ROAD-READY NORTH
* Ninety
percent road network rebuilt
* Colossal
amount for railway, electricity
projects
The Ports and
Highways Ministry has completed
construction and reconstruction of
90 percent of highways and roads in
the North and Eastern provinces
since the end of the war, Ports and
Highways Deputy Minister Nirmala
Kothalawala said yesterday.
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President stresses need to
foster religious and ethnic harmony
President
Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday stressed
the importance of people of
different communities and religions
forging closer bonds between them.
He said all citizens should take the
responsibility to promote ethnic and
religious harmony.
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India’s Janatha
Party leader tells media :
Sri Lanka will come up trumps in
Geneva
A large number of
member nations will back SL :
India’s Janatha
Party leader Dr Subramanian Swamy
expressed his conviction of a
positive outcome for Sri Lanka in
Geneva on the basis of its
outstanding feat of ending three
decades of terrorism and
safeguarding the lives of its
people.
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Formulated in
State Council by British rulers:
Lands Act should be amended to
suit present needs – minister
The Lands Act
which was formulated and passed by
the British rulers in the State
Council long years ago, still exists
in our country and is responsible
for several problems encountered by
the people. Therefore this Act must
be amended as soon as possible so as
to suit the present needs of all
citizens alike, Land and Land
Development Minister Janaka Bandara
Tennakoon said.
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Drug addicts, peddlers highest
in correctional centres
A sizable number
of offenders in correctional centres
are there for substance related
offenses. They constitute 65 percent
of all offenders in correctional
facilities throughout the country,
said Consortium of Humanitarian
Agencies Executive Director Jeevan
Thiyagarajah who is also associated
with the Institute for Human Rights.
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Information Ministry Website up
and running
The official
Website of the Mass Media and
Information Ministry hacked two days
ago by an organized anti Sri Lankan
global movement has been fully
restored and will function again
with a high security system to
prevent any future cyber attacks,
Media and Information Ministry
Secretary Dr. Charitha Herath said.
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