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The 25th annual Gangarama Navam Perahera got under way yesterday with around 150 elephants and 5,000 dancers participating in the procession. The two-day perahera is scheduled to conclude today. The procession will move along Sir James Peries Mawatha, W. A. D. Ramanayake Mawatha, Udyana Street, Sri Ginarathana Road, Navam Mawatha, SriUttharananda Mawatha and Perahera Mawatha. picture shows Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe placing the casket with the sacred relic of the perahera on Ranaraja, the main tusker at the inauguration of the perahera.  Pic by Ravindra Senaviratne.

Deputy Director of State of the US Government Richard Armitage has urged the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to publicly and unequivocally renounce terrorism and prove that its days of violence are over.
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CID busts customs clearance racket

By Jayampathi Jayasinghe

A massive multi-million rupee customs clearance racket alleged to have been masterminded by an assistant accountant of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, in connivance with several employees of clearing agencies was busted by the CID early this week.
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Evacuation plans finalised

by Don Asoka Wijewardena

Emergency plans to evacuate around 1.6 million Sri Lankans working in the Middle East, have been finalised and the Lankan ambassadors in seven Middle-Eastern countries have been entrusted with the task of taking them to safety and bring them home via sea, land or air, if a full scale war breaks out in the Gulf.
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Government to relax exchange control

Radical and far reaching changes to the existing economic structure are on the cards, with the government all set to abolish the Foreign Exchange Control Act and introduce a new Exchange Management Act; establish an Assets Management Company; create a new Revenue Authority and restructure the Public Service through an ordinance called the Public Management Reform.
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