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	Sunday 05th March 2000   Vol. 1 No. 145

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Special assignments label to be replaced with portfolios Amunugama and Mathew to take two new ministries

Grieving family members and relatives of the victim woman soldier at the site of the exhumation. The remains of the 24-year-old woman soldier, Inoka Sewanthi Weerasekera were exhumed last Friday. The body was found buried in a three feet deep pit in a four-acre extent of land belonging to a millionaire businessman at Kurukulawa, Ragama. — (Pictures by Mangala Weerasekera)

• Trinco human bomb attack accidental say security officials
• Woman soldier’s killing at Ragama
  Police probe suspect’s involvement in other disappearances
• Tamil parties urge Chandrika, Ranil to co-operate and compromise
• Contemplated sale of 66.7% of Forbes Plantations makes waves
• Rare snake found
• Soldiers in captivity ask govt to negotiate with LTTE
• Four Sinhala organisations oppose Norway mediation and changes to devolution package
• Relatives of missing servicemen plead for return of loved ones
• Shell Gas justifies LPG reduction
• Big names in Lions Fashion Fiesta
• Arms, ammunition found at army deserter’s home
• Lanka gets OPEC funds
• Court restrains Commercial Bank appointment
• Two policemen shot at by LTTE
• Shell Gas continues shelling
• Acupuncture for elephants
• Vehicle with false number plates detected
• UK Child Rights team’s visit to Sri Lanka
• Children stage peace march urging parents not to fight over race and religion
• AFLAC’s candle of hope for cancer patients
• National Forum on Ageing to discuss proposed Elders Bill

• Second Reading budget debate
  Ronnie pats President, warns of danger of political one-upmanship
• LEGAL WATCH
  Re-examining the law relating to elections
• Afganistan under Taliban rule
• Sunday Island Politics
  SB’s newest bomb triggers a chain reaction
• PA and UNP consensus on devolution vital
• Devolution or a different Development
• Whither Sri Lanka? towards integration or disintegration
• The folly of the Eppawala Project proposal
• A book that portrays Independence of the Left

• Secret Talks once again?

• Down memory lane as a reporter
• Blue Black and the Bishops
• Book Review
  In-depth study of literature, society and culture
• The Owl and the Pussycat, Edward Lear
• Used autoparts industry faces breakdown
• Charles Henry de Soysa: A great grand-daughter remembers a legend
• People and Events
  The cartoonist dies but the cartoon continues
• Letters
  

• Rain threatens to disrupt second test
• Hero in the wrong camp
• Bowlers call the tune as one-day cricket hots up
• Thomians hang on in Battle of Kotte
• Rashan (85) put Cambrians in strong position
• The real heroes who emerged at Rawalpindi
• Ruhunu Motor Sports Club Road race
• Century odyssey
• The Mini-Tennis programme in Negombo
  3500 Children to learn tennis
• Big match pitch invasions — "I am totally against it" — Amarasuriya

• Faces vandalism, intimidation and assault from anti-smokers
  Ceylon Tobacco looking at voluntary self-regulation
• Rough house tactics by anti-tobacco activists
• NDB’s 1999 profits down but key indicators promising
• DFCC Vs. Nuwara Eliya Hotels: one case withdrawn, second filed
• Accounts monitoring body begins work
• CDIC looks for more deals like Eagle Insurance takeover
• Budget estimates and performance — I
• The Budget - no way to run public affairs
• Leading stock broker optimistic of captive fund flow into stock market
• Lanka’s first digital minilab installed
• Mackwoods enter computer education field
• Reversed provisions bring Central Securities back to profit
• Seylan sets up new firm to deal in govt. securities
• Import more from Sri Lanka, Kingsley urges Chinese
• Sharp 9-month downturn at Richard Pieris Exports
• Interest and exchange losses swallow Overseas Realty profit
• STOCK MARKET
  For the trading week ended Friday 03rd March 2000

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