It was a late Christmas for some prisoners when the first batch of 1,000 prisoners were released yesterday under the special amnesty granted to prisoners on account of Christmas. Here the prisoners walk out of the Welikada Prison after they were released. Picture by Avinash Bandara

Call to probe LTTE's cremation claim

by Manjula Fernando

Parents of missing servicemen have called on the Government to inquire into a claim by the LTTE that it was forced to carry out mass cremations of soldiers' bodies who perished in action due to the refusal of the then Government to accept the bodies.LTTE's chief negotiator Anton Balasingham, in a revelation which stunned the nation, claimed that the former Government's refusal to accept bodies of fallen combatants left his movement with no alternative but to burn the remains. Full story

Double boost for Samurdhi this year

by Uditha Kumarasinghe

The Samurdhi Movement, the key poverty alleviation movement in the country, will add Rs. 26 billion to the country's economic perfomance this year, Samurdhi Director General Dr. Sunil Jayantha Nawaratne told the Daily News yesterday.
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