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Scotland Yard probe hits snag
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Detectives from Britain’s Scotland Yard may not arrive in Sri Lanka after all to assist in investigations into the murder of Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj. The reason – a dispute over a Scotland Yard demand that the suspects will not be handed down the death sentence upon conviction. The Yard wants such a provision incorporated in a Memorandum of Understanding.

 
Lanka plays diplomatic truant on Palestine vote

The Sri Lankan delegates made themselves absent when the UN General Assembly took up for voting a resolution calling for an end to Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip last week. The Foreign Ministry in Colombo confirmed that the delegates were absent, but declined to give reasons.

 
Minister gets hammered again by his wife

A Cabinet Minister and his wife recently engaged in a hand-to-hand fight at the Mount Lavinia Hotel. Eyewitnesses said the wife hit her husband after exchanging abuses. Later, she had walked out of the hotel. The husband who followed had found that his wife had parked her car blocking the road.

 
Double pay-hikes for President, PM and MPs

The President and all parliamentarians will get a thumping double pay hike with arrears while in the future their pay will be adjusted on par with the revisions of the salary structure in the judicial service, according to two resolutions rushed through parliament this week.

 
 

Jaffna people hit by ever-soaring prices and raging debates over A9

No food, no medicine and little education
 
Nov. 26: A national hero is remembered
Chikungunya spread by travellers, say health officials
 
Soldier, policeman remanded over Vavuniya student deaths
Army chief to continue
 
CEB luxury cars stuck in Port
18th Amendment gives way to new law
 
City turns motorists’ nightmare
   
President on working visit to India
   
7 claymore mines in Colombo
   
Rock’s charges: Govt. waits for Radhika’s response
   
UDA can’t sell land to people: MC
   
EU seeks to engage India in Lankan peace process
   
10 percent of schoolchildren unhealthy: Research
   
Senior Govt. officials questioned over SLIC privatization
   
Another slip betwixt cup and lip
   
Natural disasters: Scientists to the rescue?
   
Threats on TNA MPs: House promises action
   
Students denied visas on flimsy grounds?
   
Obeysekera case: Expert confirms signatures were forged
   
Garbage-blocked canals flooding residents out
   
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