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To invoke
blessings for global peace:
Sangha from 30 countries gather
in Colombo
A blessings
ceremony by a world Sangha
congregation for global peace to
mark the 2600th anniversary of the
Buddha’s Enlightenment, began at the
Nelum Pokuna(Lotus Pond) theatre in
Colombo yesterday under the
patronage of President Mahinda
Rajapaksa. Over 500 members of Maha
Sangha from 30 countries joined over
1,000 members of Maha Sangha from
Sri Lanka at the inuagural ceremony
yesterday.
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DEW calls for
stringent accountability:
CID probes urged on COPE issues
Report covers 229
state institutions:
Human Resources
Senior Minister and chairman of COPE
D E W Gunasekara yesterday stated
that he stressed to the Secretaries
of ministries or Chief Accounting
Officers of government institutions,
the need to take legal action or
direct matters to the CID or Bribery
Commission, wherever necessary, in
relation to accountability issues in
state institutions.
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Investors invited to manufacture
drugs locally
Health Minister
Maithripala Sirisena invites local
investors to start drug
manufacturing factories in Sri
Lanka. The government has already
taken steps to facilitate local drug
manufacturers in every possible way,
a Health Ministry spokesman said.
According to the spokesman, the
Cabinet Ministers’ Sub Committee
appointed to look into the issue of
drugs had recommended that drugs
required for Sri Lanka should be
locally produced to avoid drug
shortages.
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Action plan to cope with Climate
Change
The Environment
Ministry will prepare a national
Climate Change adaptation action
plan for Sri Lanka, based on the
National Climate Change Policy and
National Adaptation Strategy,
Environment Minister Anura
Priyadarshana Yapa said.
Participating as the Chief Guest at
the inauguration ceremony of the
regional workshop on
Decentralization and Climate Change
at Hotel Galadari, Colombo,
yesterday Minister Yapa said that
Climate Change is not just an
environment problem. It is a major
problem which is being experienced
in the whole world.
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Pasikudah Tourism
Zone:
Investors given ultimatum
The lands leased
out to the investors in the
Pasikudah Tourism Zone will be taken
over by the government, if they fail
to complete construction by December
31, this year, Acting Media Minister
and Economic Development Deputy
Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena
said yesterday.
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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. 
