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  • Over appointment of new IGP
    Two senior DIGs opt to retire
    Two of the most senior DIGs in the police are expected to send in their retirement papers over the appointment of Senior DIG Lucky Kodituwakku to succeed IGP W.B. Rajaguru who retires on August 31, high ranking police sources said.

    ``They got their papers signed by the outgoing IGP on Friday and are expected to submit them to the Defence Secretary on Monday,'' a senior police source said yesterday.

    The two Senior DIGs concerned are Messrs. Kingsley Wickramasuriya (Intelligence and VIP Security) and Gamini Gunwardene (Crimes and Criminal Intelligence). Well informed sources said that these two DIGs and three others are senior to the new IGP. (full story)

  • Upali Newspapers to help Kobbekaduwa Trust
    Every monetary donation contributed towards making a soldier's life easier is a small appreciation of his supreme sacrifice. The thousands of soldiers who lose their limbs in the war do not want the country to forget them - or, the horrors they have gone through for the sake of national security. "Sadly, however, most people in Colombo haven't a clue about the agonies soldiers have to undergo," noted Chairperson of the Lt. General Denzil Kobbekaduwa Trust, Lali Kobbekaduwa. Through her work on behalf of the trust, Mrs. Kobbekaduwa has come into contact with and been touched deeply by the tales of woe of our soldiers. She feels that more awareness needs to be spread about the travails of these men and women, on and off the battlefields. (full story)
  • Legalising homosexuality
    More pressing problems to resolve -- GL
    Justice Minister G. L. Peiris said on Friday that there are more presssing problems the government has to resolve than consider whether homosexuality should be legalised.

    He was responding to a question at Friday’s cabinet press briefing whether the government would legalise homosexuality. (full story)

  • Sri Lanka drifting towards 'dictatorial administration' - Vasudeva
    Mr. Vasudeva Nanayakkara, the firebrand LSSP MP, Wednesday expressed clear unhappiness over the government decision to postpone the provincial council elections and said that Sri Lanka was drifting towards a "dictatorial administration." (full story)
  • Death threats from Devananda, alleges Jaffna District MPs
    Three Jaffna District MPs have complained against EPDP leader, Douglas Devananda, to President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Deputy Defence Minister Anuruddha Ratwatte, one of them alleging that he had been threatened with death.

    The MPs have accused Devananda who chairs the Jaffna District Development Council of acting dictatorially. One of them, Dr. I.M. Iliyas of the SLMC, has alleged that the EPDP leader had threatened him with death. (full story)

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  • People and Events
  • Ravaya apologises to Sivali Ratwatte
    The Ravaya newspaper has in this week's issue expressed its deep regret to Dr. Sivali Ratwatte, the Chairman of the Upali Group, over its report of Sept. 10, 1995, under the headline ``Divaina mudalali's arms business exposed.''

    In its ``clarification of facts and expression of regret'' statement, Ravaya admitted that its report was baseless and agreed that all editorials and articles written by them on the basis of that report would be withdrawn. (full story)

  • Sri Lanka welcomes anti-terrorist bill in UK
    Sri Lanka Saturday welcomed the British government's proposal to take measures against international terrorism.

    "It's an important step in the right direction," the foreign ministry's legal advisor, Dr. A. Rohan Perera told The Island yesterday. "We have been asking for this," (full story)

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  • Lankan accused of killing employer in Italy
    Foreign Ministry in extradition dilemma
    The extradition of a Sri Lankan domestic accused of killing his employer in Milan in March this year awaits certain arrangements between Colombo and Rome as the authorities here are tied down to a treaty between Britain and Italy signed before Independence, senior officials said. (full story)
  • Sri Lankan expatriates write to UK PM Blair
    Two Sri Lankan expatriate groups have written to Prime Minister Tony Blair, following the bomb explosion in Omagh, Northern Ireland, reminding him that the British government is still allowing the LTTE branch in London to operate and to collect funds for the LTTE. (full story)
  • Group of prominent citizens oppose postponement of PC Elections
    A group of prominent citizens has expressed its concern about the imposition of the all-island emergency to postpone the Provincial Council elections, which it says is unwarranted and has clearly been taken for partisan political reasons. It has called upon all citizens of the country to write to the President demanding that the democratic rights and freedoms be upheld by holding the elections without delay. (full story)
  • Army Training College inaugurated
    "Specialised training provided by colleges such as the one inaugurated will no doubt help establishing a peaceful country in the very near future," said President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumara-tunga at the inauguration of the Army Command and Staff Training College (ACSTC) on Friday. (full story)
  • Laksala exhibits "Masks of Sri Lanka"
    "Masks of Sri Lanka", an exhibition organized by Laksala, and the Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board, set up under the Ministry of Vocational Training and Rural Industries, is one of the strategies adopted by them in order to promote their products. However the exhibition will also consist of products belonging to other talented handicraftsmen apart from those belonging to Laksala. (full story)

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