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Potter Mania: J.K. Rowling’s pint-sized hero made a grand return to selected bookstores worldwide yesterday, with his latest adventure ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’. And local Potter fans, eager not to miss out on the action, braved last morning’s torrential downpour to be part of the simultaneous worldwide launch at GMT 0000 hours - 5.00 a.m. local time at Vijitha Yapa Book Shop. Potter fans young and old worldwide have already booked 14 million copies of the 255,000-word book, the fifth in the Potter series. 1,100 of the 2000 copies ordered for Sri Lanka have also been booked. J.K. Rowling is credited with introducing the joys of reading to a whole generation of children, with her Harry Potter series. Picture shows two eager fans with their prized possession. Inset - The long queue outside the bookstore  Pic. Chinthaka Kumarasinghe

Mahanayaka Thera to visit Jaffna

by E. Weerapperuma and our Batticaloa Corr.

In a path-breaking initiative, the Most Venerable Udugama Buddharakhitha Thera, Mahanayaka of the Asgiriya Chapter, visits Jaffna later this week, in the first visit to the Peninsula by a Mahayanaka Thera in thirty years.
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Govt. wants more SLMM monitors

The government is expected to make a formal request to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission to play a more active role in sea operations and have monitors on board all SL Navy vessels at all times.
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Ban on health sector strikes?

by Shanika Sriyananda

The Government is considering to implement new legislations to ban trade union actions especially in healthcare sector, following numerous requests by the public, who are victimised by the frequent strikes.
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• Journeying together

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