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49 per cent of opinion survey reveals
Devolution package will not end conflict
Approximately forty nine percent (49%) of a sample group of a Public Opinion Survey, do not believe that the proposed devolution of powers by the government will help solve the on-going terrorist conflict in the country, revealed the Head of the Department of Sociology of the Peradeniya University, Prof. S. T. Hettige.(full story)

General Anuruddha Ratwatte, the Deputy Defence Minister, photographed with officers and troops at Mankulam after Jayasikuru troops wrested the town from the LTTE which had fiercely defended it over a period of months. - (Government Information Department photos by Sudath Silva).

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BUSINESS

SPORTS

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