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21,000 policemen to be deployed :
Security beefed up for PC polls
Police have finalised security arrangements for
the forthcoming Provincial Council elections to be held on September
8 in the North Central, Eastern and the Sabaragamuwa provinces to
ensure a peaceful election and the post election period, Senior DIG
Administration and Elections, Gamini Navaratne told the Sunday
Observer.
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Sri Lanka and Iran have proved :
Resistance against hegemonic powers possible
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said Iran and Sri Lanka have proved
that resistance against hegemonic powers is possible. At a meeting
with President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah
Khamenei called for closer friendly ties among Muslim nations in a
move to empower them on the international scene and secure wider
interests.
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58th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
parley from Sept 7-15:
‘Ensuring a relevant C’wealth for the future’
The 58th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
(CPA) conference will be held in Sri Lanka from September 7 to 15
under the theme “Ensuring a relevant Commonwealth for the future”.
Nearly 800 delegates from 54 Commonwealth countries will attend the
conference, the biggest event to be held in Sri Lanka since the
three- decade terrorism was eradicated in 2009.
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Lankan asylum seekers in Indonesian custody
Indonesian police are holding 50 Sri Lankan
asylum seekers in custody two days after they were found stranded
and starving in a faulty boat drifting off Sumatra. Fishermen found
them on a vessel with a broken engine and brought them ashore on
Thursday, National Search and Rescue Agency spokesman Gagah Prakoso
told AFP on Saturday,
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SLFP turns 61
Today is the 61st anniversary of the Sri Lanka
Freedom party (SLFP), the main constituent of the ruling United
People’s Freedom Alliance. The SLFP was founded by the late S.R.W.D.
Bandaranaike on September 2, 1951. He became the Prime Minister when
the SLFP formed its first Government by winning the 1956 general
election.
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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. 
