Colombo at night. Picture by Lakshman Samarathunga

People's Bank Rs. 4b loan shock

Banking sources yesterday made the shocking disclosure that the People's Bank was in the process of settling a massive Rs. 4.8 billion debt owed it by Yasodha Group, for as little as Rs. 10 million.
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UNF Government's disinformation bared

The UNF Government's disinformation campaign to hoodwink the people of this country and the international community by pretending it was willing to end the political impasse through a compromise, when in fact it was covertly insisting, at the consensus talks, popularly known as Mano-Malik talks, that the Defence portfolio with full powers including the Armed Forces should be handed back to the Prime Minister, has been exposed.
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• Prime Minister launches stamp to commemorate 125th Royal-Thomian

• Charges framed against Sumathipala

• Lanka, Russia defence pact

• National Christian Council gravely concerned

• Health worker on death fast hospitalised

• Gains at Bourse

• PM Thai bound

• HC dismisses Sumathipala's revision application

• Lanka aid must continue - Norway

• Foreign Minister meets Iranian Finance Minister

• World Bank South Asia chief economist to visit Lanka

• Consular services for Non-Resident Indian nationals

• Karu wants electricity consumption reduced by at least 10 percent

• Steady progress for Press Complaints Commission

• Golden Jubilee celebrations of Aquinas College of Higher Studies

• Launch of Spice Council, boon to cinnamon industry

• Che Guevera's "Bolivian Diary" launched in Sinhala

• Rs. 9.7m worth sub-standard tea seized

• News in brief

• MBE for Romesh Vaitilingam

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