Twenty more LG bodies in North go to polls on July 23

Twenty more Local Government bodies that remained defunct in the North for over two decades due to LTTE terrorism will go to the polls on July 23 to re-elect people’s representatives under the UPFA Government’s program to strengthen democracy. Elections will be held for 16 Pradeshiya Sabhas and three Urban Councils in the Jaffna district,

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UPFA polls campaign for LG bodies at village level

The UPFA election campaign for the forthcoming Local Government election is being organised at village level, said Petroleum Industries Minister and UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayantha. The SLFP’s all-island working committee which met at Temple Trees on Thursday expressed its confidence of an easy victory.

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‘No dissension in party’:

TNA leader refutes media reports

TNA leader Rajavarodhayam Sampanthan refuted media reports that dissension was brewing within the party after his recent disclaimer on the party’s ‘sole representative status’ on behalf of the Tamils of the North and the East. Adopting a milder approach, he said that they are now in the process of holding talks with the Government and looked forward to a reasonable solution ‘within a unitary Sri Lanka’.

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Fertiliser subsidy, an investment for the future

The controversial ‘Channel 4 lie’ has been proved and is not a controversy anymore as expected by the LTTE rump but an absolute ‘lie’ about ground realities taking place in Sri Lanka two years ago. Though it claimed it was a masterpiece in investigative journalism,

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Attempts to discredit country at UNHRC sessions shot down:

Sri Lanka vows progress, stability

Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe speaking to the media for the first time after the UN Human Rights Council sessions which ended on June 17, explains how his team crushed premeditated attempts by certain INGOs to discredit Sri Lanka with footage of doctored images,

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