Colombo will be the Garden City of Asia within the next couple of years, said President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga unveiling the plaque to declare open the “Beira Walk” as part of the Beira Lake restoration project which is being carried out by the Ministry of Ports and Aviation and the Ministry for Urban Development and Water Supply. In the foreground are a fleet of sail boats with their blue sails swaying in the evening breeze. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is flanked by Ministers Mangala Samaraweera and Dinesh Gunewardena.  pic by Sudath Malaweera.

UNP runs amok in Parliament

by our Parliamentary Correspondents

There was chaos in Parliament yesterday as UNP MPs ran amok as they demonstrated violently demanding the suspension of Parliament until former MP and Minister S. B. Dissanayake was released from jail and allowed to continue as an MP.
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President unveils plaque inaugurating the Beira Lake Restoration Project

by Asanga Warnakulasuriya

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday said that the conversion of Colombo into the Garden City of Asia will become a reality within the next couple of years with the ongoing development and restructuring projects initiated by the Government.
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LTTE suspect nabbed with Rs. 6m worth heroin

by Asanga Warnakulasuriya

A suspected LTTE cadre who tried to smuggle 3.2 kg of pure brown sugar worth over Rs. 6 million to Colombo was nabbed by Murungan Police at the Parayanakulam junction Police post.
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• Samurdhi Development officers made permanent

• US renovates schools in Hambantota and Moneragala

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• UNDP to support prison modernisation project

• 14th convocation of Buddhist and Pali University

• Bopath Ella, a unique tourist attraction

• Cabinet paper to prevent opening of liquor outlets in supermarkets

• Police to probe Kirindiwela depot attack

• St. Joseph's College OBA AGM case : Notice issued on Vice-President following plaint

• Professor Sirisena Tilakaratna memorial oration

• Sixteen CME employees further remanded

• Evidence contradictory : Court aquits four murder suspects

• Law Commission re-constituted

• Moors' Association appeals for Rajaratnam's release

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• News in brief

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