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Army Commandos were part of the parade among service personnel that marched past the dais when President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga took the Salute at the 57th Independence Day commemoration held on a low key after tsunami on Friday February 4. Pic. by Thilak Perera.

by P. Muttiah

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has decided to appoint a one-man Presidential Commission to inquire into whether there were any lapses on the part of various institutions and departments that are responsible for warning the people on natural disasters.
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PM appeals to public to bear up with delays

Rohan Mathes reporting from Tangalle

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse appeals to the nation to bear-up inevitable shortcomings which may arise in the re-building process, in the aftermath of the tsunami devastation.
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Norwegians discuss common relief mechanism with LTTE

by Ananth Palakidnar

The Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brakstarr and the acting chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Wagen Winkel held discussions with LTTE's political chief S.P. Thamilselvan an issue of setting up a common mechanism to re-build the Tsunami devastated North and East.
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Other Stories

• Fuel prices to remain high

• Japan prioritises aid for tsunami stricken Sri Lanka

• A nation state 57 years old

• Essential relief items exempted from duty

• Felicitating music maestro Premasiri Khemadasa

• Coastline trains back on track soon

• Red light on 'porn'

• First Sikh to head Indian Army

• CPC tsunami losses top Rs. 50m

• Tsunami aid flows through harbour

• More than Rs. 400m for industrial villages

• Finance Ministry for transparency in NGO projects

• Sunday Observer - SLFI lecture series : Constitution does not guarantee economic rights

• India gifts homeopathic medicines

• Cultural Ministry to preserve land for tsunami monuments

• Dutch tourists to donate fishing boats

• Rs. 600m to rebuild southern roads

• Some 104 houses to be completed in June

• Partly damaged hotels sanctioned for reconstruction

• Korea pledges US$15m

• Planned cities imperative today

• Goes to jail on contract

• Teachers urge donors to bypass officials

• Some 8,500 housing units for tsunami victims in Galle district

• Tsunami victims lament apathy of officials

• Entrepreneurs call for construction plans from TAFREN

• Action against inactive officials

• ICT facilities for tsunami victims

• Japanese aid to de-mine

• Greek floating hospital in SL

• 'Unite to rebuild common future'

• Appeals

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