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Monday, September 15,  2008
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The Justice and Law Reforms Ministry has placed an order for the purchase of 27 petrol-driven cars for High Court judges prior to receiving Cabinet approval.
This came to light when Mass Media and Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa told a post-Cabinet press briefing early this month of Justice and Law Reforms Minister Amarasiri Dodangoda’s proposal.
Responding to our queries, Minister Dodangoda yesterday said that it was wrong to call for tenders before receiving Cabinet approval. But he acknowledged the possibility of his ministry placing ...

A section of the Civil Defence Force (CDF) personnel are pictured at Saturday’s final of the Holcim FA Cup tournament organised by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka, at the C R and F C grounds. The CDF formerly called the Home Guards service lost the final to the Police. Pic Kamal Wanniarachchi


Kidney patients duped by gang promising money from President’s Fund
The police have cracked a large scale racket of collecting money from kidney patients, on the promise that they would receive financial assistance from the President’s Fund.

Acting on Acting appointment
The Ports and Aviation Minister Chamal Rajapaksa has appointed Ranjith Silva, an Additional Secretary of his ministry as Acting Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) in the absence of Acting Chairman R. M. P. B. Wickrema.

Why elections? - Ranatunga
The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chairman, Arjuna Ranatunga, has expressed surprise..
Power and Prejudice
The story is more about he who cast the shadow than he who was in the shadow.
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