OTHER NEWS THE GOVERNMENT’S WINNING FORMULA IN EAST--AND ELSEWHERE SB calls for national PC Documents handed over for NLF Malaka Silva and Kudu Lal released    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend Supreme Council of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress to meet tonight 26-03-2008 Supreme Council of the SLMC will meet tonight to take a final decision on contesting the provincial council election in the eastern province. Secretary to the SLMC parliamentarian Hasan Ali said that the meeting will be held at the party headquarters at 8.00 pm today. They are to reach a common decision after considering various proposals received by the party regarding the local government election. Mr. Ali said some regional party members are on the opinion that the SLMC should contest the election single-handedly. Print Version | Email to friend

THE GOVERNMENT’S WINNING FORMULA IN EAST--AND ELSEWHERE Mon, 12-05-2008 07:00:00 by Dr.Jehan Perera On May 10, the LTTE launched three major attacks in the east. They sank a naval cargo ship within the highly defended Trincomalee harbour. In addition they launched a series of mortar attack in Damana, a Sinhalese-inhabited part of the Ampara district and exploded a bomb in a restaurant in the middle of the Sinhalese-inhabited Ampara town killing over a dozen civilians and injuring many more. These incidents appear to have been timed by the LT... |FULL STORY|

SB calls for national PC Mon, 12-05-2008 06:00:00 UNP National Organiser S. B. Dissanayake has proposed a National Provincial Council for the Eastern Province. Addressing the press in Kandy on Sunday the outspoken politician said that he was happy with the government’s victory at the just concluded election but regretted the way the ruling coalition had secured the first Eastern Provincial Council. After a lapse of twenty years the people of the Eastern Province had enjoyed their right to vote, the former SLFP heavyweigh... |FULL STORY|

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Documents handed over for NLF Mon, 12-05-2008 06:00:00 The Wimal Weerawansa faction today produced the documents at the Elections Commissioner's Secretariat to register a new party. The party is named the National Liberation Front(NLF), colour Gold and the emblem the crown. ... |FULL STORY|

Malaka Silva and Kudu Lal released Sun, 11-05-2008 07:00:00 The Special Task Force (STF) which arrested Malaka Silva, son of Minister Mervyn Silva and Mervyn Silva confidante, Lal Peries alias Kudu Lal over alleged voter intimidation, had been forced to release the duo due to political interference. The STF arrested the duo who was accompanied by a group of hooligans, when they ran amok at a polling centre in Dehiattakandiya. The group was released due to the insistence of a Western Province provincial councillor who recently switched alleg... |FULL STORY|

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