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North-East Bishops urge LTTE to honour truce


Catholic Bishops of the North-East have appealed to the LTTE to abide by the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) and preserve the peace process irrespective of the current stalemate in the talks.

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Health Minister to foreign investors: set up drug manufacturing plants


Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva invited foreign investors to set up pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Sri Lanka, promising all State assistance. He assured that the Government is prepared to extend a total 'money back' guarantee for the prospective investors.

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Combined pictures of the MV Maersk Norfolk being carried to the Jaya Container Terminal (JCT) by tug boats and the vessel at the JCT II berth. The MV Maersk Norfolk called at the JCT on July 25. This is the re-commencement of the Far-East Mid-East Services (FEME) West Bound call, following an exclusive Terminal Services Agreement (TSA) between the Maersk Sealand and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA).

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SA shippers for end to freight hikes


Karachi The Association of Shippers' Councils of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (ASCOBIPS) on Friday resolved to join hands with world's other Shippers' Councils to bring to an end the "Anti Trust Immunity", under which the shipping lines resort to "frequent and unjust" freight hikes.

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Indian captain Rahul Dravid hits a boundary against the West Indies during their triangular one-day series match at Rangiri Dambulu cricket stadium in Dambulla, Sri Lanka July 31, 2005.
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Dravid guides India to easy win


Indian captain Rahul Dravid showed his liking for the Rangiri Dambulla Stadium when he made his fourth score of over fifty in as many matches here to guide his team to an easy six-wickets win over a depleted West Indies side in the second match of the IOC tri-nation series under lights yesterday.   

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President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga introducing veteran journalist Janadasa Peiris who wrote ‘Chandrika Dashakaya, a Sinhala biography of the President to Graeme Wilson who wrote CBK, an English biography of President Kumaratunga. Graeme Wilson, an internationally famed writer who wrote the biographies of leading statesmen such as Tony Blair and Margaret Tatcher drew the attention of all by being dressed in the traditional Scottish Kilt.

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