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‘Interrogation on LTTE network continues’:
Dialogue with Tamil diaspora:
No special treatment for KP - Defence Secretary
Whilst refuting claims that the government is
grooming the detained LTTE leader Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias
Kumaran (KP) to be the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, the
Government said it was exploring his ‘data base’ on the LTTE to
crush its international network.
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Lanka’s role in Israel committe has no bearing on UN panel - Dr.
Kohona
Sri Lanka’s role in the UN committee on Israel
has a history of over 30 years and has no bearing on the UN advisory
panel on the country, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN
Dr. Palitha Kohona told Sunday Observer. Dr.Kohona who was in Sri
Lanka on a brief visit left yesterday for New York.
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245,000 students to sit GCE (AL) exam
Two-hundred-and-forty-five thousand students
will sit the GCE (Advanced Level) examination this year. Of the
total number, 170,000 candidates are school applicants. A higher
number of students have applied to sit the examination from the
Colombo, Gampaha, Kandy, Galle and Kurunegala districts.
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No hike in bus fares, says NTC chief
The National Transport Commission (NTC) under no
circumstances will permit an increase in the minimum bus fare from
Rs. 6 to Rs. 7 at this stage, yielding to the demands of a handful
of bus operators, National Transport Commission (NTC) Chairman Sashi
Welgama told the Sunday Observer.
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Sharp increase in tourist arrivals
There was a 50 percent increase in the number of
tourist arrivals in the country during the first five months of the
year. “If this trend continues there will be around 600,000 tourists
this year, a 30 percent increase compared to last year,
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President Maithripala Sirisena is in Thailand making a three-day official visit and attending the second Asia Cooperation Dialogue Summit. The Dialogue Summit that brings together 34 nations in the Asian region takes place from October 8 -10 in Bangkok under the theme "One Asia, Diverse Strength".
Official level discussions have commenced between Sri Lanka and Iran on reviving trade agreements that were signed between the two countries and will be put into operation soon after ironing out technicalities, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Rishad Bathiudeen said. 
Pakistan on Friday (September 30) officially postponed the 19th SAARC Summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 9 and 10. A new set of dates for holding the Summit will be announced soon through the Chair of SAARC (Nepal), reports said. 
Due to the prevailing drought, water levels of the main reservoirs have dropped to half its capacity, with authorities warning that drastic measures may need to be taken if water is to be continuously released from the reservoirs for power generation. 
To avert a possible dengue outbreak in the next three months, when the number of mosquito breeding sites are likely to surge with the monsoon rains, the Dengue Control Unit of the Health Ministry will launch an island-wide Dengue Control Week starting on Tuesday, September 27 to Monday, October 3.
Sir Richard Jolly, former Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, and Special Adviser to the Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (1996 to 2000), and Principal Coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report will deliver a lecture on, “Development: Can Sri Lanka be a model for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs)?” on September 28 at 5 pm at the BMICH Committee Room D, on the invitation of the Gamani Corea Foundation. 
Richmondite Charith Asalanka joined the elite band of school cricketers by winning the coveted Schoolboy Cricketer Of The Year 2016 title for the second year in succession emulating the feats of former Sri Lankan greats Arjuna Ranatunga, 1980/82' ( Ananda) Roshan Mahanama, 1983/84'(Nalanda) Thilan Samaraweera 1994/95' ( Ananda) 'Lahiru Peiris 2004/2005 (St.Peter's) and Bhanuka Rajapaksa 2010'2011 (Royal) who had also won the award twice .
Cricketing legend and former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene will grace the occasion at the 38th Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year awards night scheduled to take place at the Galadari Hotel on September 20. 
Stern action will be taken against traders who sell sugar above the controlled price of Rs. 95. Instructions have been given to the relevant authorities to launch island-wide search operations, a press communique from the Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake said. 
Refuting speculations, Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said, no decision has been taken to impose power cuts on account of the current dry spell in the country. 
