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Monitors held by LTTE by Ranga Jayasuriya Two members of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) were held aboard
an LTTE vessel against their will in the waters off Jaffna late on
Saturday night, the Mission's spokesman Teitur Torkelsson told the Daily
News. Committee exposes fraud by Sarath Malalasekera The official Committee examining the purchase of arms for the Security
Forces has found numerous incidents of fraud running into millions of
rupees. Defence Minister Tilak Marapana appointed this committee to
inquire into the corruption and malpractice in purchasing arms and other
items for the forces over the past six years. The Free Media Movement (FMM) yesterday called on President Chandrika
Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to desist from taking over the state media and
asked the country's media to report the debate on the import of armoured
cars accurately, fairly and without bias. Petrol down by another rupee The price of a litre of petrol will go down by a further one rupee from
today, on top of the Rs.6.50 reduction announced by the government last
week. The new price is Rs.47.50 per litre. Other Stories |
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