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Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama yesterday (7) told Parliament that the question of pruning the public sector or curtailing the rights of public sector employees had not arisen during talks with the International Monetary Fund.
He was answering a question by UNP Colombo District MP Ravi Karunanayake whether a gazette notification by the Public Service Commission had been issued to accommodate demands of the IMF in return for a loan of US$ 1.9 billion...
Journalist hurls shoe at
Chidambaram
A Sikh journalist on Tuesday hurled a
shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram protesting against the CBI’s clean
chit to senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler accused in 1984 anti-Sikh
riots case, but it missed the target.
Chidambaram, who was addressing a press conference at the
AICC headquarters, was surprised when suddenly Jarnail Singh, journalist
from a Hindi daily, flung the shoe and an alert Home Minister made a quick
movement to see it pass by him.
Plantations worse off than
rural/urban sectors
In spite of the prevalent tendency in...
India claim
historic series win
India achieved its first test series win in New
Zealand in 41 years Tuesday but in...
Marie
Antoinette’s Economic Management
The issue that will eclipse everything else including the war, this
year and the next...
