BOI targets $1 bn foreign investment

Information and Media Minister and Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa told Parliament yesterday that the Board of Investment (BOI) is anticipating to attract foreign investment worth over US$ one billion to Sri Lanka during this year.

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India asks LTTE to lay down arms

India yesterday asked the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to give up their weapons and said it was ready to work with Sri Lanka to evacuate civilians caught up in the war zone.

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Sampanthan’s statements tainted with pro-LTTE bias

Government Defence Affairs Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday called Tamil National Alliance Leader R. Sampanthan a proxy of the LTTE in Parliament.

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LTTE aircraft pieces, lathe machines found

The skeletal parts and several partly-burnt pieces of a fuselage and a rotor blade of a helicopter that could have been experimented by LTTE terrorists, apparently for their clandestine aerial operations were among the latest startling wreckage emerged from the newly captured areas in Waddaikachchi on Wednesday,

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Lanka resilient to global crisis

- WB Country Director

Sri Lanka is resilient to the global crisis and has many opportunities for social safety net programs, said World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka Naoko Ishii.

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