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| CID thrown open; top officers moved out |
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| What is easily the Police Department's most coveted arm, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), is undergoing a complete purge.Officers at the higher echelons are all being moved out after a new decision that they should also serve in operational or war-torn areas. Until now, the CID has remained a closed unit and its senior officers were never transferred. |
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| Ex-foreign minister warned India may join in imposing embargoes |
| The then Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera warned President Mahinda Rajapaksa that India may join western powers to bring international strictures and even embargoes on Sri Lanka. |
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| 80 million-rupee luxury BMWs for new ministers |
| Contrary to assurances that the new ministers in the super-size Cabinet of President Mahinda Rajapaksa will only be drawing their salaries as parliamentarians and not be given any perks, a scramble for luxury vehicles by the new ministers has begun. |
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| President takes 100-member team to China |
| A business boom with China is expected when President Mahinda Rajapaksa takes a jumbo delegation of about 100, including more than 40 business chiefs, to work out joint ventures with a country that is showing the fastest economic growth in the world. |
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