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President’s 2008 budget doubled
The 2008 budgetary allocations for the Office of the President will be doubled to more than Rs 5.75 billion -- with about Rs. 1.43 billion of this going for a new category called ‘development activities’. The Appropriation Bill for next year gives few if any details of new “development activities”.
 
Reference to Athas as traitor: Yapa says sorry

Non Cabinet Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene told the BBC’s Sinhala service Sandeshaya that he was not aware of the government .....

 

Reports of low flying planes: Colombo on alert

The reported sighting of two suspected LTTE light aircraft in Tantirimale near Anuradhapura on Friday night is being probed by the Defence Ministry, after a scare set off by it led to key areas in Colombo being put on full alert.
 

No money for DB, CBK next year

No allocations have been made for the offices of the former presidents Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and D. B. Wijetunga in the budget for next year. In this year’s budget, Rs 7.3 million in recurrent expenditure and Rs. 100,000 in capital expenditure were allocated for the office of former President Wijetunga while Rs 14.5 million.....
 

   
Right of reply
  False and fabricated, says Mihin Air
  Beverly Hills blitz and billion dollar nurses
   
Hot air without cold facts
   
Athas case:Judge says media freedom should be respected
   
Tiger lawyers in move to prove LTTE a liberation force
 
Judge warns sureties to produce accused
 
Defence Academy upgraded to university
 
Mother’s death: Gauze the cause
 
Muslim Aid assistance for 30 deprived children
 
French Tiger funds frozen, activists arrested
 
Czechs willing to supply hi-tech military equipment
 
LTTE suspects grilled on escape tunnel
 
Odds & Ends
 
Hit so hard, they can hardly say paan
 
Two senior citizens make serious charges against CBK
 
Jumping jeweller causes loss in millions
   
Imbulana to be feted
   
Disgruntled SLFPers seek justice their way
   
Roads in Colombo City in danger of collapse
   
Displaced can return to Sillavatturai and Arippu soon – Maj. Gen. Jayasuriya
   
Lankan visitor to Madurai jail shot dead by prison guard
   
CLIR to be disconnected; only for VIPs, Ministers
   
JVP-backed CEB trade unions to launch sick note campaign
   
Jobless graduates seek meeting with President over their future
   
President woos UPF to avert estate showdown
   
JVP’s youth union meets
   
SC ruling on 3 urgent bills sent to Speaker, President
   
Three bodies found
   

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