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Members of the clergy representing all major religious denominations and laymen yesterday assembled outside the United Nations (UN) office in Colombo in a silent protest against the proposed US-sponsored resolution at the UNHCR in Geneva. They also handed over a petition signed by people representing all districts of the country to UN officials. (Pic by Saman Ranaweera)

Board of experts to be appointed

Oncology drugs purchases run into a storm: Supplies suffer critical breakdown

Amidst a conflict with the College of Oncologists on the procurement of an Indian drug to treat cancer patients, a comprehensive board of experts comprising oncologists and pharmacologists is expected to be appointed for evaluation and recommendation on government tenders, a high-ranking health official said yesterday.

This unprecedented move comes in the wake of last week’s cancellation of a multi-million rupee tender by the Director-General of...

UNP charges govt. of Internet censorship

The UNP yesterday accused the government of censoring credible news sources available on the internet and demanded that internet service providers unofficially blocking some websites revealed on what official instructions or court order an illegal cens...

Features

Crimea and Geneva:Reverse lessons for the Rajapaksa regime and Diaspora separatism

What is happening in Crimea is what diaspora separatism would love to have happening in Sri Lanka. And Russia is one country that the Rajapaksa regime would be hoping to rely on to prevent northern Jaffna becoming a South Asian Crimea. But what Russia ...

Some observations on the Eelam war

Leisure

THE OLD CITY OF SANA'A

Yemen is the land of Bilkis, the Queen of Sheba and the sites of the cities of the Ads and the Thamuds who were punished by Allah (God) for disobeying Him; as revealed in the Holy Quran. It is a beautiful country with a pleasing climate and rich in nat...

Business

El Nino effect expected to hurt plantation crops this year

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York has forecast an El Nino effect would affect parts of Asia and Australia, a prediction confirmed by the Australian Meteorological Department...

Sports

Aravinda versus Sanga, more on the debate

Following our expansive study last week based purely on numbers as to whether Kumar Sangakkara rates higher than Aravinda de Silva as the best Sri Lankan batsman, several of our readers contributed Letters to Editor arguing for and against the subject....

Sportstar

Sri Lanka’s excellent Asia Cup record continues

At the time of writing, Sri Lanka had not played their last Asia Cup first round match against Bangladesh, but were already in the final. By the time the readers see this, the outcome of the Asia Cup final will be known. Prior to Bangladesh game, Sri L...