 | Sinhala News Headlines | | |  Lakbima Online 2004-02-21 14:00:07  Lakbima Online 2004-02-21 14:00:11  Lakbima Online 2004-02-21 14:00:13  Lakbima Online 2004-02-21 14:00:14  Lakbima Online 2004-02-21 14:00:15  Lakbima Online 2004-02-21 14:00:16  Lakbima Online 2004-02-21 14:00:18 | | |  | From International News Sources | | | Sri Lanka opens election process BBC Asia 2004-02-17 03:01:10 Nominations open for the 2 April Sri Lankan elections ordered after the president dissolved parliament. | | |
 | Popular Articles | | | I am powerless says Polls Chief Daily Mirror 2004-02-20 03:01:03 Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayaka said yesterday he could only give guidelines to the State media and had no powers to ensure that they maintain the balance during the general elections campaign. Addressing a news conference in Colombo the commissioner said he had made .... | Hakeem hopeful of consensus with UNF Daily Mirror 2004-02-20 03:01:05 By Munza Mushtaq With only a few days left for nominations Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem held two rounds of extensive talks yesterday in a bid to reach a memorandum of understanding. Mr. Hakeem who has been an ally in the UNF government for the past .... | UPF staying with UNF Daily Mirror 2004-02-20 03:01:07 By Kelum Bandara The Upcountry People s Front yesterday decided to contest the forthcoming general election on the UNF ticket in the districts of Kandy Kegalle Puttalam Colombo and Badulla a spokesman said. He said the executive committee of the UPF which took this decision .... | Workers undergoing severe hardships due to high COL - CMU - GWU Daily News Online 2004-02-20 15:00:32 standards of the people continues despite the ceasefire agreement between the Government and the LTTE.This is due to the heaping of the huge debt burden of the war on the masses by indirect taxation like the VAT the CMU claims.Issuing a statement the General Secretary of the CMU Bala Tampoe .... | | | |