- A TRIUMPH FOR WISDOM AND COMMON SENSE

A huge sigh of relief prevails in Sri Lanka. News welcomed by every right thinking person followed by the announcement to remove the Halal certificate/logo from local products. Nobody needs to feel ashamed. It must be seen in terms of triumph for wisdom and common sense, or in other words a win for both sanity and rationality.

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Point of View

India has ITS OWN REASONS to worry about UNHRC moves

Navanethem Pillay complained in her annual report to the UNHRC for 2012 that, at the time of writing, the Sri Lankan government had not agreed to eight outstanding requests to visit Sri Lanka by her “special procedures mandate holders” - namely, those on minority issues; freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; freedom of opinion and expression; extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; enforced or involuntary disappearances; human rights defenders; independence of judges and lawyers; and discrimination against women in law and practice.

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Reminiscences of Gold

CRICKET’S wily raconteur

Epasinghe is a man with a Midas touch. Like King Midas who had the power of turning whatever he touched into gold, Premasara has succeeded in everything he has touched. He is also a man who understands the uncertainty of matter both on and off the cricket field. Luck and fortune have always been with him, heaping gifts from the horn of plenty. He is a versatile man who, in his own words, is a man of many parts. Stern faced and yet amicable, he is a conqueror of many fields.

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