'Lanka has made significant contributions to UN-Habitat
achievements'
Urban Development Minister at UN-Habitat
Conference :
Priority for attention in Government programmes
was being given to improving the living conditions of the
underprivileged in the slum and shanty sector and hitherto rural
communities. Housing, water and sanitation were intertwined with
other issues - gender, income generation, environment and culture -
which together define poverty, the reduction of which was the
objective of the conference.
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JVP, JHU, SJS challenge CA ruling on CFA
JVP, Jathika Hela Urumaya and Sinhala Jathika
Sangamaya filed three Special Leave Applications in the Supreme
Court challenging the order of the Court of Appeal that had
dismissed three petitions seeking to quash the Ceasefire Agreement
signed between the Government and the LTTE in 2002.
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