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| Interim council for north |
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| A three-member Northern Province Interim Advisory body headed by Minister Douglas Devananda has been appointed by the government to oversee resettlement and development.
Minister Abdul Rishad Bathiudeen and Senior Presidential Advisor and parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa are the other members of the high-powered advisory body appointed by the cabinet on Wednesday. |
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| Thousands of
poll cards
undelivered.... |
| More than 170,000 poll cards of a total of 982,721 – around 20 per cent of the total voting strength in the Eastern Province -- still remain with the postal department undelivered despite the official period for distribution of poll cards ending on Friday. |
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| Mihin grounded until further notice |
| The troubled budget carrier Mihin Lanka has been forced to suspend operations indefinitely, from the beginning of this month, for want of aircraft, as exclusively reported in The Sunday Times last week in a story titled “Mihin Air craftless?”. |
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