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                      | Bus 
                        owners threaten strike next week |  | 
                     
                      | By Malik Gunatilleke 
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                      | Private bus owners have 
                        threatened to go on strike next week if the Government 
                        does not respond favourably to their request to increase 
                        bus fares to meet the increased fuel prices. |  | 
                     
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                      | From fire to 
                        garbage dump |  | 
                     
                      | By Nadia Fazlulhaq |  | 
                     
                      | More than eighty families which lost 
                        their homes in the massive fire at Mahawatte, Madampitiya 
                        in Mattakkuliya on December 20 last year are still living 
                        in tents in a playground adjoining the massive garbage 
                        disposal area, although almost nine months have passed 
                        since the incident. |  | 
                     
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                      | Govt. to institute 
                        legal action against SLIC |  | 
                     
                      | By Chathuri Dissanayake |  | 
                     
                      | The government is to institute legal 
                        action against the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation’s 
                        (SLIC) auditors Ernst & Young and the consortium of 
                        buyers over a disputed claim in the controversial 2003 
                        privatisation of the state insurer. |  | 
                    
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