‘Nation will be enthroned to
position of greatness’
The government
will bring the Lankan nation to a
position of greatness in the world
by implementing the policy of
Mahinda Chinthana, the Vision for
the Future. “It will establish a
better future for you and your
children, and the country will be
taken forward with more courage,
strength and confidence,” said
President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Steady erosion in Colombo’s UNP
vote base - Ministers
‘For the first
time in CMC history, a mayor of the
minority (not ethnically but
mathematically) has been appointed
to the Colombo Municipal Council.
‘Also, for the first time in CMC
history, the UNP has scored less
than 50 percent of votes in Colombo
at the recent LG polls, Skills
Development and Youth Affairs
Minister Dullas Alahapperuma told
the Daily News yesterday.
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‘Allegations will not damage
SL-Australia relations’
Sri Lankan High
Commissioner to Australia Admiral
(Retd) Thisara Samarasinghe said
that allegations of war crimes will
not damage relations between Sri
Lanka and Australia. In an interview
with the Queanbeyan Age, the Sri
Lankan High Commissioner also cast
himself as a ‘uniter’ of the
Sinhalese and Tamil communities in
Australia,
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‘Opposing everything is not
Opposition’s only role’
President
Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday, while
noting that an Opposition’s role was
not to oppose everything, said that,
however, today’s Opposition knew no
other role than opposing everything.
He added that the Opposition had not
stopped at that but had gone even
further by betraying the country,
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Walallawita Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Udeni Atukorala was arrested by Bribery Commission officials for allegedly soliciting a Rs 1.5 million bribe from the Bentara Paradeshiya Sabha chairman. It is reported that he had accepted the bribe to provide a permit to transport soil. 
