Minister of Finance and Administration Senator Nick Minchin, Minister of Citizenship and Multi-Cultural Affairs Gary Hardgrave with the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia Major General Janaka Perera at the Dawn of Hope Photographic exhibition which is sponsored by the ANCL held at the Federation Ballroom of the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra yesterday. Parliamentarians, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, businessmen, journalists and wellwishers attended the exhibition and the function organised by the Sri Lankan High Commission in Australia.  Picture by Ravindra Seneviratne

Budget to benefit public servants, pensioners

The Budget 2004 will be investment and development oriented, Finance Minister K.N.Choksy told the Daily News yesterday. The Budget will be presented in Parliament next month.
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Prime Minister, Ken Balendra head LMD opinion poll

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been voted as the most effective national leader since independence while veteran business leader and former Group Chairman of John Keells Holdings Ltd Ken Balendra has been voted as the most effective business leader since independence in an opinion poll published in the October 2003 edition of the Lanka Business Digest.
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Govt ready for any situation, says Marapana

Defence Minister Tilak Marapana yesterday assured that the government will never abandon the strengthening of Security Forces at the expense of peace and said it has plans, troops and equipment to face any situation.
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• World Bank funds English, IT development at universities

• Police rescue abused boys from Children's Home

• Felicitations to Uganda

• Plastic imports to be taxed

• First local Aviation Academy opens

• CMC cleanup drive: Junk is bunk on Sunday

• Jolie releases journals on Lanka, Kosovo

• Rs. 300 million allocated as housing assistance for flood victims

• Grant all facilities to Sripada pilgrims: GA

• Today is World Postal Day

• Bauddhayatana Dhamma school shines

• Appeal Court sets a side conviction

• Exhibition of Bonsai begins on October 17

• News in brief

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