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All’s set for today’s election where 2,378 candidates of
various hues will vie for 104 Western Provincial Council seats.
Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake said he had
requested political party secretaries to see that their candidates do not
violate election laws.
President to accept Ranil’s challenge
The President said he had no time to waste at Five Star hotels debating with the UNP leader at this juncture. "I have more important things to attend to," the President said.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Indian National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan and Indian High Commissioner in Colombo Alok Prasad listen to President Mahinda Rajapaksa while Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Secretary to the President, Lalith Weeratunga look on during yesterday’s meeting on latest situation in North held at Temple Trees.
Army confident Tiger boss
holed up in no fire zone
Brigadier Silva said there was strong evidence that most of the LTTE
cadres were wary of fighting and looking for an opportunity to surrender
but they were being held at the battlefront at gunpoint by the LTTE
leadership.
No need for spl. Missions
– Kohona
Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona stressed that there was
no need for special missions from other countries to evacuate the IDPs
from the safe zone and the situation may not arise as over 100,000
civilians have already moved to...
Norway
admits shortcomings
An event which gained public attention over the
avurudu period was the attack...
