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President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday asked Attorney General Mohan Peiris to examine the legal aspects of acquiring Ceylinco assets and properties, even through the enactment of legislation, to grant relief to long-suffering depositors of Golden Key and other finance companies of the crisis-hit group."We are prepared to take meaningful steps to grant redress to thousands of distraught depositors even by taking over the assets of this group", he assured a delegation of depositors.
Common Candidate Gen.(retd) Sarath Fonseka listens attentively as JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe drives home a point during last Friday’s special Maha Sangha Convention of the National Bhikshu Front (NBF) to honour the veteran soldier, at the Abhayaramaya in Narahenpita. The event was presided by NBF’s chief patron, Ven. Prof. Attangane Ratanapala Nayaka Thera.(Pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja)
US tilt in pre-election
period welcomed by govt.
Although the government is wary about the possibility of
at least a section of the international community throwing its weight
behind the Opposition candidate former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka
Fonseka slams ‘despicable
abuse of state media’
General Sarath Fonseka, the common opposition candidate
at the forthcoming presidential election, yesterday slammed what he
called ``government’s abuse of the state media’’ in the run up to the
election saying that the administration’s conduct on this score was
"despicable."
