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Navy chief gets tough on
SLMM issue

Sunday October 26, 2003

Don't take SLMM chief's advice
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has told the armed forces commanders they need not take instructions or advice from the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), retired Norwegian Major General Tryggve Tellefsen whom she wants removed.

Bush to meet Ranil again
US President George W. Bush will meet Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for a 30-minute summit meeting on November 4 - double the time allocated when they met July last year.

LTTE gives glimpse of long-awaited proposal
A guerrilla leader has given Tamil parliamentarians a glimpse of the proposals they are due to make to the Government next week. LTTE Political Wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan told nine MPs of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) that the proposed interim administrative ...

Two Lankans get life terms for murder
Two more Sri Lankans have been sentenced to life terms for murder, kidnapping and torture that rocked the town of Wembley and its environs, already shocked by violence in the Tamil community.

SLFP gets dose of its crossover medicine
SLFP General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena is taking urgent measures to prevent a group of five MPs from crossing over to the UNF, party sources said yesterday.

CEB unions say 'no' to collective pact
The CEB trade unions have decided not to sign the collective agreement prepared by the Board to finalise the restructuring of the CEB expected to commence by December.


President Chandrika Kumaratunga taking the salute from an island on the Dharmapala Mawatha-James Pieris Mawatha Junction as her party faithfuls converge on Colombo on Friday to attend the ‘Jana Sena’ protest rally. The President, however,did not attend the main rally at Town Hall. Pic by Lakshman Gunathilake

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