'Bills consistent with Constitution'
[November 16 2010]
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Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa informed Parliament yesterday that the Local Authorities (Special Provisions) Bill and Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Bill meant to reform the existing election laws are consistent with the Constitution. 
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Book launch on President
[November 16 2010]
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A book titled The Dawn of Sri Lanka: The Miracle of Asia-Selected Essays on the Patriotic Legacy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be released in December. The author is Dr Telli C Rajaratnam. 
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Haitians attack UN troops
[November 16 2010]
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Protesters in Haiti who blame United Nations troops for a cholera epidemic that has killed hundreds attacked UN peacekeepers with rocks in two cities on Monday, raising questions about security ahead of presidential elections this month, authorities said.
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Several CWE outlets to be opened
[November 16 2010]
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Twelve Lak Sathosa (CWE) sales outlets, ten Coop Cities and twenty-one Mini Coop cities will be opened islandwide on November 20 and 22 respectively to mark President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second term of office. 
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‘Shell Gas Lanka’ turns into ‘Lithro’
[October 29 2010]
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Government purchased 51% stake of Shell Gas for US $ 63 million taking over Shell Gas Lanka and Shell Terminals a short while ago. Shell Gas will be re branded as ‘Litro Gas’ and Gamini Senarath as been appointed as chairman, government sources said.
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SC rejects Fonseka’s Presidential Election petition
[October 29 2010]
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The five member Supreme Court bench dismissed the petition filed by Sarath Fonseka regarding the Presidential Election short while ago. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition by upholding on a preliminary objection
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Close scrutiny of Korean language test
[October 28 2010] 
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Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) officials have sought Criminal Investigation Department help to prevent malpractices during the Korean Language proficiency test for Sri Lankans seeking jobs in South Korea to be held on Saturday and Sunday.
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Nokia to invest in Lanka
[October 27 2010] 
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Sri Lanka is the most advanced and developed market for mobile handsets among the South Asian countries. Sri Lanka has been utilizing the technical application for the development of mobile subscription as well as for the development of the country through the upgraded living condition of its people, 
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Sri Lanka win rain-affected T20 friendly
[October 27 2010] 
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Sri Lanka tuned up for their Twenty20 and one-day internationals against Australia with a 23-run victory over New South Wales in a rain-affected T20 match in Sydney on Wednesday.
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Check points on way out
[October 27 2010] 
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The Government is considering doing away with all security check points in the Colombo City and a as a first measure the security check point at Galle Road, Bambalapitiya was removed yesterday, Military Spokesman Major General Ubaya Medawala said.
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Korean aid for railways
[October 26 2010] 
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Sri Lanka will receive Korean assistance to develop an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technologies to develop railway transport. Transport Minister Kumar Welgama who attended the seventeenth ITS World Congress, Busan 2010 in Korea last week on the invitation of the Korean Government  said,
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Lanka-Iraq to expand economic cooperation
[October 21 2010] 
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The Iraqi Government will implement a program to extend economic co-operation and relations with Sri Lanka in the near future.  The matter has been discussed at length with the private sector in Iraq said visiting Iraqi Trade Minister Dr Safa Aldin Mohamed addressing the seventh (sessions) meeting of the Sri Lanka-Iraq Economic and Technical Co-operation Council in Colombo today.
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Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith appointed Cardinal 
[October 20 2010] 
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Archbishop of Colombo the Most Rev Dr Malcolm Ranjith has been elevated to the position of Cardinal by His Holiness Pope Benedict the xvi th. He will be anointed as Cardinal by the Pontiff at the Vatican on November 20.
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