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UN: Govt. blocking fuel supplies
The United Nations is accusing the Sri Lankan government of starving its humanitarian agencies of much-needed fuel to operate vehicles and also generators which power freezers storing life-saving vaccines and other medicines. The continued power shortages, caused by lack of fuel, will soon affect the preservation of vaccines and essential medicines, the UN warned in a letter to Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa.
 
President urges Bhagwati to continue; clarifies AG’s remarks
The President’s Office on Friday sent an urgent letter to Justice P. N. Bhagwati, Chairman of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) monitoring the probe on human rights investigations in Sri Lanka clarifying the Government’s position on the ongoing exchange of accusations between the Group and the Attorney General.
 

Govt. under heavy pressure from Co-chairs

Sri Lanka's major aid donors who met in Oslo this week to review developments in Sri Lanka have set a four-point agenda to end the ongoing fighting and resume peace talks. The Donor Co-chairs of the peace process, as they identify themselves, ......
 
Loss-making CPC in Rs. 50 m security deal
Whilst the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) sends the cost of living skyrocketing by enforcing another fuel price hike on Friday night, it is spending a staggering fifty million rupees on a private security company to guard its oil installations.
 

Thantirimale Seya......
 
Posts Dept. reeking of corruption, charges UPTO
 
Don’t register with new Council: GMOA
 
High consumer prices in Jaffna belie Govt. claims
 
Katunayake airport open round the clock
 
New guidelines for pawnshop searches
 
Bus fares going up, CoL soars
 
Rs. 48 m. for Mahinda Wijesekera’s Ministry
 
Alleged assault on journalist: Air Force statements recorded by police
   
Escalating war leaves tourism in crisis
   
Mounties probe mystery of missing Tamils
   
What the President said about the Judiciary......
   
Sri Lanka gets its first Buddhist TV channel
   
Commission to grill Minister Moragoda
   
US Congress duo concerned over Lankan crisis
   
Odds & Ends
   
Wail from Weli Oya
   
Govt. plans to rope in more taxpayers
   
Killings continue in North and East
   
Doctor shortage in conflict areas
   
BBC blunder on Sri Lanka the day new UK govt. took office
   

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