Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee embrace each other in this combination photo before Vajpayee’s departure from Islamabad on Tuesday. Vajpayee was in Islamabad, his first visit since 1999, for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit. Reuters pic

Ceasefire Agreement :

Certain clauses invalid today - PM

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing a public rally at Balagolla, Panduwasnuwara yesterday said that certain clauses of the Ceasefire Agreement have become invalid today due to the action of the President in taking over the ministries of defence, interior and mass communications.
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Free incoming calls, soon

The Secretary to the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication and Chairman, Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Tilak Ranaviraja states that a news item in the media attributed to have been made by Minister Imitiaz Bakeer Markar that the delay in implementing the Calling Party Pay system was due to the taking over of the Mass Communication Ministry by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is totally incorrect and misleading.
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Lanka ready to challenge SARS

by Bharatha Malawaraarachchi

The Health Ministry yesterday geared itself with precautionary measures to face a possible threat of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome amidst fears of a re-emergence of the deadly virus in the South Asian region.
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