Nation building needs advanced foresight

PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday observed that a Nation could not be built only with dollars and rupees and the lost freedom could not be reinstated simply through power and political means, but needed much advanced foresight, to achive these objectives.

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Staff can resuscitate Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation - President

The staff of the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation has the prime responsibility of rebuilding public confidence in their institution and transforming it to be the giant in the field of insurance, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

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Udamattala Airport project:

Land acquisition to be expedited

Minister Chamal Rajapaksa has directed the officials to expedite the acquisition of lands to begin construction of the proposed International Airport at Udamattala in Hambantota which will serve as an alternative to the Bandaranaike International Airport.

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Britain relaxes travel restrictions

British High Commissioner Dr. Peter Hayes said the UK Government has relaxed several restrictions on travel to Sri Lanka.

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Fraud case:

Ceylinco Sri Ram Directors released on cash bail

The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday produced four directors of Ceylinco Sri Ram Capital Management Private Company before Colombo Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Gihan Pilapitiya. They are alleged to have failed to pay the depositors Rs.7 billion.

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Sri Lanka’s leading manufacturer of hume pipes, Lankan Hume Pipes Company (Pvt) Ltd, (LHP) the only SLS 452 certified pipe manufacturer in Sri Lanka and the largest supplier of pre-cast products for local and foreign multinational companies, is fully operational to meet the increasing demand. Here, workers at LHP welding a large frame of a hume pipe at their factory at Polgasowita. The company is planning to set up a factories in the North and the East in the future according to Managing Director D. W. Jayantha Kumara. It is a hundred percent local company which has provided employment to over 100 people. Pix by Saliya Rupasinghe