blue eyed men
 Controversy
surrounds the inordinate delay in taking disciplinary action
against 21 senior employees of the debt-ridden Ceylon
Electricity Board (CEB) who are alleged to have fraudulently
received payments from the Inland Revenue Department. They have received payments to the tune of Rs
1.3 million over a period of time from the Inland Revenue
Department by falsely claiming that they had been overtaxed
whereas the CEB had paid the PAYE (pay as you earn) tax on their
behalf.
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Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, Air Force Commander Air
Vice Marshal Roshan Gunatilleke and Navy Commander Vice
Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda were present at the Galle
Face Green yesterday to watch rehearsals of the 60th
Independence Day celebrations which falls on February 4,
Monday.
(Photo-
Kamal Wanniarachi)
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Peradeniya nurses continue to defy court order
Only 15 out of over 500 nursing staff reported
for duty yesterday for the 1 pm shift as the strike continued in
defiance of a court order, Peradeniya Teaching Hospital
Directress Dr. Chandra Gunathilake told "The Island"
yesterday.Only the same number has reported for duty, on
Thursday, too, for same shift. Reports from Peradeniya said
patients have started leaving hospital due to lack of nursing
care.
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Sturm und Drang for sixty years
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century,
there emerged in Germany a literary movement called Sturm und
Drang, translated as Storm and Stress. The movement was
initiated by young writers as a counter to the ideals of
rationalism and universalism of the Age of Enlightenment. These
young writers adopted an anti-aristocratic slant and their
literature and theatre were imbued with emotion and spontaneity.
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Debasement of the post of Prime
Minister in Srilanka
Debasement or degradation of the rank of Prime
Minister in Sri Lanka was an unavoidable result of the
installation of the Executive Presidency system on February 4,
1978 with the promulgation of the New Constitution of 1978. It
was a day on which the country achieved Independence and two
days after this Independence Day, Ranasinghe Premadasa who was
appointed Prime Minister lost his independence as ‘Prime
Minister’, virtually dubbed as ‘illustrated peon’, to quote
his own language.
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Wasgomuwa victims to be paid compensation
 Soon
after police ruled out any LTTE involvement in the double murder
of two Wildlife Department employees at Wasgomuwa, Environment
and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said
that the families of the victims would be paid adequate
compensation.Bungalow keeper Samaratunga and Security Guard
Dingiri Banda were killed last Tuesday at the Wasgomuwa National
Park.
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Power sharing key to economic
development
Minister of Export Development and International
Trade G. L. Peiris said that power sharing will be a practical
solution if the country is serious about economic development.He said it made more sense for each area to make
their own decisions politically without having to depend on
Colombo to make all the decisions for them.
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NASCO - a platform for national
recognition
NASCO, the National Sales congress, a concept of
the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM), launched NASCO 2008
at a media briefing held at the Galadari Hotel on Thursday.It is accepted he sales function of any organisation is its life blood, everything else depending on the
revenue generated by sales.
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50
years later, MU survivors recall 1958 Munich air crash
MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Bobby
Charlton recalls the worried silence of his teammates as the
plane roared down the snowy runway for the third time.Kenny Morgans remembers being hurled backwards
into the luggage compartment when the plane hit a fence.Albert Scanlon doesn't recall the crash at all.
When he came to in the hospital, no one told him seven of his
Manchester United teammates were dead.
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Indian
players ordered to behave
The Indian cricket board has told its players to
behave themselves following the row involving Harbhajan Singh,
BBC Sport reported on its website on Thursday. On
Tuesday, Harbhajan had a charge of racially abusing Australia's
Andrew Symonds downgraded to abusive language by the
International Cricket Council.
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