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On the mat over alleged fraud A Deputy Director (Commerce) of the Central Province Education Ministry who is alleged to be involved in a fraud of Rs.5,486,443 allocated for teacher training for the years 1999, 2000 and 2001, has been interdicted with immediate effect, Education Ministry sources told the " Sunday Observer". Further investigations and disciplinary action are being conducted by the Education Ministry. Inquiries have revealed that the director had obtained the money by producing the names of teachers who had not attended the training sessions, and dubious payments in the documents presented to the Education Ministry. The inquiries have also revealed that the names of lecturers and officers attached to the universities, the National Institute of Education (NIE), Book Publication Department and Public Administration Ministry had been implicated to carry out the fraud. Biggest press gathering A biggest ever media gathering is expected in Killinochchi in the Vanni region when the press conference organised by the LTTE leader Prabhakaran takes peace this week on April 10. The LTTE has made plans to accommodate more than five hundred journalists both foreign and local, who have confirmed their participation at the press briefing, sources said. The facilities available for journalists attending the press conference include transportation to LTTE held areas, communication and accommodation with food and beverages. The journalists who have obtained the permission from the LTTE to attend the press conference will be subject to thorough checking by the LTTE leader's security unit, sources said.Since Prabhakaran held his first ever press conference in 1990, this is the second time that such a conference is held on April 10. LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham, LTTE's political wing leader S.P. Thamilchelvam and several other senior members will also be present with Mr. Prabhakaran at the briefing. Interpretation facilities in all three languages ,Tamil, Sinhala and English, have also beenmade available, sources said. Factional clash: 3 dead, 10 hurt by ANTON NONIS Security has been tightened with the imposition of a ten-hour police curfew from Friday night, as tension mounted over a factional clash between two groups at Maradana in Beruwala last Friday evening. According to the police, three persons had died and ten others injured in the incident which occurred around 6.30 pm on Friday, over a land dispute between the two groups. Action on ceasefire complaints The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, (SLMM), which oversees the ceasefire, now in operation in the North and East, has announced that it would look into all complaints made so far. A spokesman for the SLMM said that it had received around forty complaints since the inception of the monitoring of the ceasefire in the North and East. |
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