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Co-chairs to tighten screws on Lanka
The four Co-chairs meeting in Oslo next week are to consider the next step in the face of Sri Lanka’s refusal to bow to western pressure to halt the war, allow international monitors to oversee human rights obligations and to be cowed by cuts in western aid.
 
Population will decline after 2040
Sri Lanka’s population will decline after 2040, primarily due to a significantly low level of fertility, a think-tank has warned. Research by the Institute of Policy Studies has revealed that Sri Lanka’s population which is around 20 million now will reach 20.1 million by 2011 and could attain its peak of 21.1 million in 2031.
 

Blair offers to mediate
Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has offered to help resolve the Northern conflict in Sri Lanka after he steps down from office later this month.
 
SLT in another controversial deal
Telecommunication trade unions are accusing the NTT-controlled management of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) of making a series of controversial decisions even as the Japanese company prepares to give up management control by August.
 
   
Moragoda gets prime land for peanuts
   
Please go home!
   
Lanka cracks the whip
   
Ten commandments to restore peace in Sri Lanka
 
No military solution, but no bowing down to terrorism
 
Deduru Oya scheme in the doldrums
 
3 member team to probe into status of LRC land
 
The southwest monsoon sets in
 
All’s well, it did not end in a well
 
Tsunami victims get permanent houses
 
Tantirimale a sacred area on Poson Poya day
 
New security procedures send prices up
   
President considers polls in the east
   
Two die in Kitulgala boating accident
   
Fuel, power hikes on hold for now
   
SL to strike it rich with carbon trading
   
Abductions unchecked: UNP wants parliament to intervene
   
Opposition to supplementary estimates
   
No confidence motion on Keheliya by UNP
   
Odds and Ends
   
Abduction stories.......
   
So near, yet so far
   
Italy’s highest civilian award to Sri Lankan Ambassador
   
Past Pupils Associations oppose NEC circular on admissions
   
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