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Ninety per cent of MPs engaged in politics for business - President by Ranil Wijayapala In a frank, forthright and hard hitting address at the Sri Lanka
Freedom Party Youth Conference yesterday, President Chandrika Bandaranaike
Kumaratunga pulled no punches when she said that politics has become a
business for a majority of people entering politics.
All contentious issues resolved: CWC confirms troth with Govt after three hour talks with President by P. Krishnaswamy Last Monday's talks between President Chandrika Bandaranaike
Kumaratunga and Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) delegation led by its
leader Arumugan Thondaman were highly successful, CWC stalwart and
Minister Muthu Sivalingam told the Daily News. SLMM members allegedly assaulted by LTTE by Bandula Seneviratne and P. Piyadasa An incident of assault on two members of the Sri Lanka Monitoring
Mission by a group of LTTE cadres at the LTTE office is reported from
Vavuniya. The two members of the Monitoring Mission had visited the LTTE
Vavuniya office on Tuesday to inquire into a complaint that a group of
persons detained in that office were being tortured. Inland Revenue Department detects: US $ 7 billion exports swindle by Shirajiv Sirimane Export proceeds amounting to nearly 7,000 million US dollars have not
been remitted to the country, an official of the Inland Revenue Department
revealed. "This is about three to four times the country's present
official foreign exchange reserves," he said. Other Stories
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