UPFA victory at LG polls, a certainty

Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said that the Government would definitely win all Municipal Councils including the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) at the forthcoming Local Government polls due to the vast development carried out by the Government in the cities and the utmost confidence reposed by the people on President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Ensuring security in the region

New Delhi was embroiled in terror with the bomb explosion at the High Court that took 11 lives and injured over 60 people early this week. The attack, which took place in broad daylight at the heart of the capital’s administrative complex, was the sixth serious terrorist attack that occurred since November 2008.

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National Sports Policy activated:

Better times for sports in international arena

We are in the process of formulating a national sports policy and will envisage that we can then get back on track in the next one or two years. We have commenced a program to financially assist athletes. Now, when an athlete comes to national level, he tries to earn money. They appear in advertisements or go to a foreign country to do various sports or if it is cricket they play for foreign clubs. Now it’s a question of money being the prime mover.

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