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Not convinced, eh?
New IGP Chadra Fernando and EPDP Leader and Minister
Douglas Devananda recently met at the Korean National
Foundation Day celebrations in Colombo, where they
exchanged pleasantries and compared their notes on the
security situation. Minister Devananda, who is
Prabhakaran’s bete noire being stalked by suicide cadres
relentlessly, does not appear to be quite convinced by
what the IGP is saying.
(Picture by D. Banduwardane)
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High alert in Trinco as
LTTE calls hartal
Police and the Security forces were placed on a
heightened state of alert in Trincomalee to prevent any untoward
incident from taking place following an LTTE call for a full
day’s hartal today, as a number of Sinhala organisations from
the South had joined the fasting families of two homeguards
abducted by the Tigers, a Security forces spokesman said.
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Three Malaysian fake credit card racketeers arrested
Acting on the instructions of the HSBC Card Centre, its
dealers recently helped the Colombo police to arrest
three Malaysians believed to be members of a group
engaged in a major racket in counterfeit international
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Mines threaten over
500,000 in North and East – UN report The UN Mine Action Report on Sri Lanka for 2004
says that nearly 500,000 people in 405 villages in the North and
East are believed to be threatened by mines.
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CPA will not let
consumers down - Musheen
Consumer Protection Authority Chairman Dr. M. M. Musheen said there was no doubt that world market prices of gas
had shot up, but the CPA would always mediate to safeguard the
consumer from being exploited and plunged into further
difficulty.
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Economic growth: Does political regime matter? Five decades
experience of Sri Lanka
The 13th Parliamentary General Election saw the finale on 2
April 2004. It was the most peaceful election that Sri Lanka
ever experienced during the last two decades. No curfew was
imposed, as it was not necessary to maintain the law and
order, even though it had been the case in the past to enforce
curfew immediately after an election.
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"Abomination"
The question "What are the powers demanded by
the LTTE for the ISGA?" could be answered truthfully and
comprehensively with just one word, namely, "Everything".
However, since such a laconic but accurate answer would not
satisfy the reader, that question is answered in greater
detail below.
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- Pakistan, Sri Lanka
to renegotiate lists of items
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Sri Lanka are to
renegotiate the list of items under 100 percent concession list,
the no concession list and the phase-out list after Colombo
unilaterally made some changes in the list of items under 100
percent concession list, an official source told Daily Times.
- Sale of Gold and
Silver Commemorative coins under new revised prices
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has made
arrangements to sell a limited stock of gold and silver
commemorative coins at prices determined on the basis of
prevailing dally prices of gold and silver.
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