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Seven vital points for peace talks from government Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 12:14 AM SL Time President Mahinda Rajapaksa has forwarded seven important concerns to be discussed at the peace talks, to the co-chairs representatives yesterday at the meeting held at temple trees. `So far the talks were centred to the periphery of Ceasefire Agreement, number of participants etc. but not the substantial or core issues. I think it is high time now of this 23 years old war and the number of discussions held so far, to concern more on these critical issues,` Defense spokesperson, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said at the weekly media briefing at Media Centre for National security held today. Hence, President forwarded seven core issues to the co-chairs representatives that should be taken up at the peace talks, minister said. As Minister Rambukwella explained the core issues for discussions are as follows. 
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Tamil parties say people `living like slaves` in Sri Lanka`s uncleared areas Tuesday, 10 October 2006 - 5:08 AM SL Time Leaders of the three main anti-LTTE Tamil political parties - TULF, PLOTE and EPRLF (Pathmanaba Group) - have urged India to play a role in Sri Lanka`s ethnic crisis, stressing that those living in LTTE areas are `living like slaves` and need to be liberated. After the conclusion of their weeks-long tour in India, V. Anandasangaree, D. Sitharthan and T. Sritharan, representing the TULF, PLOTE and EPRLF (Pathmanaba Group) respectively, said, 'We are convinced that India has a role to play and peace cannot be achieved without Indian advice and guidance. Being the world`s largest democracy and in very close proximity to Sri Lanka, India has a moral duty to do so. Hence the visit to New Delhi became necessary.
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The government yesterday banned the import of remote controlled toys Tuesday, 10 October 2006 - 4:51 AM SL Time The government yesterday banned the import of remote controlled toys, fearing they could be used as improvised explosive devices. Defence Ministry Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa announced in a newspaper advertisement that aircraft or any flying devices were totally banned from importation under the new regulations. However the regulations limit the frequency radius of ground and water toys (cars and jeeps) to ten metres. According to the advertisement any such remote controlled toys being imported must be approved by the Defence Ministry and importers have to submit the unit and its operating manual for compliance checks, due to the current security situation in the country. Meanwhile, a senior Defence Ministry official told the Daily Mirror that any person importing such toys to Sri Lanka without proper approval from the Ministry would have to surrender the toy to the Customs at the airport.
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Bomb goes off in van Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:49 AM SL Time Three people were killed and three injured when a claymore bomb trapped in a Van ripped off near a house at Punthottam in Vauniya. A three wheeler was also destroyed in the blast, said Dinasena Ratugamage reporting the incident to Sandesaya from Vavunia. The headquarters inspector,Vavuniya , Kumar Sandanayake said this van was taken into custody by Vauniya police on September 25. The van was released today after a court order given on Monday. HQI, Sandanayake said following the investigation into the blast they have established that it was the same vehicle they arrested on September 25. The van was parked near the home of the owner when the bomb went off destroying the house. Vavuniya police are conducting investigations.
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Three die in violence Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:38 AM SL Time At least three civilians including a youth were killed when a bomb fixed to a van parked near a house at Shantha Cholai in Vavuniya exploded yesterday, police said. They said the van was released by the Vavuniya Courts and was brought to the spot by the youth when the explosion occurred. Police said a child who also was injured was admitted to the Vavuniya hospital. Meanwhile, the LTTE stepped up its mortar and artillery attacks on the troops in Muhamalai killing a soldier and injuring three others, while Special Task Force personnel recovered a large stock of arms from Ampara, Military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe said. He also said a soldier was killed and two others injured in LTTE mortar attacks on the Muhamalai forward defence lines last morning.
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Two policemen shot dead for arresting a suspect Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:29 AM SL Time Two policemen and a civilian were shot dead at Thotagamuwa in the Meetiyagoda Police area, at dawn yesterday. The trio were in a vehicle after arresting a suspect when the suspect`s brother got into an argument with the Police. In the midst of the heated argument he had grabbed the weapon of a policeman and opened fire killing a Sergeant, constable and the driver of the vehicle The deceased have been identified as Sergeant Premaratne (25018), Constable Dissanayake (25469) and the civilian driver from Wathugedera K. M. Jayantha de Silva. The suspect, who the Police arrested, is said to have promised to m arry a girl from Paruthota in Ambalangoda now employed in Lebanon. On the promise of marriage he had taken Rs. 290,000 from this girl and later had deserted her. The girl`s sister had made a complaint to the Ambalangoda Police in this regard and acting on the complaint the two Policemen proceeded to Thotagamuwa and arrested the suspect when they were shot dead.
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Army celebrates its 57th Anniversary Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:49 AM SL Time Today, Sri Lanka Army celebrates its honourable 57th Anniversary. Releasing a message to his men Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka greatly appreciated the work and the commitment of the soldiers during these stressful days. Referring to the military objectives, he said, `we should work with esprit de corps to achieve this objective. Many measures have already been launched, if not hitherto undertaken, to promote the image of the Army as a professional outfit rich with discipline, lawfulness and technical know-how, free from corruption, deception, wastage of resources and public funds.` He spelled out the noble goals of the Army to march forward as a professional outfit providing security while defending the country`s territorial integrity and sovereignty, adequate training practices, effective management of resources and troops, maximum use of weaponry and organizational capabilities are highly required to enormously strengthen the morale of the troops deployed in operational areas. They should be counted as part of prime responsibilities of a soldier as disciplined members of the Army, if we are to reach our goals.
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President has no right to violate people`s mandate: JHU Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:46 AM SL Time The Jathika Hela Urumaya yesterday urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa to reveal the agreement to the public before signing the MoU with the main opposition UNP. JHU General Secretary Ven. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera said though both parties talk about six main points, nobody knows what is really contained in the said agreement. 'There is no point in revealing the agreement after signing it. President Rajapaksa was elected to power by the people and he has no right to sign any agreement on his own wish. He does not have any right to enter into any agreement which would violate the mandate he received for the Mahinda Chinthanaya,' Ven. Thera said.
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Constitutional experts welcome move towards power sharing at Centre Tuesday, 10 October 2006 - 5:02 AM SL Time Moves by the country`s two main political parties to reintroduce some salient features of the 1931 Donoughmore Constitution have been welcomed by two leading constitutional experts. Eminent lawyers H. L. De Silva and Faisz Musthapha said it would pave the way for consensual politics as opposed to confrontational politics. They pointed out under this system, no one ethnic group could dominate as government departments would be overseen by a committee of parliamentarians representing all the ethnic communities, resulting in a series of checks and balances. 'It is principally aimed at greater diffusion of political power among members of the legislature which makes it a more democratic form of governance. The Soulbury Constitution which concentrated political power in a smaller number of individuals did not enable adequate participation of minorities in government. What is being sought is the greater participation of all groups in legislature,' Mr. De Silva said.
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Fonterra provides free Anchor on World School Milk Day Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:42 AM SL Time Fonterra Brands Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the largest dairy company in the world, Fonterra Co-operative group Ltd., New Zealand, celebrated `World School Milk Day` in collaboration with the Ministry of Education which enabled children from around the country benefit from the international day. The celebrations were held at the Balapitiya Primary School in Balapitiya, Horana, with the Hon. Nirmala Kotelawala, Deputy Minister of Education as the Chief Guest on 27th September 2006. The last Wednesday of the month of September of each year has been declared as `World School Milk Day` by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to provide an opportunity for the world to focus its attention on the importance of milk and its benefits for growing children.
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Agony for mental patients Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:39 AM SL Time Sri Lanka is grappling with a shortage of mental health specialists with only 14 of them being available for the whole country, Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said yesterday. Addressing a seminar at the Health Education Bureau, Minister de Silva said the situation created a grave impact because some 376, 000 people were known to be suffering from mental illnesses. The Minister said the problem had been aggravated as doctors did not choose mental health to pursue their higher studies, and therefore the Ministry had decided not to allow doctors to select courses on their own. Instead, the Ministry will determine what courses doctors should follow based on the country`s health needs. He also said 60 percent of doctors who went abroad for post-graduate mental health studies, had not returned to the country. 'In future, neither the GMOA nor the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) will be given a chance to select doctors for higher studies in medicine. It will be done by the Health Ministry in keeping with the country`s health needs,' he said.
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Eleven thousand Sri Lankans for jobs in South Korea Tuesday, 10 October 2006 - 5:10 AM SL Time Sri Lanka will send a fresh batch of 11,000 workers to South Korea, the Ministry of Foreign Employment Promotion says The workers will be offered employment opportunities in factories, farms and the hospitality trade. These workers will be provided two-year contracts with visas. The employees have to provide the cost of airfare themselves. Priority of the employment opportunities will be given to the males in the age category of18 to 35. The government is planning to send all 11, 000 workers to Korea, before the end of the year 2007. The Ministry says it will assist needy jobseekers with credit facilities from state banks. Recently, the bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and South Korea has been developed and the employment avenues in South Korea for Sri Lankans marked a steady increase.
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Learning from mistakes Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:34 AM SL Time President Mahinda Rajapakse has minced no words in telling the representative of the Co-chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference, who met him on Monday that truce or no truce, the Sri Lanka government will exercise its right to resort to military action to thwart arms smuggling by the LTTE. The `credit` for the LTTE having emerged as a formidable guerrilla outfit should go not only to its leader Prabhakaran but also to southern political leaders who let the grass grow under their feet. With those leaders blundering along in their counter terror campaigns, the LTTE had no need for friends. For, they all allowed it to take the initiative at the battlefront and to abuse peace processes to further its military interests.
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The pump question Tuesday, 10 October 2006 - 4:47 AM SL Time Once a dipsomaniac, who had clambered up a kitul palm to quench his thirst with the pot that cheers, was challenged by the tapper: `What the hell are you doing over there'` The other, already in high spirits, answered calmly: `I was looking for some grass for my cattle'` `Do you get grass on trees'` the tapper demanded to know. `There isn`t any. That`s why I am getting down,` said the tippler sliding down the palm. The moral of the toddy tale is: Sri Lankans have innovative answers to all questions. They also have questions to which there need not be any answers. For example, whenever a Sri Lankan sees someone eating, he can`t help asking: Are you eating' It is that legendary tapper-tippler duo that one may have remembered on reading a news item on the CPC fuel pumps, in the Sunday Island. Over 1,500 pumps in the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) run filling stations, our news items revealed, didn`t come with the facility to set the price per litre above Rs. 100.00. The answers that some CPC bigwigs, both past and present, have given to our questions on the pump controversy are interesting.
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The case for executive committee system Monday, 9 October 2006 - 12:26 PM SL Time When the country is on the threshold of far-reaching decisions as regards constitutional reforms and talks with the LTTE to bring peace to the land, inevitably different points of view arise. And ours being a society committed to democratic principles and practices, all views honestly expressed in the country`s best interest have to be given due consideration. On the question of constitutional reforms, the proposal to adopt a form of administration similar to the executive committee system that existed under the Donoughmore Constitution has received serious attention. The proposal to bring back this system surfaced from time to time in this country. During the time of formulating both autochthonous constitutions this proposal was made by some parties as a method of getting all parties involved in the administration of the country.
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Royal, Trinity and S. Thomas` old boys to play in Tag Rugby Tourney Wednesday, 11 October 2006 - 4:52 AM SL Time Sun Down Tag Down Part II is here people and it is set to take the rugby scene in Sri Lanka by storm. The second annual tag rugby tournament involving the old boys from three `rugby schools` - S. Thomas` College, Royal College and Trinity College, is organized by the Class of `94 of S. Thomas` College, Mt. Lavinia. Following on from the mammoth success of the first event in 2005, the Class of `94 hopes to make the second annual Sun Down Tag Down and event to remember and certainly, bigger and better. The event, which celebrates the spirit of rugby between the three great rugby-playing schools, has been positioned as the ideal place to foster camaraderie and to renew old and binding ties and rivalries. However, ceding the point to make rugby more attractive to the home-front, to respective wives and girlfriends and especially the new generation of rugby-playing school boys, the event has adopted a distinctly carnival spirit, involving a ladies game, kiddies park and a beer garden, among a host of other attractions.
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Lankans looking for another win Tuesday, 10 October 2006 - 5:04 AM SL Time Sri Lanka will be looking to register their second straight victory when they confront a depleted Zimbabwe team in their International Cricket Council Mini World Cup qualifying round match in Ahamedabad today. This match is of great importance for the Lankans because another win would certainly guarantee them of a place in the main competition which starts on Sunday. Sri Lanka will be hoping for an improved performance from their bowlers after they got a severe beating from the Bangladesh batsmen in their opening fixture. Skipper Mahela Jayawardena has already called his bowlers to tighten up things as they will be playing against much stronger opposition when the tournament progresses. Their main target at the moment is to come on top of the qualifying round competition by winning all three matches.
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Tharanga opens window to Sri Lankan future Tuesday, 10 October 2006 - 4:48 AM SL Time Flashback to 2004; the tsunami had washed away the future of Sri Lankan cricket, well, almost. Considered one of the finds of junior cricket and an exciting young face in world cricket, Upul Tharanga just managed to save his life but had lost it all ' his house, his belongings. Then Kumar Sangakkara donated some cricket gear, and some of his teammates helped him rebuild. Sangakkara, they say, has always had a soft spot for Tharanga who`s a regular wicketkeeper in his own right. Today then, against Bangladesh in their Champions Trophy opener, it was only right that Sangakkarra was at the other end when Tharanga scribbled his name in the record books '- as the second fastest Lankan batsman (30 matches) to get past 1,000 runs in ODIs, next only to the great Roy Dias. Coincidence again' Not really, because his senior teammates believe that the 21-year-old left-hander will make big news soon and is a vital cog in the Lankan wheel. And if the Champions Trophy is considered as the second biggest one-day stage, then Tharanga is on course for the big one next year.
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