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Aruruddha's air bill Despite repeated requests to settle air fares of former Deputy Defence Minister Anuruddha Ratwatte from Colombo to Teldeniya, the Air Force is considering to write it off as a `bad debdt'. According to Air Force sources, Ratwatte had to be air lifted to Teldeniya from his hospital bed in Colombo to attend courts at Teldeniya over the Udathalawinna massacre of ten youth on the General Election day last December 5. The billing is for Rs. 500,000. Death fast abandoned A death fast by LTTE detainees in Batticaloa prison ended on Thursday after Port Development, Shipping, Eastern Development and Muslim Cultural Affairs Minister Rauf Hakeem intervened and discussed their problems. Minister Rauf hakeem promised the fasting LTTE suspects who were protesting their prolonged detention that he would take the matter up immediately with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The three-day fasting carried out by the 36 prisoners was abandoned after Minister Hakeem made this promise and persuaded them to drink water as a sign of breaking the fast. A/L Exam tomorrow The GCE (A/L) Examination will commence tomorrow (22) at 1,769 centres islandwide including the North and East.It will end on May 18. A total of 261,033 sit for this year's examination, of which 227,067 are from schools and 33,966 private candidates. There will be 258 co-ordinating centres. President to visit India President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga will visit India this week to deliver Madhawa Rao memorial lecture in New Delhi on an invitation extended to her. While in India, the President is due to meet Indian Prime Minister Atal Beharee Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh and Opposition Leader Sonia Gandhi. No leaded petrol from July In a bid to arrest environmental pollution resulting from the noxious fumes of motor vehicles run on leaded petrol, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) in response to the government's 100-day programme, has decided to ban marketing leaded petrol from end of June this year. The CPC has modified its refineries to remove the lead additives from the petrol marketed locally and make available two other varieties of unleaded petrol from end June. Clarification The headline 'Coir-tex exports threatened' in our page 1 'In Brief' column of April 14 did not refer to any specific brand of product which may have a similar name but rather to coir-based textiles which come under the technical definition 'goe-tex'. Any confusion is regretted. Ananda does well at GCE (O/L) Students of Ananda Vidyalaya have done well at the G.C.E.(O/L) examination held in December 2001. According to the results released recently, 450 out of 454 students who sat for the examination for the first time, will be eligible to pursue higher studies. Twenty four students have obtained A passes for all the 10 subjects they offered. |
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