President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe at the Adhistana pooja at the Henry Pedris Stadium yesterday. Pictures by Rukmal Gamage   President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga shakes hands with a female LTTE cadre in Trincomalee while on a tour of the tsunami hit Northern and Eastern Provinces. AFP

President tells her people :

Like the Phoenix Sri Lanka will rise from the ashes

by Ranil Wijayapala

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday appealed to the Nation to resolve their differences and join hands and rise together from the ashes.
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Centre for National Operations for relief work

The Centre for National Operations has been set up under President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to co-ordinate all operations related to tsunami disaster at the Presidential Secretariat.
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All should work to save the country, says Ranil

Each and every person of the country as political parties and as the civil society should fulfil the responsibility vested upon them in the process of reconstructing the country to rise from the ashes of destruction, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.
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World Bank pledges $350 m in aid

COLOMBO, Friday, The World Bank Friday said it was allocating 100 million dollars to Sri Lanka out of an immediate budget of 250 million dollars for nations devastated by the tsunamis.
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• Economy grew by 5.0 per cent

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• Swift measures to restore transport links

• Rs. 135.5 m for tsunami victims of 16 districts

• International relief flows

• ASPI down, MPI up

• Foreigners praise Lankans' hospitality

• Rs.126 m worth medicine to affected areas

• Tsunami devours resort that war spared

• Korea sends relief assistance

• Boy rescued from Yala

• Malaysian medical team in Sri Lanka

• Plantation Industries Ministry launches program for displaced

• In letter to President : Hindu Congress prays for peace in the new Calendar Year

• Government LTTE cooperation essential to deliver relief -NPC

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