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Beyond imagination! Last month’s floods that wreaked havoc to life and livelihood, may be a thing of the past for the busy urbanite, but not for this little boy and many like him, who overnight became displaced students with no school to call their own. Over 300 schools in the five flood affected districts of Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Kalutara and Ratnapura were destroyed by the accompanying landslides, and 90 were completely washed away. Most students are now being taught in makeshift classrooms. But this little boy who can’t quite believe what has happened to his school - the Lankagama Junior School in Deniyaya, will soon have cause for jubilation when construction work is completed, courtesy a Rs. 10 million donation from ANCL, and Lankagama Junior is converted to a modern model school. (Pic. Saman Mendis.)

by Ananth Palakidnar and S.SELVAKUMAR

Moves to resume the stalled peace talks between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Government with the offer of a new proposal for the North-East interim council is expected to gather momentum with the arrival of former Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Jon Westborg this week.
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Mullaitivu incident : "LTTE violates law of sea"

SLMM: Navy right to intercept

by Our Defence Correspondent

The Navy was right to have intercepted the LTTE supply vessel in the June 14th confrontation at sea off Mullaitivu, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has said in its much-awaited report on the incident.
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IGP urges officers to be alert

by ANTON NONIS

Inspector General of Police, T.E. Anandarajah has warned his men to be extra careful when detailed to serve as Intelligence officers in the police department.
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• Major well-cleaning exercise in the South with German help

• More Wijewardana predictions : Earthquake late 2003 along SW coastal belt

• First Sri Lankan to receive honour : Prestigious award for Prof. Kotagama

• Mannar, Trinco Bishops hopeful : Peace talks will be back on track

• Colombo Bourse records highest turnover

• News in brief

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