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TODAY'S TOP STORY

 

Doctor in trouble
over jab

* Forcibly injects nurse
* Victim falls sick

Mystery surrounds the action of a doctor, a specialist, attached to the Ratnapura General Hospital. He is alleged to have forcibly administered an injection to a trainee nurse at Ward no.13 on Monday.

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A magnet bomb used by the LTTE was recovered from Mutwal during a search operation. The Army demonstrated how the magnet bomb could be fixed to the undercarriage of a vehicle. Its is a timing device that explodes when the vehicle is in motion.

   NEWS
  • Jaffna census nears completion

    A-follow-up meeting that was designed to review and evaluate the progress of the ongoing population census in the Jaffna peninsula took place last Saturday at Jaffna Security Forces headquarters premises.


  • LTTE cadres  arrested in A’pura

    Anuradhapura Police Monday night arrested two persons, including a woman, at the Anuradhapura Railway station while they were on board a train heading for Colombo.

    FEATURES
  • Sky is the limit
    This is the bane of relations between India and Pakistan. The bureaucracy in Pakistan believes that it serves its interest if it is adamant. India, too, faces a similar problem. Yet being a democracy, with political masters, the situation has never reached a point where the rulers make up their mind to implement a particular policy and fail to do so because of bureaucracy.

  • Beware commercial sharks destroying life

    Have you ever looked at the ingredients in your make up or lotions? Does your moisturizer or lipstick carry the word squalene in the ingredient list? If your answer is yes, then you are partly responsible for destroying the oceans.
    BUSINESS
  • Now, politicians can learn to walk on thin ice
    :Sarath Amunugama
    Ceylinco in US$ 3.3m ice skating building project


    Minister of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotions Sarath Amunugama said that politicians can soon learn to walk on thin ice when Ceylinco Consolidated announced that it would invest US $3.3 million on an 18 floor shopping and apartment complex in Nawala which will the home to Sri Lanka’s first ever ice skating rink.
     

  • Standard Chartered acquires American Express for $823 million

    Standard Chartered PLC today announced it has received all the required approvals leading to the completion of its acquisition of American Express Bank Ltd (AEB) from the American Express Company (AXP). The total cash consideration for the acquisition is US$ 823 million.

    SPORTS
  • Streaker fined, says no hard feelings...

    BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -
    Australia allrounder Andrew Symonds will likely escape any sanction for pummeling a nude streaker with a shoulder charge during a limited-overs international against India.
     
  • Catches turn matches

    HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) - Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood pulled off superb catches to give England a slight advantage over New Zealand on Wednesday after the first day of the first cricket test.

Australia's Andrew Symonds, foreground, puts down a pitch invader during the second final of their tri-nations one-day series against India at Brisbane, on March 4, 2008. The streaker was fined for invading the pitch.



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