Once again the fishing industry in the war torn Eastern coastal areas is returning to normalcy with the ongoing peace process. Here, two fishermen at a fishing village in Trincomalee fixing a new engine to a boat which was lying idle for years. (Picture by Ravindra Seneviratne)

Power crisis: President delays urgent Bill

The Daily News learns that the Power Supply (Special Provisions) Bill approved by the Cabinet on February 25 and sent to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga as an urgent Bill in the national interest, is still with her without being sent to the Chief Justice as required.
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President conspiring to sabotage ceasefire - LTTE

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Saturday accused President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar of conspiring to sabotage the historic truce agreement between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE brokered by Norwegian facilitators and hailed by all major international governments including India, the Commonwealth and the European Union.
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Commonwealth united against terror

By our Special Correspondent in Coolum, Brisbane

The Commonwealth leaders unanimously decided that any member nation, which harbours terrorism, should have no place in the 54-member grouping.
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Other Stories

• PM agrees to Parliamentary Committee
  
  
• An appeal for peace and democratization - Archbishop
  
  
• Monitoring Mission Chief to meet Prabhakaran
  
  
• We should train and develop the potential of our people - Minister
  
  
• CMC pounces on mobile food outlets
  
  
• Udatalawinna massacre : Second identification parade today
  
  
• Welcome step toward reopening of dialogue
  
  
• Giving me Samurdhi averted Constitutional crisis - SB
  
  
• DLF welcomes ceasefire agreement
  
  
• Country cannot afford PA-UNP confrontation on Ceasefire Agreement - CPSL
  
  
• Development parallel with peace efforts
  
  
• Graham welcomes peace initiative in Sri Lanka
  
  
• Sri Lanka still high on UK asylum seekers list
  
  
• Doctor caught red handed
  
  
• Sarvodaya peace gathering at Anuradhapura
  
  
• Twenty Canadian youth here on study tour
  
  
• Kilo of rice to come down to Rs. 25
  
  
• Abducted child released
  
  
• Let us rebuild Samurdhi movement - SB
  
  
• TELF welcomes Ceasefire Agreement

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