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Lalith Weeratunga admits:
ITN chairman appointed on Mahinda Rajapaksa’s orders
Former Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga
on Friday (16) publicly acknowledged instructing former Media
Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, to appoint Anura Siriwardena as
chairman of the Independent Television Network (ITN), replacing
well-known media personality Rosmond Senaratne,
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After Sunday Observer report on Pak jet:
India offers fighter jets to SLAF
India has joined the competition to sell Sri
Lanka a new generation of fighter jets for the Air Force, even as
SLAF commander Air Marshal Gagan Bulathsinghala prepares to visit
Pakistan to look at models on offer there. Last week the Sunday
Observer exclusively reported,
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813 guns sans personnel
Navy suspicious about MV Avant Garde’s weapon
haul:
Navy investigators probing the controversial MV
Avant Garde floating armoury detained off the Galle Harbour are
looking into whether the Avant Garde Company had deployed 813
personnel on board various ships that sailed across Sri Lanka to the
Red Sea in the past one year.
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Pillayan’s arrest:
Douglas feels vindicated
A truth seeking process is a necessity to
rectify the mistakes of the past and to apprehend those responsible
for some of the most reprehensible acts including political murders,
Jaffna District MP and Leader of the Eelam Peoples’ Democratic Party
(EPDP), Douglas Devananda said.
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1.39 million litres ethanol smuggled in
Govt to recover Rs 100 m in lost revenue:
Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has
instructed the authorities to initiate measures to recover more than
Rs.100 million losses incurred by the government due to ethanol
being smuggled into the country illegally. The Ministry has
estimated that 1.39 million litres of ethanol had been smuggled into
the country illegally in 2013 and 2014.
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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. 
