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Following President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s
invitation:
Indian PM due here on State visit
Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is to
make an official State visit to Sri Lanka on an invitation by Sri
Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. This high profile visit on
bilateral level will be the first one by an Indian Head of State
after Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s visit 24 years ago in 1987.
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Boost for trade and tourism:
Indo-Lanka ferry service resumes
The much-awaited Indo-Lanka ferry service will
resume operations from tomorrow from Tuticorin, with India’s Union
Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan flagging off the vessel Scotia Prince.
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Speedy solution to national question:
Devananda advocates Select Committee
Minister Douglas Devananda presented a proposal
to President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the visiting Indian delegation
that a Parliamentary Select Committee be appointed to find a speedy
solution to the national question in the country.
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Errant beverage manufacturers beware:
New Food Act from July 1
The Health Ministry has warned cordial and
beverage manufacturers countrywide to be careful when printing the
date of production, the date of expiry and the ingredients used in
the beverage on the label of the product from July 1.
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Polls in 64 LG bodies on July 23
Elections for 64 Local Government bodies of the
remaining 67 will be held on July 23. Elections Commissioner Mahinda
Deshapriya postponed the election of three Local Government bodies
in Chilaw, Muhudubadapattu and Pudukudiiruppu.
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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. 
