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TN Police cracks
the whip:
Mihin office sit-in stopped
*Eleven pro–Eelam
activists arrested
Eleven pro -
Eelam students were taken into
custody by the police on Wednesday,
as they attempted to forcibly occupy
the Mihin Lanka airline’s corporate
office in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. The
protesters, who had a sit-in at the
Mihin Lanka office, said they wanted
to draw the attention of the Central
government to ‘the plight of Tamils
in Sri Lanka.’ Earlier in the day,
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Special budget pack for Avurudu
season
On the
instructions of President Mahinda
Rajapaksa, the government has
introduced a special budget pack of
essential items to provide maximum
relief to consumers -- while keeping
the prices of essential items under
control during the forthcoming
Sinhala and Tamil New Year season.
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More than two million join SLFP
in a week
The people’s
endorsement of the government’s
efforts to resisit local and foreign
pressures aimed at reversing the
country’s triumph over terrorism,
and retarding progress, is clearly
seen by more than two million people
obtaining membership of the Sri
Lanka Freedom Party, within a single
week, SLFP Secretary General and
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena
said.
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Pakistani Foreign
Secretary tells President:
‘Marked difference’ in Sri Lanka
after the war
During a
courtesy call on President Mahinda
Rajapaksa at the Presidential
Secretariat last morning, Pakistan
Foreign Secretary Jilal Abbas Jilani
told the President that “there is a
marked difference” in Sri Lanka from
when he last visited during the war
in 2005. “There is a peace and
tranquility one feels,” Jilani said,
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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. 
