OTHER NEWS LTTE aircraft sighted A series of protest campaigns against recent EP polls Pillayan- first chief minister for Eastern Province Pillayan - new CM EP    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend Relief Services for displaced families 30-04-2008 The Ministry of Disaster Relief Services provides cooked food sufficient for three days and dry ration for one week to the people who have been displaced due to floods. More than 60 thousand persons in eight districts have been distressed due to heavy rains that lashed the island during the past few days. 1521 displaced persons have taken temporary shelter at 37 centers. In a media briefing held in Colombo today deputy director of the National Relief Services Center Janaka Gunawardena said the government disbursed three million rupees to provide relief to flood victims in Kalutara, Colombo, Gampaha and Rathnapura districts. Compensation will be paid to an injured person to the maximum of ten thousand rupees each. A maximum of 50 thousand rupees will be paid to persons whose houses were damaged due to floods. A maximum of 20 thousand rupees will also be paid to damages of cultivations. Speaking at the media briefing, head of the landslides monitoring unit of the national building research organization R.M.S. Bandara said they have identified a number of areas in the Kandy, Rathnapura, Kalutara, Galle, Matara and Kegalle districts which are vulnerable to landslides. Secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management, Peter Dias Amarasinghe said pilot projects implemented affiliated to river basins of Kelani, Kalu, Nilwala and Walawe rivers will help to reduce flood threat in future. Print Version | Email to friend

LTTE aircraft sighted Fri, 16-05-2008 04:00:00 An LTTE air craft was detected by the air defence system yesterday evening over the LTTE built Iranamadu runway, military sources said. A senior Air Force official told media that the air defence system had detected the LTTE aircraft soon after, it was airborne. “However it immediately disappeared from the radar system, as it went down,” the official said. ... |FULL STORY|

A series of protest campaigns against recent EP polls Fri, 16-05-2008 19:00:00 UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake , said , this Govt. has no capacity to do anything legal and honest ,whether it is administration, development or in the conduct of elections. It thrives only on murder, mayhem, corruption and malpractices. The Eastern Provincial Council elections bore all those hallmarks, he added. At the last Presidential elections it entered into a pact with the LTTE paying them billions of rupees betraying the country, and won. This time it entered into an allianc... |FULL STORY|

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Pillayan- first chief minister for Eastern Province Fri, 16-05-2008 18:00:00 Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan was sworn-in as the Chief Minister for the Eastern Province before President Mahinda Rajapaksa this evening. Three other provincial councilors also took their oaths, as cabinet of ministers despite M.L.A.M Hisbullah was absent. They are T.Navaratnarajah, Wimalaweera Dissanayake and M.Uduma . After swearing in ceremony Minister Athaullah welcomed the newly appointed Chief Minister. Chandrakantha obtained the highest number of preferential vo... |FULL STORY|

Pillayan - new CM EP Fri, 16-05-2008 14:00:00 Mr.Pillayan took oaths as the Chief Minister of the Eastern Provincial Council in a short while ago.... |FULL STORY|

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