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Ambassador
Wickramasuriya invites Washington
young professionals to visit SL:
“TWENTY MILLION SMILES AWAIT
YOU”
*SL, a reconciled
society: Social indicators on human
development high
“Sri Lanka has
many attractions for its visitors,
the best being the twenty million
smiles awaiting to greet you,”
opined Ambassador Jaliya
Wickramasuriya, Sri Lanka’s envoy to
the United States. He highlighted
that Sri Lanka affords a grand array
of interesting and exciting
opportunities for a traveler to
experience in a single visit.
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President only leader who
restored peace – Vanni SLFP
organizer
Reveals true
character of TNA to Indian MPs:
President
Mahinda Rajapaksa is the only leader
who brought peace, freedom and
harmony to Sri Lanka by eradicating
terrorism. The allegations by the
Tamil National Alliance (TNA)
targeting the President and the
present government cannot be
accepted, Vanni and Kilinochchi
districts SLFP organiser Geethanjali
Naguleshwaran said.
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Nation ready to celebrate
Sinhala and Hindu New Year
The entire
nation is gripped in a festive
atmosphere with cities filled with
last minute shoppers as the vast
majority prepares to celebrate the
dawn of a New Year tomorrow, the
fourth Sinhala and Hindu New Year
celebrated in an environment of
peace. Last minute shopping was
witnessed in many cities in the
country yesterday too as thousands
milled the streets with urgency and
enthusiasm.
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Sri Lanka, a ‘really fantastic
country with very great people’ -
Palestinian Religious Affairs
Minister
Palestinian
Minister of Religious Affairs Dr.
Mahmoud Al-Habbash called on
President Mahinda Rajapaksa at
Temple Trees yesterday. One of the
main topics discussed during the
meeting was the importance of
religious tolerance. Speaking about
his first visit to the island, Dr.
Al-Habbash said Sri Lanka is a “very
fantastic country with very great
people.”
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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. 
