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A fire claimed the lives of four persons, including two brothers aged six and 11, when the van in which they were travelling caught fire near the Elamodhara Bridge on the Kalutara-Horana road in the early hours of yesterday.

The vehicle was driven by father of the dead children. He survived with burn…

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Major General Shavendra Silva - Deputy Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations has been selected to the Special Advisory Group on Peace Keeping Operations established by the UN Secretary General to advise on rates of reimbursement to troop-contributing countries and related…

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Legendary Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Thursday slammed his country's sacking of Australian coach Geoff Marsh as "disgraceful" and "unprofessional".

Marsh was this week replaced by South African Graham Ford. The move followed Tillakaratne Dilshan quitting the captaincy on Monday. Former skipper Mahela…

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The Movement for People’s Struggle (MPS), a breakaway faction of the JVP, said today that the devolution of land and police powers or the implementation of the 13th Amendment plus would not resolve the national question.

PMS member Pubudu Jayagoda, who was in the politburo of the JVP at that time, said that his political…

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Former Exam Chief strikes discordant note

Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake yesterday claimed that he had wanted Prof. R. O. Thattil on the panel of experts which introduced a new Z score formula combining the results of old and new syllabuses at the last GCE (A/L), but…

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UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday said that the party never discussed, at any level, action against Sirasa Media Network or any other media outfit.The parliamentarian stressed that the UNP wouldn’t interfere with the media, while reiterating their commitment to a vibrant media. The MP was responding…

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National Transport Commission (NTC) Chairman Shashi Welgama yesterday said he was resigning from the NTC to focus on other interests in the midst of charges by private bus operators who claimed that Welgama had chosen to resign as he was unfit for the position.

Welgama told the Daily Mirror he was leaving the NTC to focus on…

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A tense situation was reported from the Magazine Prison in Welikada. The sound of gun fire was heard from the prison premises, a reporter said

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The fire brigade has been called in, while initial reports from the prison say that inmates of the Magazine Prison had set a building on fire following a…

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26 inmates, 5 jail guards injured

Thirty one including five jail guards and 26 inmates were injured yesterday at the Welikada New Magazine prison in a bloody clash.

The injured had been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital, prison sources said.

Hospital sources…

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Geneva confab on alleged war crimes:

Sri Lanka was not invited to a recent roundtable conference held under the auspices of the UN in Geneva, where a key member of UNSG Ban Ki-moon’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on accountability in Sri Lanka, Prof. Steven Ratner reiterated the demand for an…