President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga offering a gold plated casket of relics to Mahanayaka of the Asgiriya Chapter- the Most Ven Udugama Saddharmakeerthi Sri Ratanapala Nayaka Thera at the President's House on Wednesday, which is to be deposited in the new chaitiya at Sankassapura in India shortly. The Maha Nayaka Thera of the Amarapura Nikaya Ven. Ambalangoda Sumangala Thera, Anunayaka Thera of the Asgiriya Chapter Ven. Galagama Dhammananda Thera and President of the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress S. Abeyratne are also in the picture. (Picture by Sudath Silva)

US demands Taliban turn over bin Laden

The United States Thursday stuck to its demands that Afghanistan's Taliban hand over Osama bin Laden, bluntly rejecting an edict by Islamic clerics in Kabul urging the ruling militia invite him to leave. Full story

Power crisis: Government turns to natural gas

by Ranil Wijayapala
The Government will decide on the implementation of key power generation projects using natural gas with the involvement of foreign investors within the next week, Land, Irrigation and Power Minister and Deputy Defence Minister General Anuruddha Ratwatte said.
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Seventeenth amendment before SC

The Government yesterday referred the 17th Amendment Bill to the Supreme Court for determination on its constitutionality.
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Parents of conscripted children attempt to commit suicide

Parents of teenagers subjected to LTTE conscription in the Batticaloa area have made a series of suicide attempts, defence sources said.
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