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Chandrika asks Mangala to join the UNP
Former President Chandrika Kumaratunge it is reliably learnt had requested SLFP (M) Wing Leader Mangala Samaraweera that it was not the time to carry out a lone battle to safeguard the policies of the SLFP and that he should accept UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s invitation and join the UNP.
Apparel workers in tea-time protest
Nearly a thousand apparel workers formed a picket line at the Free Trade Zone area at Biyagama to draw the attention of the Government to the promised monthly wage increase of Rs. 2,500, a senior trade unionist said. ...Jackson paid Rs. 30 million for the cultural show at the ceremony held to fill water into the Hambantota Port
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has decided to pay Rs. 30 million to Jackson Anthony after handing his propaganda company, Helanka, the cultural show at the ceremony to be held on August 1 to fill the Hambantota Port with water. ...Basil asks for stories to be published that Dhanuna is being hidden in the US embassy premises in Colombo
Minister Basil Rajapaksa has asked Divaina reported Keerthi Warnakulasuriya and a female journalist at Lake House to publish stories saying that General Sarath Fonseka’s son-in-law Dhanuna Thilekaratne is being kept inside the US embassy premises in Colombo....Wimal Wants People To Surround UN Lanka Office
Minister Wimal Weerawansa says Sri Lankan people should surround the UN office in Colombo and keep its staff inside until UN chief Ban Ki Moon decides to dissolve the three-member advisory panel he appointed on Sri Lanka. ...CMC elections UPFA to filed Omar, UNP to field Musammil
The President has already decided to filed Omar Kamil as the UPFA’s main candidate at for the Colombo Municipal Council during the local government elections. ...General Forms New Party
Elections Commissioner's Department sources say General Sarath Fonseka has submitted an application to form his own party. ...Johnston & Lakshman To Testify At Court Martial
UNP Parliamentarian Lakshman Seneviratne is ready to give evidence before the first Court Martial against Gen. Sarath Fonseka. Consumer Affairs Minister Johnston Fernando will also give evidence on General's alleged involvement in political work while in active service. ...JSS head at Lake House receives death threats from security committee
The Lake House Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya (JSS) Secretary Sanjeewa Samarasinghe has decided to resign from the institution following the continuous threats and harassments by the heads at Lake House. ...DEW informs that he would not attend meetings that would be chaired by Namal
Prisons and Rehabilitation Minister D.E.W. Gunasekera has said that he would hereafter not attend any meeting that would be chaired by parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa in place of the President. ...
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- Jackson paid Rs. 30 million for the cultural show at the ceremony held to fill water into the Hambantota Port
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