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Tokyo
aid summit on schedule
With only two weeks to go for the aid donors meeting in Tokyo,
the UNF government is making a frantic bid to persuade the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to take part.
Tellefsen
wants SLMM flag at all times
Navy Commander Daya Sandagiri has referred to the Ministry
of Defence a directive by Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Chief
Tryggve Tellefsen,
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Colombo-based US diplomats quizzed
Two more
US diplomats who served in the Colombo mission now rocked
with a multi-million rupee visa scam have been held by Federal
Agents in that country, The Sunday Times learns.
SLFP-JVP
alliance: Dispute No.1
The JVP is demanding the powerful post of general secretary
in the proposed pact with the PA, but the SLFP is not willing
to part with the position, SLFP sources said.
Political
disaster behind the floods
The chronic cohabitation incompatibility between President
Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
struck again when neither of them was able to formulate a
proper disaster management plan to deal with the worst ever
floods.
Jeyaraj
ready for a fight over Katana
PA parliamentarian Jeyaraj Fernandopulle has vowed to fight
back against what he sees as an underhand move to oust him
from his seat and the party by a section of the SLFP hierarchy.
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In
the bad old days of not so long ago, the arrival of
the Indian Army to Lanka’s shores earned India
the wrath of the natives. This week, they came under
different circumstances. Here an Indian Army medical
officer treats an elderly Sri Lankan in flood-hit Deniyaya.
Pic by Ishara S. Kodikara
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