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Defence Secretary tells Tamil diaspora:
Don’t be misled by unscrupulous elements
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that
expatriate Tamils living abroad should look way forward in the
reconstructing and development process in the country instead of
being misled by unscrupulous elements which are trying to
destabilise the peaceful atmosphere in the country.
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EPDP confident of victory if Court upholds application
UPFA constituent Eelam People’s Democratic Party
(EPDP) leader and Jaffna district MP Minister Douglas Devananda
expressed confidence that they would win a majority of the 16 Local
Government bodies in the Jaffna district,
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GAs to ensure uninterrupted relief:
Floods hit over 836,000 people in 17 districts
Over 836,000 people in 17 districts were
affected by the floods in different parts of the country said
Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera. Dry rations and
other supplies have been made available to the flood victims through
the Government,
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UK and Australia to share visa centre
The UK Border Agency and Australia’s Department
of Immigration and Citizenship will share the current UK visa
application centre in Colombo, from February 8 a media release from
the British High Commission said.
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Schoolchildren to help grow coconut saplings
The `One Coconut Sapling in each Home Garden’
program, which was initiated by the Coconut Development and the
Janatha Estates Development Board Ministry (CDJEDB) to uplift the
standard of the coconut industry will be launched shortly with the
assistance of schoolchildren of coconut growing regions in the
country.
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The Sri Lanka Air Force has has deployed a Bell 212 helicopter and a fire engine to extinguish a fire broke out in the Mihintale Forest Reserve. 
A bag containing a body of a baby was found dumped on the road in Thalangama last evening by an employee of Kaduwela Municipal Council, the police said.
At least 28 passengers were injured when a private bus bound for Matale from Colombo toppled in Karandeniya area last evening, the police said.
Two were killed and over 70 others sustained injuries when a bus transporting school children fell into a precipice in Seetha Eliya in Nuwara Eliya this afternoon, police said.
A law student of the Open University Colombo who stabbed a female lecturer was arrested by Mirihana Police today.The student who is also a medical doctor is said to have stabbed his lecturer when the latter had refused to accept his assignment after the due date, police said.
Royal won the second leg by beating Trinity 13 points (one goal and two penalties) to 9 (three penalties) in the second leg of the 69th Bradby Shield encounter played at Royal rugby grounds this evening. Trinity led 6-3 at half time. 
North Western Provincial Council member Ananda Sarath Kumara had been arrested for punishing a female teacher by forcing her to kneel down, for advising his daughter over a disciplinary matter.
A Lieutenant Colonel and a Corporal attached to the Commando Regiment died while a Major sustained injuries when the Land Rover they were travelling in crashed in to an electricity tower along Thabbowa Tank in Karuwalagaswewa area this morning.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared opened the reconstructed Iranamadu airstrip in Killinochchi a short while ago. 
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the Commander in Chief of Armed Forces, have appointed Major General Daya Rathnayake as the new Army Commander. 
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed the present Army Chief General Jagath Jayasuriya as the new Chief of Defence Staff with effect from August 01, Presidential Spokesman Mohan Samaranayake, said. 
A 45-year-old man who fell off the fifth storey of an apartment block in Kirulapona succumbed to his injuries last evening, the police said. The victim named Jayapalan, an electrician by profession was attempting to fix an antenna on the fifth storey when he had fallen to his death. 
The Iranamadu runway in Killinochchi will be declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa tomorrow.Reconstructed by the Sri Lanka Air Force the runway will be open for all domestic aviation activities.
