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Sidewalk spectacle! : The busy sidewalks of Pettah, home to the itinerant vendor and his melange of goods that range from the exotic to the bromidic, don’t often offer relief for maladies of the mind, body or soul. But in a ‘back to the future’ sort of time warp, medicine men of a time past, with their esoteric range of oils and herbs and mysterious potions, have made an appearance on the crowded sidewalk, offering a cure for everything from a broken heart to a balding pate. Have ailment, we’ll treat... seem to be their refrain, as discovered by our photographer Saman Mendis.

UN peace-keeping centre here

by Ramani Kangaraarachchi

Sri Lanka is all set to enter big time international 'peace keeping' with its very own training centre for United Nations Peace Keeping forces.
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Interim Administration proposals

Thamilselvan to meet Bala in Berlin

by Ananth Palakidnar

The LTTE political wing leader Suppiah Paramu Thamilselvan will take the Government's proposals on the North-East Interim Council to Berlin , for consultations with Dr. Anton Balasingham in the second week of August informed sources said.
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SL credit card gang nabbed in London

by Reggie Fernando our London Corr.

The Tamil Taskforce set up by Scotland Yard recently to fight escalating violence and crime among Sri Lankan Tamil gangs here nabbed a group last Thursday (July 24) said to be behind a cleverly organised 6 million pounds sterling (Rs. 600 million) credit card fraud.
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Police identify human smuggling kingpins

by S.Selvakumar and Jayampathy Jayasinghe

Police investigating the racket in the smuggling of people to Italy and other European destinations have identified the local kingpins and passed on all information regarding them to the Katunayake Airport to prevent them from escaping.
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Other Stories

• PM tells farmers to discard old methods

• No hanky- panky in school admissions

• Jaffna undergrads lock up VC, dons

• New forgery-proof passports in the offing

• Non - academic staff threaten TU action

• Govt. to bring in new Banking Act

• Bureau airport unit earns Rs. 1b. from migrant workers

• Railway TUs issue ultimatum to Govt.

• SriLankan Airlines and "Wisden" launch mega tourism drive in UK

• CB agrees to bare Pramuka assets

• News in brief

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