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by Shirajiv Sirimane The Sri Lankan Government is having a very good relationship with the
World Bank. The Bank has never forced their way to implement any proposal
adverse to the country, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said.
High drama in batticaloa prison by Ranil Wijayapala The internecine clashes between the LTTE Vanni leadership and the
Karuna faction came to a head yesterday with two Karuna loyalists gunned
down inside the Batticaloa prison, police said yesterday. The main victim
Kanapathipillai Mahendran alias Satchi Master was acting as a spokesman
for Karuna now estranged from the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Thamil Broadcasting Corporation UK Ltd statement claims:1` The BBC distorts the truth In the news item posted on its web site dated Monday July 12, 2004,
under the headline 'Colombo denies aiding Tiger rebel', the BBC has
allegedly deliberately distorted facts relating to an inter view the
Thamil Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) had broadcast on Saturday July 10,
2004. World Bank has also faced doosras by Shirajiv Sirimane Vice President for South Asia, World Bank, Praful Patel seems to have
been following the controversies of the Sri Lankan cricket field,
specially the episode on Muththiah Muralitharan and the infamous 'doosra
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