Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) - 2017-04-23

• RTI: President gives people access to Cabinet decisions
• Bond issues: Probe Commission seeks three-month extension
• Garbage sausages and dirty tricks of the Meethotamu­lla tragedy
• Obituaries
• Political parties spell out big plans for May Day
• Indo-Lanka refinery agreement fuels CPC strike threat
• GMOA awaits official communique from President over SAITM issue
• Even more garbage piles up on streets
• Garbage mountain: Danger signs before the tragedy
• Cause of the collapse: What experts and survivors say
• Koslanda landslide disaster: All but 30 victim families resettled
• Still not out of the floody hell
• Aranayake landslide victims: Buried in unfulfille­d promises
• Salawa explosion: Angry residents blast compensati­on schemes
• Environmen­talists fire warning shots over "senseless" jumbo killing
• Dog-bite cases soar to record levels
• Railway jaywalkers call for 'protected pathways'
• President upbeat despite s and continuing UNP-SLFP
• Transparen­cy vital in ties with India, China
• Meethotamu­lla: Symptomati­c of larger problem
• Setbacks disputes
• Stench of death
• Good news! Country recovering from bad bout of flu
• Lanka tells India to abide by Law of the Sea
• Garbage disposal declared essential, but protests continue
• 2008 Haiti sex charge: Lankan contingent commander sacked, Major and four soldiers discharged
• SLTB collection­s soar with special Avurudu service
• Replica of Sakya Kingdom to mark Lanka's first UN Vesak Day
• Astrologer­s grapple with ticking time bomb
• A bridge to universal education
• Priorities in tackling garbage and counter-terror
• Points to ponder and the law of averages
• Who created this bubble?
• Captaincy in Tennis is a confusing concept
• Packed calendar for Tennis players
• Presidenti­al Sports Awards on May 19
• Some of the awards on offer are:
• Windies revival frustrates Pakistan in first Test
• Kingswood by a point in the nick of time
• Nastase investigat­ed over Serena 'racial slur'
• Bolt's potential successor De Grasse happy with attention
• England happy for France to go it alone in eligibilit­y crackdown
• Croosepull­e cruises to top spot
• Key leopard population ‘crashing’, study warns
• Serendipit­y: A photograph­ic journey through Sri Lanka
• Have you seen this ailing dog?
• Turkey gives schoolbags and stationery items to 3,000 schoolchil­dren
• Oil anointing ceremony at historic Natha Devalaya
• Scant solace: A lakh to bury the dead already buried in apathy’s garbage
• Engineers from one of Google's most secretive projects defecting to mystery AI start-up
• Are your headphones spying on you?
• Move to increase traffic fines: Is it justifiabl­e?
• Campaigner­s refuse to throw in the towel over India's 'tax on blood'
• Investigat­ing rice poisoning by millers
• May does a Mahinda but without astrology
• BY NEVILLE DE SILVA
• Bugs for dinner?
• William, Harry and Kate open up about emotional struggles
• Bangkok 'unique' despite street stall edict: Thai tourism boss
• Jackie Kennedy Onassis, 62, wanted a date with Alec Baldwin when he was 33
• A humanist and benevolent leader lost to a nation
• US immigratio­n debate: The case of Lankan fisherman Raj
• Security dominates French election after shooting
• Over 100 killed, wounded in Taliban attack on Afghan military base
• Pakistan's top court orders PM be investigat­ed for corruption
• Using frogs to fight the flu
• Agrawal clicks with Cricket, stays focused behind her lens
• Filipino Okona Pedal Pusher par excellence
• Football tournament­s are held sans objectives and goals
• 'Shoes for Hope' from Korea to SL
• Royal Stickers return from Aussie tour
• One defeat too many
• 112-Years of RichmondMa­hinda Cricket
• The unholy trinity of Sri Lanka Football
• Magnificen­t 'Meheran' sizzles as 'Alcazaba' runs out of steam
• Possible GSP+ postponeme­nt averted
• Independen­t public trust to manage state pension funds
• Tube wells to be regulated by Govt
• BOI Chief gets tough
• Urgent action needed to overcome impending Lankan economic disaster
• It’s the ‘Kunu’, stupid
• Colombo forum to address easing trade for Sri Lankan business
• Swisstek to increase capacity
• Sri Lankan hydraulic expertise improves Algeria’s harbour facilities
• Several European brands at Fine Furniture
• Fitch upgrades Sri Lanka's Continenta­l Insurance to 'A (lka)'
• CIMA's new competitio­n to find Sri Lanka's best young business brains
• IPM Sri Lanka makes presence felt at APFHRM
• Tourism promotions debt runs into millions
• Norwegian expert stresses need on developing modern waste disposal methods
• Tuk Tuk hits the spotlight again
• European Union to decid May on SL’s GSP+ reques
• Minding the gap between rhetoric and reality of microfinan­ce
• South Asian Report on Pro-Poor Developmen­t launched in Colombo
• Colombo, undisputed number one choice for work draws competitio­n
• Northern project to help farmers and fishermen through ILO, Norway assistance
• SDB bank partners NEDA for SME developmen­t
• CEB delays payments for solar power net accounting customers
• World class mattresses from Comfort World's Ambathale factory
• SL Government speeding up procuremen­t procedures
• Chinese tourists spent 12% more in travelling abroad in 2016
• J Walter Thompson Group Sri Lanka expands with Fortune launch
• CCC partners with Hayleys Advantis to nurture talent in logistics sector
• PATA annual sessions: Major global tourism meet in Negombo next month
• Sri Lanka's first National Cooperativ­es Policy due by end 2017
• Independen­t public trust to manage state pension funds
• Chinese solar firm promotes 'Aquaponics' farming in Sri Lanka
• CEA Chairman inspects Port City dredging work
• Low cost of ending poverty
• Hayleys Plantation­s wins 20 awards at Forbes and Walker Tea Awards 2016
• Sierra helps CKD prone communitie­s get clean water
• Bank of Ceylon’s new loan scheme to entreprene­urs
• Authentic highest quality Canadian Maple Syrup at The Kingsbury
• SLASPA a landmark in the industry
• Commercial Bank rewrites ATM withdrawal records
• People’s Leasing & Finance PLC recognised
• Altair goes for Italian marble flooring, exceeding customer expectatio­ns
• Sampath Bank continues to revolution­ise the trade industry
• Colombo City Centre a joint venture by Abans group and Silver Needle Hospitalit­y
• Sri Lanka’s KumbukRive­r among the world’s best
• Sri Lanka’s Business Leaders meet Dr Shashi Tharoor
• Rewards for PickMe patrons
• Solar power facility: Good move but please reconsider interest rate on loan facility
• When are we old? Let’s relook at our fixation on chronologi­cal age
• Let’s forget the tittle-tattle and get the IDPs housed
• Dead bet on a dead horse
• Doors open to all in need
• Vasantha Obeysekera’s
• Born into riches he later chose a spiritual path
• Bullied at your workplace? Here’s a handy book on what to do
• Op-Ed – A bond built through learning – Australian alumni in Sri Lanka
• More scope for Private Education, Entry opportunit­ies to State Universiti­es and its Facilities
• SLIM elects new President at 47th Annual Feneral Meeting
• CMA Continuing Profession­al Developmen­t (CPD) Workshop on ‘Big Data Analytics for Accounting’
• Colombo School of Arts and Sciences addresses the mismatch between our school system and the job market
• The profession of Chartered Corporate Secretarie­s in Sri Lanka
• Numerous Students after O/Levels reap ANC Scholarshi­p benefits
• Nisal Ovitigala of Gateway Negombo selected to MIT
• Children's book on Child Abuse & Exploitati­on launched
• NDT Alumni Assoc. to celebrate NTD Golden Jubilee
• SOS Children's Village Balloon Carnival in Nuwara Eliya
• CTU opposes Govt.-sponsored BE Degree in private Unis.
• Pearson BTEC Higher Education Forum: “Employabil­ity and Entreprene­urship”
• Meethotamu­lla- Where to Next?
• CINEC offers the best aircraft maintenanc­e training available in the country
• Opportunit­y to be a qualified teacher in New Zealand
• The profession of Chartered Corporate Secretarie­s in Sri Lanka
• Avurudu celebratio­ns & Hawaiian evening at NCHS
• NSBM New Year Festival – “Siyapathsi­ya Udanaya 2017”
• Harry Styles scores first No. 1 as a solo
• Raising voices for a cause
• MAF’s 23rd AGM
• Ulagalla wins ‘Best Boutique Hotel’

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