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Customs officers Mali Piyasena (L) and Jayantha Weerasekara show copies of pirated software in Colombo, on friday confiscated at Sri Lanka’s international airport. The haul of CDs including a large number of pornographic VCDs were destroyed as part of a stepped up campaign against pirated sofware. AFP

by ANANTH PALAKIDNAR

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is expected to make a formal announcement on the composition of the Constitutional Council this week, for the creation of the Election Commission and the National Police Commission.
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Grenade attack: 5 killed, 21 hurt

Police are on the trail of a 'service' deserter who had allegedly flung a grenade at a group of people at a political meeting of the United National Front at Vimalasara Gunnalankkara Road, Kohuwela on Friday. Five people including a woman died after being admitted to the Colombo South Hospital with 21 others injured, a police spokesman told the Sunday Observer.
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