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Indian leaders tell Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse: India is keen on resuming peace talks Bharatha Malawaraarachchi reporting from New Delhi The Indian Government is very keen on the early resumption of peace
talks between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE, Prime Minister
Mahinda Rajapakse was told yesterday. During talks with Prime Minister
Rajapakse, Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the Indian
administration is keen on the early resumption of peace talks. Germany to support Lanka's garment industry by Asanga Warnakulasuriya The Sri Lanka garment industry will not suffer with the abolition of
the quota system in 2005 as the German Government has agreed to the
request made by the Sri Lankan Government to introduce a " General
Scheme of Preference for least developed countries". Boost for Indo-Lanka FTA Bharatha Malawaraarachchi reporting from New Delhi A high powered Indian delegation will visit Sri Lanka next month to
review and expand the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and
India. The delegation led by Secretary of Commerce will lay special focus
on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the two
countries, says Sri Lankan High Commissioner in India Mangala Moonasinghe. Govt nod for Norochcholai project The Government will go-ahead with the Kalpitiya-Norochcholai Coal Power
Plant Project, said Christian and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Milroy S.
Fernando. Electricity is a most sought after commodity and the Ceylon
Electricity Board cannot meet the rising demand for hydropower and the
best and the cheapest alternate is coal power, he said. Healthy voter turnout at PC polls Contrary to Opposition claims that the general voter turnout at the
Provincial Council Elections had dipped to below 50 per cent and was the
lowest in the country's electoral history, statistics produced by the
Election Commissioner's Department showed the average voter turnout to be
a healthy 57.06 percent. Other Stories
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