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Higher prices will be paid for the Paddy harvest produced by organic cultivation.

Any idea who is looking for that ancient sword? King or his son?

Cultural Affairs Minister T. B. Ekanayake yesterday lashed out at the detractors of the government who tried to involve President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the theft of a sword at the National Museum, Colombo.Participating in a debate on an adjournment motion moved by UNP Badulla District MP Harin Fernando, who accused the government of inaction in the face of the ongoing treasure hunting spree, the Minister said the masses have handed over the entire country to the President and there was no need for the owner to steal.

'Any threat to SF would come from Opposition - Dinesh'

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Colombo twists investigation of Canadian Tamil citizen's brutal slaying

Sri Lankan military intelligence and the SL Police have projected the murder investigation of the late Mahendrarajah as a robbery allegedly fixing approvers and discovery of the laptop and two mobile phones owned by the slain victim. Informed sources in Ki'linochchi told TamilNet Sunday that the recovered laptop and mobile phones did not contain any contact details or logs. The manoeuvrings of the Colombo regime, its defence establishment and its intelligence outfits in fixing the case shows only a tip of the iceberg about the existing conditions, but a careful scrutiny and pursue of even minor details of the fixing exercise would reveal the dimensions of the plight of Eezham Tamils in the captivity of the genocidal regime, informed circles knowing background stories told TamilNet.

The approver story was not consistent between what the SL police spokesman was telling the media and what the alleged approvers were telling the Courts, the sources further said.

Arulampalam Akilan, Appahu Anandarasa, Nalluchamy Balachandran, and Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage Michael Pradeepkumar were the people who have been arrested by the SL Police, according to news reports.

The woman, who has been alleged by the SL Police as the person behind the murder, has denied the charges and said that she didn't even know the slain victim.

The diaspora, especially the Canadian Tamil diaspora that has representation even in the Canadian parliament, has to realize the universal importance of the case intimidating the diaspora through Colombo's application of 'militarized reconciliation' originating from the US State Department and has to act accordingly, without citing 'excuses', civil activists in the island urged.

In the meantime, The Globe and Mail in Canada reported Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the Canadian Tamil MP as having voiced for the issue during a recent Tamil rally in Scarborough. We need to make sure the Canadian government is pushing for an investigation a lot of members of the community are outraged, Rathika was quoted as saying.

Keheliya returns, tells Fonseka not to take undue advantage of release

Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella today said that the former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka should not make an attempt to take undue advantage from the presidential pardon granted to him.

Mr Rambukwella made the remarks at a news conference addressed by him soon after he returned from Australia where he was receiving medical treatment following the fall off from a hotel balcony.