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• Reckless driving claims 16 lives in three days

• JCCP hands over second mine-free land to Vavuniya GA 

• No Sri Lankan nationals among casualties

• Setting up regional committee, regional fund under P-TOMS : Order reserved regarding interim relief

• Dahasak Maha Wev program continues

• Reflection of December 26 tsunami

• Killing of four at Malalasekera Mawatha : CCD directed to produce tea factory manager

• Systematic program to reorganise Dhamma school education

• Accelerated project to issue NICs

• Rs. 5,000 m for 14,000 Samurdhi projects

• P-TOMS - no cause for triumphalism or complacency
   

• NHDA spends Rs. 80m for 6,400 beneficiary families in Kandy

• NHDA spends Rs. 57 million for 3500 beneficiary families

• Death of IIESL founder president

Signing of the agreement for Sri Lanka’s first inland luxury passenger boat service was held last week. Chairman BOI, Saliya Wickramasuriya is exchanging the agreement with President Infoconsult Incorp Canada, Philip Ekanayaka. Officials of the Canadian Embassy, Kinecprics Inc of Canada look on. Picture by Sudath Malaweera

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Inland passenger boat service from December
 

Sri Lanka's first inland luxury passenger boat service between Battaramulla and Wellawatte will commence by the end of this year. The BOI approved project is a joint venture between Kinecprics Inc of Canada and Infoconsult Incorp of Canada is under taking this with an investment of US $ 16 million.

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Marvan Atapattu Sri Lanka captain and Shivnarine Chanderpaul West Indies captain

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Lanka keen and eager to get over and done with
 

Sri Lanka cricketers are overcoming the disappointment of confronting a weak West Indies side by motivating themselves to the fact that they have had no international cricket for the past two and a half months when the first Test opens at the SSC grounds today.  

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Last hurrah

The bacchanal revelry which marked the road circus that was the UNP’s much heralded Janabala Meheyuma replete with all the yuppie thrills, inebriated scenes and nagasalang is here seen on its final lap to the Colombo Town Hall Venue. Here a drunk shortly after fortifying himself from a Wine Stores in the background.
Picture by Dudley Wickremasinghe

Thousands of commuters stranded

Thousands of commuters, the large majority of them schoolchildren and office workers were stranded for long hours due to the Jana Bala Meheyuma disrupting the smooth flow of traffic and a number of roads having closed for reasons of security.
Picture by Rukmal Gamage

Sri Lankan Air Taxi expands operations

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