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Ignores calls for peace

LTTE kills nine sailors

Nine sailors were killed and eight injured in an LTTE claymore mine blast in Chettikulam on the Mannar-Medawachchiya road at 4.15 p.m. yesterday. According to the Navy Media Unit, the incident occurred at the 18th mile post in Chettikulam.

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Tourist arrivals to top 500,000 for third year

DESPITE the tsunami's effect on the tourism industry in 2004, Sri Lanka has surpassed half a million tourists arrivals for the third consecutive year in 2005, Director General of the Sri Lanka Tourist Board (SLTB) S. Kalaiselvam told the Daily News.

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The Colombo Port will have a streamlined Terminal Management Computer System with new specifications drawn up to meet the needs of the SLPA as a mega transshipment port. Our cameraman Sumanachandra Ariyawansa captured this aerial view of the Port from the heights of the World Trade Centre.

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Aquatic resource project woos investors to develop inland fisheries

The Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project is financed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Asian Development Bank, ADB/ARDQIP is implemented by National Aquaculture Development Authority, which is a statutory body that comes under the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Development.

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Pakistan’s former cricket captain Imran Khan (on left) presents a memento to Indian captain Rahul Dravid (C) while V. Laxman (on right) applauds in Lahore January 11, 2006. India’s cricket team visited cancer-stricken children in former Pakistan captain Khan’s cancer hospital on Wednesday, a trip Sachin Tendulkar called a “moving experience”.Reuters

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Warne out of VB series

Lankans looking to shed losing habit

The Sri Lankan cricketers who have made losing a habit, would be looking to shed it and give the rampaging Australians tough competition and not suffer a bitter defeat when they meet in the first Victoria Bitter triangular series under lights here today.   

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Wednesday was the second day of the Annual Duruthu Maha Perahera of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya. Here Viharadhipathi Ven. Dr. Kollupitiya Mahinda Sangharakkhita thera carrying the relics casket.
Picture by Sudath Nishantha.



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