Soldiers help a nurse to push a patient’s trolley at the National Hospital yesterday, in the absence of workers attached to the Health Services Trade Union Alliance.

Troops called in to bolster health services

by Bharatha Malawaraarachchi

Despite the strike by the Health Services Trade Union Alliance, health authorities yesterday assured that measures are in place to minimise the inconvenience caused to the public and ensure a satisfactory service.
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Probe into PM's poster:

Police looking for red van, question over 30

by Sarath Malalasekera

Detectives probing into the sudden appearance of posters carrying the picture of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Colombo city walls have come across information leading to the identification of the vehicle in which the posters were transported.
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Free access to LTTE areas for truce monitors

by Ranil Wijayapala

LTTE Political Wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan assured Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Chief Tryggve Tellefsen that they would take action to ensure freedom of movement for truce monitors in the LTTE controlled areas when he met Tellefsen in Kilinochchi on Tuesday.
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• Goal, reduce poverty and meet basic needs of coastal communities

• Focus on poor at C'wealth Finance parley

• Trinco-Muttur ferry service records full passenger capacity

• Lanka has ratified all major international conventions

• National Poverty Reduction Plan being drawn up

• Murder of Provincial Council Minister : Suspects directed to appear before Special Court

• Sunil Santha murder case : Suspect in custody

• NCPA probes assault on child

• Udatalawinna massacre : Five high powered guns used in attack - Govt. Analyst

• Need for eradicating sexual harassment at workplaces stressed

• Rights application of ex- Base Commander settled

• Dhamma education very essential - Revatha thera

• Children's Society in Kurunegala district re-named as M. H. Mohamed Vishva Lama Samajaya

• Pavement hawking, unauthorised structures in Panadura to be banned

• Beruwala to be developed as tourist resort

• Death of Dr. E. H. Mirando, eminent paediatrician

• Annual academic sessions of the College of Venereologists

• P.A. Ratnayake to take oaths as President's Counsel

• Customs centralise investigations network

• Appeal seeking recount of votes : SC reserves judgment

• Lankan team for Saiva meet in Malaysia

• News in brief

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