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‘Interrogation on LTTE network continues’:
Dialogue with Tamil diaspora:
No special treatment for KP - Defence Secretary
Whilst refuting claims that the government is
grooming the detained LTTE leader Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias
Kumaran (KP) to be the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, the
Government said it was exploring his ‘data base’ on the LTTE to
crush its international network.
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Lanka’s role in Israel committe has no bearing on UN panel - Dr.
Kohona
Sri Lanka’s role in the UN committee on Israel
has a history of over 30 years and has no bearing on the UN advisory
panel on the country, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN
Dr. Palitha Kohona told Sunday Observer. Dr.Kohona who was in Sri
Lanka on a brief visit left yesterday for New York.
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245,000 students to sit GCE (AL) exam
Two-hundred-and-forty-five thousand students
will sit the GCE (Advanced Level) examination this year. Of the
total number, 170,000 candidates are school applicants. A higher
number of students have applied to sit the examination from the
Colombo, Gampaha, Kandy, Galle and Kurunegala districts.
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No hike in bus fares, says NTC chief
The National Transport Commission (NTC) under no
circumstances will permit an increase in the minimum bus fare from
Rs. 6 to Rs. 7 at this stage, yielding to the demands of a handful
of bus operators, National Transport Commission (NTC) Chairman Sashi
Welgama told the Sunday Observer.
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Sharp increase in tourist arrivals
There was a 50 percent increase in the number of
tourist arrivals in the country during the first five months of the
year. “If this trend continues there will be around 600,000 tourists
this year, a 30 percent increase compared to last year,
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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. 
