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Tiger blows himself
up in Mutwal to
escape arrest
Seven injured
Seven persons, including three Police
personnel, were injured when a suicide bomber blew
himself up in a three-storey building at Mutwal as a
joint Army and Police search team closed in on him
yesterday morning. A Police sergeant, and a Woman Police
Constable injured in the blast were said to be in
critical condition, at the National Hospital.
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The ruins of the house in
which a suicide bomber blew himself up at dawn yesterday
to escape arrest. He was occupying a room in the three-storeyed
building and blew himself, injuring seven persons,
including three police personnel, when police tapped at
his door during a search operation at Aluthmawatha Road
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JVPers ready to sacrifice lives
to fight foreign intervention
The JVP on Thursday claimed that it was a party
which had a history of opposing foreign intervention in the
country’s affairs and its members were prepared to even
sacrifice their lives to prevent future attempts by foreign
governments to poke their noses into Sri Lanka’s affairs.
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Thugs visit Rupavahini chief
photographer
Four suspicious characters had visited the Kotte
residence of Piyal Ranjith, Chief Photographer of the Rupavahini
Corporation News Room, on Thursday evening and begun
interrogating him. When Piyal alerted his neighbours the four
men had escaped in their three wheeler .
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Technical education and its
advantages
Text of a speech delivered by Prof. Wiswa
Warnapala, Minister of Higher Education at the ceremony held for
the purpose of handing over letters of appointment to 25
Assistant Lecturers of the SLIATE on 15th February, 2008.
It has so happene -
Poverty focussed develo pment and microfinance:
Policies and prospects - Part II
 Linkage
between Actions in Policies for the Development and
Microfinance. Poverty reduction in the most backward
regions has been given high priority in the current
policy framework. Microfinance has also been
identified as an important tool to fight the poverty
in the country and as such the government intends to
promote poverty focused sustainable....
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Colombo, model of a tea hub in
global tea industry
 The Tea Export Trade celebrated a landmark
achievement in breaching the elusive US.$.1 Billion Value
Barrier in the year 2007, for the first time in its 140 year
history.
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OPA proposes amendments to Bribery
Law
The disappointment exercised by the OPA on
numerous occasions over the luke warm attitude shown by both the
government and the opposition parties audits attempts to discuss
ways and means to minimize Bribery and Corruption has almost
fallen on deaf ears.
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A Guard of Honour for Murali
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rarely do you see a guard of honour for a sportsman,
especially in cricket, where the run of play has
denied even the best of batsmen and bowlers one. But
on Friday, at the MCG, there were three guards of
honour for some of the all time greats of cricket.
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Jayasuriya seals a thriller for
Lankans
 Following
a disastrous Commonwealth Bank series, with nothing to lose, the
Sri Lankans came up with a stunning fight back wining their last
preliminary round game, a dead rubber, against world champions
Australia in a thrilling fashion here at the Melbourne Cricket
ground by just 13 runs yesterday.
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