Performers at the opening ceremony of the Pilgrims Rest at Yatagala Raja Maha Viharaya, Galle on Sunday, wait eagerly for their turn as their make-up get a final touch up. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was the chief guest at the opening ceremony. Picture by Ravindra Seneviratne

ADB assures funds for entire island : Rs.5,400 m for road projects

by Channa Kasturisinghe

Increased financial assistance to the conflict affected North and East by the Asian Development Bank would not be at the expense of funds to other areas of the country, the Bank's Country Director John Cooney said yesterday in Colombo.
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France seeks closer ties with Lanka

France was seeking closer economic ties with Sri Lanka and was ready with "concrete" support for the island's peace effort, visiting junior Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier said yesterday.
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Navy inspections the general rule - SLMM

The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) emphasised yesterday that the Government and the LTTE leadership agreed the SLMM would inspect the LTTE trawler south of Delft and that this arrangement was an exemption from the general rule that the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) should inspect LTTE boats with SLMM only monitoring the inspection.
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