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‘UNP, JVP and TNA have no alternative proposals’:
Opposition to PSC deliberations, a setback
National Languages and Social Integration
Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara said that the obstinate refusal of the
TNA, UNP and the JVP to participate in the Parliamentary Select
Committee (PSC) deliberations is a major setback. In a scenario
where the UNP, JVP and TNA should have a more positive attitude
towards the PSC, they are subverting and undermining it,
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‘Lanka, India should join forces to curb LTTE remnants’
Former Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama says
he is pleased that India has recognised the threat posed by the
LTTE, as a terrorist organisation, to India and Sri Lanka as well as
to the rest of the world. Speaking to the Sunday Observer yesterday
in the backdrop of comments made by India’s Defence Minister A.K.
Antony and a Home Ministry official,
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Indian nabbed at BIA with 110 magnet cards
An Indian national who had 110 magnet cards in
his possession to turn out false credit cards was nabbed at the
Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) by sleuths of the Police
Narcotics Bureau (PNB) when he arrived on a flight from Chennai on
Friday around 7.30 pm.
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Government’s four months’ education bill costs Rs 11,000m
The Government has spent Rs. 10,977 million on
education under the general education sector during the first four
months of 2012. Another Rs. 5,737 million have also been expended on
the higher education sector. According to the Mid-Year Fiscal
Position Report 2012,
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Committee to discuss more powers to NPC
A committee to look into the possibility of
giving wider powers to the National Police Commission (NPC) is to be
appointed on the directive of President Mahinda Rajapaksa this week.
NPC Chairman Senaka Walgampaya PC said representatives from the
Attorney-General’s Department, Defence Ministry, Presidential
Secretariat, Treasury, Public Services Commission and the IGP’s
office will make deliberations and finalise a report to the
President within a month.
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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. 
