Food quantum to Jaffna trebled after A9 closure
How can there be starvation - Commissioner
The Government has dispatched 81,345 metric tons
of essential items to Jaffna from August to up todate covering a
six-month period, Commissioner General Essential Services S.B.
Divaratne said yesterday.
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LTTE responsible for more than 6,000 child abductions this year
- UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund said as at
January 2007 they have recorded 6,241 child abductions in the North
and East provinces and blamed the LTTE terrorists for having
recruited 6,006 of them for war.
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Festive season price slash of 10 essential items
The Committee on Reducing the Cost of Living
yesterday decided to slash prices of 10 essential consumer items
during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year period. The decision was taken
at a meeting of the Committee at Temple Trees last evening presided
over by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Govt. has no necessity to suppress media - Media Minister
Cabinet Spokesman and Media and Information
Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa reiterated that the Government has
no necessity whatsoever to suppress the media, as it is a
fully-fledged democratic Government exercising its jurisdiction
within a free and fair framework of governance.
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