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	Sunday 24th January 1999   Vol. 1 No. 86

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Pockets of tension but situation generally calm Curfew if needed once poll closes Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake yesterday said that a curfew would be declared if necessary once polling closes in the North Western Province which votes tomorrow to elect a new provincial council after a campaign marked by violence leading to the death of two persons.

Old tyre carcasses blaze in the middle of the public highway at Anamaduwa town while security servicemen standby (pic by Sena Widanagamage)

• Ranil's mother counters Chandrika
• Journalists hear shooting
• Boot's on the other foot, he says
  Ronnie denies seeking favours from Chandrika
• Annual Kelaniya Duruthu Maha Perahera begins on Jan. 28
• Sri Lanka to probe Commonwealth Games bribes acusations
• NWP polls results live on Internet
• Island Capers
  The wheel turns
• Director unaware of any such proposal
  Wildlife Society alleges elephant "cull'' in the pipeline
• Complaints galore as poll closes
• Colombo roads suffocated with traffic
• Human values education creates great interest
• Gang disrupts opening
• Ravi will challenge expulsion
• Varsity teachers decry Wayamba violence
• Graphic description of stripping incident
• Customer hopes soar as telecom providers promise to install 200,000 phones this year
• GCE (O/L) practicals commence on Jan. 25
• Book on Psychiatric Aspects of Jataka Stories
• Bonsai Bo Tree

• People and Events
  Memories of the North Western Province
• The autochthon debate
• The Indispensable nation
• A Traveller's Claims - I
  Venture to the Interior
• Sri Lankan memories
• English - Word Phrases
• Surge of intolerance in recent times
• Thumbing noses at transport regulations
• The Lionair Tragedy
  A mother's vain plea for her loving daughter
• Basses reefs - a call for a management regime
• Bookstore with a difference
• Destruction of forest reserve in Seetha-Eliya
• Mango - in the Mahavamsa
• Letters
  

• Poster war dominates NWP polls
  Basic human values set aside at Wayamba
• L E G A L W A T C H
  Will voters' wishes prevail in Wayamba?
• The week that was
  NWP polls
  The PA has a stiff fight on its hands
• Devolution in Sri Lanka
  The North-East Provincial Council, 1988-1990
  This article, by a political activist who was, for a short time, one of the five Ministers of the North-East Provincial Council at the time it was established, is partly a memoir and partly a political analysis of the realities of devolution of power on the Sri Lankan context. It deals with a vitally important phase in India's attempt to mediate in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. The contents of the article reveal the extent of India's pressure and influence in the establishment of the Council, and in the running of its affairs. It also shows how the Chief Minister of the Council was intent on a provocative political agenda which attempted to go well beyond the powers granted to Provincial Councils through the 13th amendment to the 1978 constitution.
• Netanyahu forced into an early general election

• Forgotten Heritage
  Governor North's Palanquin rides
• High fashion
  Wines ... styles and all that spice

• Muralitharan chucking issue
  Executive Committee to meet today
• REFLECTIONS
  Sri Lanka brive all odds
• Campaign against Muralitheran - a conspiracy?
• Royal-Thomian the draw at rowing nationals
• Inter-Plantation Six-a-Side Cricket Tourney
• Bogambara Stadium's shortcomings
• Asking for 'runner'-''honest cheating within the law?"

• Intercontinental owner's share price jumps
  Sudden interest in five star owning company
• Kotagala transfer aftermath
  Lankem's appeal against hefty fine still pending
• Auditors raise questions on bank guarantees
  Colombo Fort Group claims 'phenomenal' profit growth
• Resort hotels expect to do well in 1998/99
  1998 tourist arrivals likely to top 380,000
• Optimistic view by Asia Securities
  All share index to breach 700 by mid-year?
• Coconuts doing nicely
• Indo-Sri Lanka free trade agreement II
• A free market economy needs the rule of law
• SEC requires disclosure on Y2K compliance
• Domestic investors provide a cushion
  Brazilian crisis not likely to hurt us much
• Lanka gears to improve environment management standards
• Unit Trust optimistic about future
  Ceybank takes body blow from share tumble
• Ceybank managers offer schols to unit holders and their children
• CDIC earns Rs. 36.8 mn. in 1998, down from year earlier
• Group hotels under one umbrella
  Aitken Spence Hotels delisting

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