Russian frontier guards patrol along Tajik-Afghan border, some 300 kms from the capital Dushanbe, September 24, 2001. Russia said on Monday it would arm Afghanistan’s anti-Taliban opposition and open an air route for humanitarian aid if the United States attacked the country it accuses of sheltering Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden. REUTERS

Government indemnity assures resumption of SriLankan flights

by Ravi Ladduwahetty

The national carrier SriLankan Airlines resumed its flights yesterday afternoon following the Government offering US$ 1.45 billion as indemnity.This indemnity required by the financiers will cover the airline's eight aircraft which comprises one A-320 aircraft, three A-340 aircraft and four A330 aircraft. 
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Seventeenth Amendment a great leap forward - SLFP

The passing of the 17th amendment to the Constitution by consensus of the three main parties is a great leap forward akin to the leap mankind made with Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, says the Information and Publicity Unit of the SLFP, in a press release issued yesterday under the signature of its Media spokesman Mangala Samaraweera MP.
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