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President Mahinda Rajapaksa is due to leave for Singapore tomorrow (Feb. 14) on a two-day official visit.

He is undertaking the visit at the invitation of his Singaporean counterpart Tony Tan Keng Yam.

From a tour of Pakistan, Mr. Rajapaksa returned to the country just yesterday.

Senior minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama says electricity rates will have to go up following the increase in fuel prices.

Speaking at a public rally in Kandy , he said the country has no option but to use fuel and electricity sparingly.

Deputy minister Premalal Jayasekara said the decision on increasing electricity rates would be taken by the Public Utilities Commission.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday said natural gas has been found off the Indian Ocean island nation in the Mannar Basin, in a well Cairn India Ltd. said required more exploration to see if it is commercially viable.

Cairn, a subsidiary of London-listed Cairn Energy Plc , said the find was Sri Lanka's first confirmed hydrocarbon discovery.

'Explorers have informed me that they have found a gas deposit in the seabed,' presidential spokesman Wijayananda Herath quoted Rajapaksa as saying to an audience in the hill city of Kandy.

Cairn Lanka, a subsidiary of Cairn India, has one of eight blocks in the Mannar Basin and began drilling in August.

It struck a 25-metre hydrocarbon column showing primarily gas with 'other liquid hydrocarbon potential' in the CLPL-Dorado-91H/1z wildcat well, drilled at a water depth of 1,354 metres (4,442 feet).

'Further drilling will be required to establish the commerciality of the discovery,' Cairn said in a statement.

In 2007, the government gave one Mannar block each to India and China, but neither has drilled. The remaining five blocks are to be awarded by tender.

'We are optimistic that this will be commercially successful,' Petroleum Industries Minister Susil Premajayantha told Reuters. 'Now with this discovery, we can get good competition and offers for the remaining five blocks when we go for tendering.'

Interest in the blocks has grown, but most operators have been happy to let Cairn try its luck before making any commitments while the government smooths an erratic oil and gas regulatory regime, diplomats following the exploration in Sri Lanka have told Reuters.

It is unclear whether the find will affect terms of a deal by London-listed miner Vedanta Resources to take a majority stake in Cairn India.

Sri Lanka's government has said seismic data shows the potential for more than 1 billion barrels of oil under the sea in a 30,000 sq km area of the Mannar Basin, off the island's north western coast.

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