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President tells Opposition:
Focus national issues in a wider perspective
Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya
Rambukwella said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his reply
speech to the Budget debate 2014 called upon the Opposition to look
at the national issues as a unified nation irrespective of political
differences. This pragmatic approach by the President has to be
appreciated by one and all,
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National Drug Policy to be implemented in early 2014
Health sources told the Sunday Observer
yesterday that the long- awaited National Medicinal Drug Policy
(NMDP) will be implemented in early 2014. “The final translation of
the draft is underway and it will be ready to be presented in
Parliament when it is completed. There will be no further delays”,
Health Ministry spokesman W.A.D Wanninayake told the Sunday
Observer.
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Fifty fifth UNP Convention held
The 55th Annual convention of the United
National Party was held at its headquarters, Siri Kotha, Pittakotte
yesterday under the leadership of Ranil Wickremesinghe. It was
attended by a large number of party supporters from all electorates
of the country. All leadership council members and front-runners of
the party,
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Ideological extremism raising its ugly head
Ideological extremism – the precursor to
terrorism is raising its ugly head in less than four years after the
defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, an international terrorism expert
warned. Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for
Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore made this observation in the wake of a
number of TNA MPs in parliament and elsewhere making open statements
glorifying terrorist leaders,
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‘Life and death issue’ for the Northern
fishermen:
Effort redoubled to curb poaching
Following repeated protests and mounting
complaints from fishermen in the North over the decade-long poaching
by Indian fishermen and the continued detention in India of a large
number of Sri Lankan fishermen, the Fisheries Ministry has redoubled
its effort to sort out the issue through dialogue with the Indian
Union Government and the Tamil Nadu State government.
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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. 
