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• Several injured in Jaffna Army, student clash

• Prelate praises President's aim for lasting peace

• 38th death anniversary of D. A. Rajapakse today

• President greets Thera on 87th birthday

• France-Lanka Financial Protocol signed

• Over 130 arrested in pre-dawn swoop

• Trained certificate essential for jobs in Malaysia

• Crime, an associate of social instability - JICA Director

• Rural road network development project launched in Matara district

• PGIS inaugurates degree programme in disaster management

• First step to link Asia with Europe by railways

• BOC extends facilities and services to outstation entrepreneurs

• Royal College '61 Group felicitates Lalith Weeratunga

BUSINESS

People's Bank to go hitech with e-banking in 2006

Chairman of the People's Bank Dr P.A. Kiriwandeniya said the Bank's is now in the process of introducing internet banking, phone banking and SMS banking next year in a bid to make the bank of the most state-of -the-art bank in the country.

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India’s Harbhajan Singh and Virender Sehwag (R) celebrate after Singh dismissed Sri Lanka’s Thilan Samaraweera in the first innings on the second day of the third and final cricket test match between India and Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad. REUTERS

SPORTS

Lankan batsmen prove they are just average

Sri Lanka batsmen showed that they neither have the temperament nor the strokes to tackle top class spin bowling when they continued to repeat the same mistakes which brought about their downfall at Delhi.  

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This trishaw driver in Borella is a busy man, earning a living from hires all over Colombo and suburbs. When he is relaxing at the trishaw stand, customers of a different kind flock to him. They need not hire his three wheeler, for they can fly. But they do need his tender loving care. Everyday, at more or less the same times, he feeds them to their heart’s content. Then they soar away happily, gratified that there are people who have a moment for other beings. Picture by Sulochana Gamage

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Asia watch: Phantom of ethnic violence visiting West

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Lankans go down tamely

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