People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Dams, wells and ponds have gone dry across the western and northern parts of Gujarat forcing people to wait for hours around village ponds for the irregular state-run water tankers to show up as the temperature sores to over 44 degree Celcius. Reuters

Bumper Maha paddy harvest

by Uditha Kumarasinghe

This year's Maha season has brought a bumper harvest with a record yield of 1.93 million Metric tons the highest ever in a Maha season, Agriculture Ministry Secretary Dhanasena Hettiarachchi told the Daily News yesterday.
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PM replies to Balasingham : Govt seeks meeting with LTTE

by Ranga Jayasuriya

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday wrote to the LTTE underscoring the importance of a meeting between the Government and the LTTE to explain the innovative administrative structure for the North-East reconstruction and development proposed by the Government.
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Special Strike Force threatened

by Asanga Warnakulasuriya

The Special Strike Force set up to fight hardcore criminals, contract killers and drug traffickers has straightaway caused a flutter among the underworld and local mafia bosses , Director of Crimes Prevention and Public Relations, SSP Rienzie Perera told the Daily News yesterday.
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Sailors smash up hotel in Mabole

by Jayantha Sri Nissanka

A group of over 100 sailors went on the rampage smashing up an eating house and damaging personal property at the Mabole junction in Wattala on Sunday night.
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Navy to fly SLMM flag when carrying monitors

by Ranil Wijayapala

The Defence Ministry is set to convey to the Sri Lanka Navy that they should fly the SLMM flag when the sea monitors are on board Naval vessels in accordance with the agreement reached by the Government with the Norwegian facilitators in the peace process. Full story

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