Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ponders over a remark by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga at the Sahanaya Foundation function at President’s House on Monday evening. The project is to raise funds for the construction of a building to assist the mentally handicapped. Picture by Avinash Bandara.

Doctors' strike claims another victim

by Jayantha Sri Nissanka, Bharatha Malawaraarachchi and Sandasen Marasinghe

The doctors' strike claimed another victim yesterday with the death of a young mother of two as a result of the non-availability of treatment in a Government hospital.
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Killing of M. K. Ranjith : Car used in killing found

by Asanga Warnakulasuriya

The car used in the killing of PA Southern Provincial Minister M.K.Ranjith was found by the Mahiyanganaya Police, charred and abandoned in a thicket in the Mahiyanganaya area.
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Utilisation of Tokyo conference aid : Other party leaders to be briefed

The structure of the machinery to utilise the aid pledged at the Tokyo Aid Conference has to be discussed with other party leaders, stated Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, addressing a special meeting of the Ministers in Parliament yesterday .
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• Parliament sittings suspended after Mangala's outburst

• Ven. Galayaye Piyadassi in Queen's Birthday Honours list

• No bus fare hike

• 800 Computer Learning Centres to be set up - Education Minister

• Proposal for second int'l airport close to Thanamalvilla

• CEB employees report back to work

• Industrial forum held in Negombo

• Private sector help sought to upgrade skills in automobile industry

• NERD Centre geared to help country's development drive

• Opposition support for development projects in WPC

• New hope for Lankans affected by age-related loss of central vision

• Tyronne appointed PSC Chairman

• Senior Municipal Councillor dead

• Export credit facility from Austria for the construction of railway bridges

• LCCIEB opportunities in Sri Lanka

• Udatalawinna Mass Murder Case : When the group inside van pleaded with armed men they opened fire - Witness

• Board for determination of claims for maintenance by elders

• News in brief

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