Polls campaign ends today

Campaigning for the March 10 Batticaloa Local Polls will end by midnight today, 48 hours ahead. All arrangements have been finalised for the Local Government Election, slated to take place on Monday after a lapse of 14 years.

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MP K. Sivanesan killed in claymore blast in Wanni

ITAK MP for Jaffna district Kiddinadan Sivanesan was killed in a claymore mine explosion in an uncleared area in the Wanni, two kilometres away from Mankulam on the A-9 road yesterday around 1.20 p.m. on his way from Colombo to Kilinochchi.

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Human Rights Minister rebuts Lord Brown’s criticism

Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister and Head of delegation to the Seventh Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Mahinda Samarasinghe joined issue with the British Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, Mark Malloch-Brown, yesterday morning.

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Aitken Spence to invest in India

Aitken Spence Hotels will go for a joint venture hotel project with an Indian hotel company Floatels India Limited in Cochin. The total investment would be around US $ eight million and Aitken Spence will undertake the management of the entire hotel under the agreement,

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