OTHER NEWS NAVY-SLAF destroy 6 LTTE Boats Foreign Ministry will move a supplementary budget for the forthcoming SAARC Summit. EU delegation arrived Troops Liberate Illuppaikkadavai    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend UPFA achieved an outstanding 11-05-2008 The United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance has achieved an outstanding victory in the first ever provincial council election in the eastern province. The UPFA received 308,886 votes and 20 seats in the eastern provincial council. The United National Party has received 15 seats. The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and the Tamil Democratic National Alliance have received one seat each. The UNP has received 250,732 votes and the JVP received 9,390 votes. The UPFA secured victory in seven out of ten polling divisions at yesterday’s election. These polling divisions are Ampara, Samanthurai, Potuvil, Seruvila, Kalkuda, Batticaloa and Padirippu. The UPFA has won the districts of Ampara and Batticaloa. The party also won in all three districts in postal voting. Meanwhile, the UNP gained victory in the polling divisions of Kalmunai, Trincomalee and Muttur. The party also emerged victorious in the Trincomalee district. According to results released so far the UPFA has gained six seats in the Batticaloa district and four in the Trincomalee district. The UNP has gained four seats in the Batticaloa district and five in the Trincomalee district. The Tamil Democratic National Alliance has gained one seat in the Batticaloa district. The JVP has gained one seat in the Trincomalee district. In the Ampara district the UPFA has gained eight seats and the UNP six seats. A notable factor in the election is that the UNP lost the Batticaloa district which it won in the last presidential election. Over 60 percent have cast their vote in yesterday’s election while PAFFEREL says overall the election was conducted peacefully and in a free and fair manner. The counting of preferential votes is now taking place. Retuning Officers believe that the outcome could be declared within today. Print Version | Email to friend

NAVY-SLAF destroy 6 LTTE Boats Sun, 20-07-2008 14:00:00 Six LTTE boats were destroyted and two damaged by the Air Force and Navy, three km south of Nachchikuddah.... |FULL STORY|

Foreign Ministry will move a supplementary budget for the forthcoming SAARC Summit. Sun, 20-07-2008 13:00:00 Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry moved a supplementary budget in parliament on Tuesday to obtain Rs. 2,880,180,332 for the forthcoming SAARC summit. Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama will present this estimate and the parliament will hold a six hour debate on this proposal. According to the parliament sources recurrent expenditure will be Rs.401,881,272.00 and Capital expenditure will be Rs.2,478,299,060.00. It contained allocations for fuel - some Rs. 45,994,935 and diets and... |FULL STORY|

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EU delegation arrived Sun, 20-07-2008 10:00:00 EU Parliamentary Delegation is now in Sri Lanka .It leads by EU Parliamentarian Robert Evans who was a British MP. Deputy Leader of the delegation Niranjan Deva Adithya , who is a Sri Lanka said the team will meet Cabinet ministers, Political parties, Civil societies , Media and the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivaneshathurai Chandrakanthan. During their six day visit the team discuss on GSP Plus status and several issues with Sri Lankan authorities. The GSP plus con... |FULL STORY|

Troops Liberate Illuppaikkadavai Sun, 20-07-2008 10:00:00 Sri Lanka army has declared Iluppaikkadavai town liberated for the first time after 21 years this afternoon (July 20). According to defence sources troops of Task Force 1 , Commando brigade and Army 57 division encircled the remote town situated 12 km North of Vidattaltivu by last night and entered in to the town this morning. The sources further said that another large LTTE stronghold situated on the Northwestern coast of the Island has fallen with the new victory. Troops of Task... |FULL STORY|

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