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Govt renews challenge to NDF presidential
candidate:
‘Disclose agreement with TNA’ - Wimal Weerawansa
The Government yesterday renewed its challenge to
New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka to
disclose the agreement he has reached with the Tamil National
Alliance (TNA). “The Opposition presidential candidate has not yet
disclosed this agreement to the country.
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Weaponry ordered after 2006 helped war victory - Former Navy
Chief
Former Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha
Karannagoda in an interview with the Sunday Observer said that the
new military equipment bought during the Mahinda Rajapaksa
administration greatly contributed to the May 2009 war victory.
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Second mandate for development, prosperity - President
Addressing a massive public gathering in Mannar
yesterday, President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured the Northern public
that he would remain committed to strengthen and sustain ongoing
development in the North to usher a better future for them, after
obtaining a bigger second mandate at the January 26 Presidential
poll.
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TNA’s support for Fonseka ‘conditional’ - Sampanthan
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R.
Sampanthan said the TNA has decided to support Sarath Fonseka as he
had agreed with the TNA’s conditions to re-merge the Northern and
the Eastern Province dismantling high security zones and giving a
permanent solution to the Tamil people.
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President to receive rousing welcome in Jaffna
Jaffna will accord a warm welcome for President
Mahinda Rajapaksa today, informed sources said. President Rajapaksa
who is on his campaign trail will arrive in Jaffna this morning and
address the rally at the Duraiappah Stadium, the sources said.
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The visiting foreign Minister of Seychelles Jean Paul Adams and Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris held bi-lateral discussions at the Foreign Ministry this evening.
Sri Lanka registered a superb 35 (five goals) points to 10 (one goal and one penalty) victory over Singapore in their Asian Five Nations Rugby Division 1 tournament match played at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines today.
Two Thai women who were pretending pregnant mothers, were apprehended while attempting to smuggle 162 cocaine tablets. 
The Government decision to increase the import tax on motor vehicles was aimed at controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the vehicle fleet of the country as excessive number of vehicles have been imported to the country during the past three years, Acting Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today. “We had no other intention behind this move other than controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the road network”, the Minister said.
The Catholic Church today appealed to the President to halt any amendments leading to relax existing Abortion Law of the country, cautioning that such measures would aggravate the social issue and deprive children of their right to life. 
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported Wednesday night that the new head of the government’s Socialist Left party (SV) has ousted veteran SV politician and former party leader Erik Solheim as the government minister in charge of both environmental and foreign aid issues.
The Department of Wildlife and Conservation (DWLC) has launched an investigation why the army shot two wild elephants in Bundala yesterday. According to environmentalists one jumbo was shot in the head and the other sustain similar gun shot injuries.
The Sri Lankan delegation, who left the country Wednesday to attend the 19th session of the United Nations Human Right Council in Geneva, Switzerland, says they have a well-organized plan to counteract the arguments against Sri Lanka.
Eight Indian fishermen from Keechankuppam fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam district sustained injuries in an alleged mid-sea attack by Lankan fishermen at midnight on Tuesday.
The UK still believes that a process led in Sri Lanka is better than one led internationally, said the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Alistair Burt, participating in a debate on the situation in Sri Lanka in the House of Commons yesterday (22).
In a new boost to Sri Lanka’s geo-textile industry and Sri Lanka’s standing as world’s largest exporter of coir fibre, a top US government agency has cleared the way for Sri Lankan made geo-textiles for two projects. 
