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United States condemns attacks on Sri Lankan TV station and radio broadcaster

Monday, 02 August 2010
The U.S. Embassy on Saturday condemned attacks on a Sri Lankan television station saying such acts imperil media freedom in the country. A dozen men armed with assault rifles and petrol bombs attacked the offices of privately owned Voice of Asia Network at pre-dawn Friday. The television management said the assailants assaulted security guards before setting fire to the building that houses the TV station, destroying its studios, control room and library. One guard and another employee were injured.
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Ranil should be made ‘Mahanayake’ and Sajith the Leader of the UNP - Dayasiri Jayasekera

Monday, 02 August 2010
Mr. Sajith Premadasa should be made the leader of the UNP and Ranil Wickremesinghe the senior leader to resolve the crisis that exists in the UNP says UNP Parliamentarian for Kurunegala District Dayasiri Jayasekera.
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Malinga on track for third Test

Monday, 02 August 2010
Both sides look set to welcome back injured troops for the final Test of the series at the P Sara Oval on Tuesday. Gautam Gambhir and Lasith Malinga, if fit, should walk back into their respective sides, while Yuvraj Singh presents India with a conundrum. Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan captain, said Malinga - the biggest factor in the series so far - was on track to recover from the stiffness and fever that kept him out of the second Test.
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'Govt. will soon make KP a pariot, while General Fonseka is in jail'

Monday, 02 August 2010

The government is on a path that leads to anarchy, says Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) who adds that the LTTE leader KP is being given gradual promotions and in no time we would be hearing the government proclaiming him as be patriot.

He expressed these views at a media briefing in Colombo today.

“This is a government that is making numerous attempts to brand General Sarath Fonseka as a traitor and cases are filed against him with the intention of somehow sending him to prison.

UN's Lanka panel to meet this month

Monday, 02 August 2010
The three-member panel appointed by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to look into human rights accountability issues during the final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka is likely meet this month, media reports said on Sunday. The panel has already attracted a lot of criticism from the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. In July, raucous protests were organised outside the UN premises in Colombo, forcing the agency to shut office for a few days. Ban Ki-moon, however, did not accede to the demand of dismantling the panel.
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Fire at Siyatha office

Friday, 30 July 2010
A fire broke out at the Siyatha media office at Hunupitiya Lake Road in Colombo a short while ago. An official of the network which operates Siyatha TV and Real radio said that according to initial reports it was an arson attack.
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NTUC condemns using force to suppress university teachers’ struggle

Thursday, 29 July 2010
The National Trade Union Centre (NTUC) condemns the move by the government to suppress the token strike carried out by university teachers to demand the government to fulfill very justifiable demands they had presented to the government and which the government had, on several occasions, promised to fulfill.
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Sarasavi student murder: father and son exchanging letters to dodge the issue -UNP Gen. Secretary

Thursday, 29 July 2010
Addressing a media briefing at the UNP media unit yesterday (28), UNP Gen. Secretary Tissa Attanayake said, the Rajapakse Govt.’s favorite preoccupation is breaking promises. The President himself promised at the Presidential elections that public servants’ salaries will be increased by Rs. 2500/- per month in January 2010. That promise was not fulfilled. The President and Basil Rajapakse promised to the University professors Association on 31st January 2008 to increase the monthly salaries of the Professors. That promise also evaporated into thin air. The Govt. also promised to give a 25% to 50% education allowance until the salary increases are given. That too was not honored. Then it promised to grant a 20% additional interest to the fixed deposits of the senior citizens over 60 years. That promise too has been broken from the 30th of June, Attanayake pointed out.
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Mervyn 'bans' dengue

Thursday, 29 July 2010
Deputy Minister of Highways Mervyn Silva said he would not let any dengue deaths occur in Kelaniya after August 1st and if a death does occur, officials of the relevant authorities will be tied to a tree as punishment. Speaking at a media briefing Deputy Minister Mervyn Silva said that he would take measures to tie the members of the Pradeshiya sabha, health officials, grama niladari officials and samurdhi officials to a tree located close to the dengue victim’s house.
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Govt. responds to academicians’ strike – Deducts a day’s pay!

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The government, instead of resolving the issue that led to a token strike carried out by more than 4000 university teachers in universities throughout the island, has taken measures to cut a day’s wages from the university academics who took part in the token strike. This has been informed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to vice- chancellors of all universities by circular.
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Corruption index places Lanka 97th out of 180 Private sector a major source of corruption

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Sri Lanka is ranked 97th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report for 2009. The island’s private sector has been indentified as a major source of corruption while land deals for tourism development projects are not transparent and corrupt deals go through in the name of defence, officials say.
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We were not allowed time to take Legal action against constitutional amendments –Ranil UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing a media briefing at the Sri Kotha on the 1st, said the party was more ready to take political measures rather than legal against the Govt.’s proposed constitutional amendments.

Mr. Wickremesinghe gave this above answer in reply to a question posed by the media whether the UNP is taking legal measures against the constitutional amendments of the Govt. He also added that, as the proposed amendments in writing were received by the party only on Sunday last, there was hardly any time for the party’s legal Council to make an evaluation thereon.