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Adverts remind Indians daughters bring joy .
Saturday, 1 October 2011 - 1:11 PM SL Time
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NEW DELHI: Full-page colour advertisements in leading newspapers reminded Indians on Friday that daughters bring joy to life in a campaign designed to tackle the country`s worsening gender imbalance.
Sex-selective abortions and female infanticide have left India with 914 girls for every 1,000 boys, its lowest since independence in 1947 and far below the global average of 1,050 girls for every 1,000 boys, census data shows.
They fill our lives with smiles. They are capable of doing everything, stated the adverts by the central state of Madhya Pradesh, featuring a photoshopped picture of the chief minister appearing to hold a girl.
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How to win business in Libya...
Monday, 3 October 2011 - 3:14 PM SL Time
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) Sept 23 - In August, as rebels fought forces loyal to President Muammar Gaddafi, two representatives of a British business consortium took a `rather long and arduous ferry journey from Malta` to the North African country.
`To describe it as a ferry would be very polite,` according to an executive at a London-based global engineering company, whose interests the two men represented. `I think it was a trawler.`
The men travelled to Libya at the invitation of the rebel administration. Britain, along with France and the United States, had given political and military support for the uprising against Gaddafi and sponsored the rebel leadership, the National Transitional Council (NTC). This was a chance to close some deals.
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Sri Lanka to monitor foreigners electronically
Tuesday, 4 October 2011 - 6:25 PM SL Time
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Oct 04, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is developing a system to track and monitor foreign nationals as they enter and travel around the country, after a new online travel approval system is fully operational, an official said.
Sri Lanka is starting at electronic travel authorization program at 50 dollars a person for a 30-day stay with double entry from January 01. It would scrap free visa-on-arrival to 78 countries.
Controller general of Sri Lanka`s immigration office, Chulananda Perera told reporters at a recent media briefing that the state also planned to monitor and track foreigners as they went around the country.
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Sri Lanka buys MA 60 China passenger planes
Wednesday, 5 October 2011 - 1:59 PM SL Time
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Oct 03 (Reuters) China has delivered two passenger planes to boost Sri Lanka`s post-war aviation industry, the island`s air force said on Monday, as the South Asian nation seeks non-Western sources of financial assistance amid Western-led allegations of war crimes.
Since the end of the war with Tamil Tigers separatists in May 2009,Russia, China and India have increased cooperation with Sri Lanka and are among its biggest benefactors in terms of global political capital.
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Lanka to send HR action Plan to UN
Thursday, 6 October 2011 - 7:36 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka will send the National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Navi Pillay, Special Envoy of the President on Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe said yesterday. The implementation of the Action Plan is said to begin immediately.
Samarasinghe stated that the progress on the implementation of the Action Plan would be presented at the next UN Human Rights Council in March next year. Additionally the Action plan and progress reports on its implementation will be circulated to other countries and international organizations and forums interested in the human rights of Sri Lanka.
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Nine nabbed for catching seafood
Saturday, 8 October 2011 - 9:24 AM SL Time
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The Trincomalee magistrate U.L.A. Azaar imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on nine suspects apprehended for illegal collection of sea cucumber for export.
The magistrate ordered the Trincomalee harbour police to release the two fishing craft and diving kits on Rs 10,000 bond.
The suspects had been engaged in the collection of sea cucumber within the Trincomalee inner harbour and the navy had taken the suspects into custody with 150 sea cucumbers and handed them over to the harbour police OIC Upali B. Narampanawa who produced them in courts.
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Occupy Wall Street. . Finally get mains stream media can`t ignore it ........
Saturday, 8 October 2011 - 4:54 PM SL Time
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Wall Street should have seen it coming. After all, market forces were at work.
Take a financial crisis that yielded few prosecutions add a broken government in Washington then mix in millions of unemployed adults with nothing but time on their hands and it`s no wonder Occupy Wall Street came screaming out of the economic chaos.
The calls for revolution echoing from Lower Manhattan to Washington and the rest of the nation are also conjuring up comparisons to the battle cries of another political movement, the tea party.
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Former Ukranian PM jailed for corruption..
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 - 7:32 PM SL Time
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Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko has been jailed for seven years.
A judge ruled she had criminally exceeded her powers when she signed a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Mrs Tymoshenko said the charges were politically motivated. She vowed to appeal against her sentence and fight for Ukraine `till her last breath`.
Riot police stood outside the court as thousands of supporters and opponents gathered. There have been minor clashes and some arrests.
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As expected, USA declares war with China.: a trade war.
Thursday, 13 October 2011 - 3:23 PM SL Time
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BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Arguing that the RMB yuan`s exchange rate is not the cause of China- U.S. trade imbalance, China expressed its strong oppositions hours after the U.S. Senate passed a controversial bill that would slap tariffs on Chinese goods for the so-called `currency manipulation`, warning the U.S. politicians against politicizing the issue of China`s currency and resorting to trade protectionism.
In a written statement posted on its website, China`s Foreign Ministry urged rejection of the bill.
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Minister Keheliya denies appointing injured legislator as a supervising MP for Sri Lanka Defence Ministry
Saturday, 15 October 2011 - 7:36 AM SL Time
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Oct 14, Colombo: A senior minister of the Sri Lankan government says that ruling party Colombo District parliamentarian Duminda Silva currently being treated at the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital for gunshot injuries was never appointed as an advisor or supervisor of the Defence Ministry.
Cabinet Spokesperson and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told the media that the statement made in parliament by Chief Government Whip Minster Dinesh Gunawardena that there were no supervising MPs for any ministry was accurate.
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China leader `worried` by rising trade protectionism
Saturday, 15 October 2011 - 4:28 PM SL Time
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BEIJING (AFP) - China`s Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday took aim at what he called `rising trade protectionism`, saying trade disputes were hampering a global economic recovery.
`What is worrying is that... trade protectionism is rising sharply,` Wen said in a televised speech. `Trade protectionism will only slow the pace of world economic recovery.`
The Chinese leader made no specific mention of the United States or other countries, but his remarks followed the US Senate earlier this week passing legislation aimed at punishing China for its alleged currency manipulation.
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Raid on Western Provincial Council Minister Nimal Lanzs home gathers storm
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 - 9:07 PM SL Time
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Western Provincial Minister of Tourism, Transport and Highways Nimal Lanza yesterday threatened to take legal action against police commandos for raiding his house at Negombo on Monday night without a Court order.
Lanza told The Island that President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who visited his residence yesterday morning, on hearing of the incident, ordered IGP N. K. Illangakoon to probe the raid and submit a report immediately.
He said he told the President that his enemies had given a false lead to the STF to humiliate him.
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Sri Lanka woos Solheim in Norway for Countering war crimes allegations:
Friday, 21 October 2011 - 3:20 PM SL Time
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In the wake of the LTTE targeting Sri Lanka over accountability issues, the government has sought the support of one-time Norwegian peacemaker, Erik Solheim to counter those trying to haul the Sri Lankan leadership up before an international war crimes tribunal.
Solheim holds the Environment and International Cooperation portfolio in the current Norwegian government.
Government sources told `The Island` that President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s special representative, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva had met Solheim and Norwegian Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Store, separately. Responding to a query, sources said that a lengthy GoSL statement on Minister de Silva`s confab with the Foreign Minister didn`t refer to his meeting with Solheim. Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa accompanied de Silva, Leader of the House and President Rajapaksa`s choice as his chief negotiator for two rounds of talks in Geneva, in early 2006.
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Prime Minister says unscrupulous officials grabbing land
Saturday, 22 October 2011 - 9:33 AM SL Time
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Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne charged in Parliament yesterday that filling and selling of land on a large scale was taking place in the country with the support of some unscrupulous government officers.
Mr. Jayaratne, who was speaking during the debate on the Agrarian Development (Amendment) Bill in the House yesterday, said that several requests made by him to release lands for poor farmers had been turned down by the same officers. Some government officials behave in an unscrupulous manner, the PM said. He pointed out that the country was losing the opportunity of becoming self-sufficient in paddy when the lands are filled and sold in this manner to outsiders.
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Parliamentarians praise President rebuilding and rehabilitation of the road network.
Saturday, 22 October 2011 - 8:15 PM SL Time
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Major economic victories by govt President
More extensive development programmes next year:
The government has achieved a major victory by maintaining the country`s economic growth rate at eight percent and bringing down inflation from 11 to 7 percent during the last two years, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa when he met government party Parliamentarians, who hold ministerial or deputy ministerial posts, at Temple Trees, to ascertain their views on preparation of the 2012 budget proposals yesterday.
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Parliamentarians praise President for rebuilding and rehabilitation of the road network.
Saturday, 22 October 2011 - 8:16 PM SL Time
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Major economic victories by govt President
More extensive development programmes next year:
The government has achieved a major victory by maintaining the country`s economic growth rate at eight percent and bringing down inflation from 11 to 7 percent during the last two years, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa when he met government party Parliamentarians, who hold ministerial or deputy ministerial posts, at Temple Trees, to ascertain their views on preparation of the 2012 budget proposals yesterday.
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The Parliamentarians praise President for rebuilding and rehabilitation of the road network.
Saturday, 22 October 2011 - 8:18 PM SL Time
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Major economic victories by govt President
More extensive development programmes next year:
The government has achieved a major victory by maintaining the country`s economic growth rate at eight percent and bringing down inflation from 11 to 7 percent during the last two years, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa when he met government party Parliamentarians, who hold ministerial or deputy ministerial posts, at Temple Trees, to ascertain their views on preparation of the 2012 budget proposals yesterday.
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WikiLeaks: LTTE defeat upsets Asian drug trade says US embassy
Sunday, 23 October 2011 - 5:11 PM SL Time
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The military defeat of the LTTE in May, 2009, may have changed the dynamics of the drug trade in Asia. Since 1983, the LTTE was involved in bulk delivery of heroin and cannabis from producing areas in Asia to consuming countries. Mumbai was the key link in the LTTE drug trade. While Sri Lanka`s coast remains highly vulnerable to transshipment of heroin moving from India, observers expect a dramatic reduction in drug-related activity in the region. the US embassy wrote to Washington.
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Lunch packet manufacturers to get ID and uniform
Monday, 24 October 2011 - 9:42 PM SL Time
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(Colombo, Lankapuvath) - Measures are underway to issue an identity card and introduce a uniform to the lunch packet manufacturers within the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) city limit.
Accordingly, the new law will be implemented from November, Chief Medical Officer of the Colombo Municipal Council Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam said.
Kariyawasam added that sponsors to invest on this project have been found.
He further said 140 lunch packet manufacturers were registered under the CMC while many manufacturers continue business unregistered with the CMC.
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Those who live by the Dhamma are protected by the Dhamma SEC Chief tells investors
Tuesday, 25 October 2011 - 4:17 PM SL Time
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairperson Indrani Sugathadasa on Saturday used religion to bring some sanity to the capital market, currently marred by allegations of greed and power.
Before concluding her speech at the ceremonial opening of the SEC-organised Investment Day 2011 at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre, Sugathadasa, quoting Lord Buddha, said: Those who live by the Dhamma are protected by the Dhamma, if not
This message of ethical and fair practices at the highly-patronised event was perhaps aimed at all investors, some of whom upon hearing the quotation chipped in saying that it applied to officials as well.
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Billion of rupees get vanised from online lottery
Thursday, 27 October 2011 - 8:23 AM SL Time
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In another glaring instance where public money has been wasted due to corruption, the country has lost a massive Rs.983 million as a result of an investment made in a Norwegian company a few years ago for an online lottery, the parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has revealed.
The lottery had been introduced during 2002-2004 by a then United National Party (UNP) government minister who later crossed over to the government. A COPE member told the Daily Mirror on condition of anonymity that the United People`s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Cabinet had however written off this transaction on October 28, 2009 apparently because of the influence wielded by this politician now in government ranks. If this lottery scheme had been in use, Sri Lanka`s Development Lotteries Board would have been adversely affected, he said and added that this powerful politician even contested the October 8 local council elections on the government`s ticket.
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Sri Lanka should emulate Venezuela - Wimal Weerawanse
Friday, 28 October 2011 - 7:50 PM SL Time
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`We have the responsibility of creating a counterforce against the Western backed imperialist forces to build a human race with a sense of humanism,` said Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa.
He was speaking at a symposium on Venezuela and its leader Hugo Chavez at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute recently.
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Govt. is gambling with EPF fund in stock market and lost heavily - JVP
Saturday, 29 October 2011 - 10:36 AM SL Time
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It has been proven that the government has gambled and lost heavily on the Colombo Stock Exchange, using the monies lying to the credit of the Employees` Provident Fund, said former JVP MP cum trade union wing leader Wasantha Samarasinghe.
He told The Island that government had invested the EPF monies in a bid to boost the value of shares of some interested companies.
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