TMVP’s Charan to be extradited
Main suspect in Raviraj’s murder:
CID establishes complicity:
The Colombo Chief Magistrate has issued an arrest warrant on
Sivakanthan Vivekanandan alias Charan, who had migrated to
Switzerland, and plans are underway to have him urgently extradited
on the basis of his serious involvement in the killing of TNA
Parliamentarian,
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Gota refutes Ranil’s claims
Denies ‘white flag’ to save Puleethevan’s life as
return favour:
Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa denied his government
organized the controversial ‘white flag’ scene to save head of the
LTTE peace Secretariat at the time, S.Puleethevan, during the final
stages of the Eelam War IV.
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32,000 duty free vehicle permits:
Govt. loses Rs. 147.3b in revenue
The more than 32,000 duty free vehicle permits given to senior State
sector employees, Parliamentarians and Provincial Council members
since 2012 have cost the government Rs 147.3 billion in revenue.
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PM intervenes:
Estate pay deal revives industry
The plantation industry is likely to revert to normal production
after months of suspense over workers’ pay demands following a deal
fixed with an intervention last week by Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremesinghe.
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No survivors
Russian plane crashes in Egypt with 224
passengers:
Family members of Russian passengers believed to have been on board
a plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula arrived at Pulkovo
airport in St. Petersburg on Saturday, following the official
declaration of no survivors.
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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. 
