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| Sri Lanka, UN at loggerheads over human rights |
| 2013-09-25 |
While President Mahinda Rajapaksa will paint “Paradise Island” in democratic colours for the General Assembly, the UN human rights commissioner will deliver a damning appraisal.
A man reads a local newspaper with a front-page picture of C.V. Wigneswaran, the newly elected chief minister of Sri Lanka's Northern Province, in Jaffna on Sunday. The Tamil National Alliance triumphed in last weekend's election, the first in the majority-Tamil province in more than two decades.
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| Manmohan may skip CHOGM |
| 2013-09-25 |
Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh may skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November, an Indian Minister said today.
V. Narayanaswamy said that he believes the Indian premier will not attend the Sri Lankan summit owing to concerns raised in Tamil Nadu.
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| UN failed in Sri Lanka - Ban Ki-moon |
| 2013-09-25 |
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon said that internal review of UN action in Sri Lanka during the final stages of the war had identified a 'systematic failure' on its part.
Addressing the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, he claimed that member states did not provide the UN system with support to meet the tasks they themselves had set while the system did not adapt properly or deliver fully.
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| Mine explodes in Muhamalai |
| 2013-09-25 |
Land Mine Sign, Frequant all over the are
A land mine exploded in Muhamalai in an uncleared area when a tractor ran over it today, the police said.
The police said that four people were on the tractor at the time of the explosion.
They had gone into the woods to gather firewood when the tractor got entangled with the mine.
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| President Mahinda Rajapaksa's full speech at UNGA |
| 2013-09-25 |
At the outset, I offer my condolences to the families whose loved ones died as a result of a terrorist attack in a shopping mall in Kenya. Having suffered from many terrorist attacks, for nearly three decades, we Sri Lankans condemn this cowardly act.
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| pura student union office sealed J'pura student union office sealed |
| 2013-09-25 |
The university administration has taken steps to seal the Students Union office of University of Sri Jayewardenepura, yesterday (24).
The reason has been cited as the lack of fulfilling requirements needed to maintain a “Student Union”.
According to the regulations, a university lecturer must bear the post of the union Treasurer for it to be legal.
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| Report on Welikada Prison riots released |
| 2013-09-25 |
The report of the three-member committee to investigate the November 2012, Welikada Prison riots in which 27 prisoners died, was handed over to the Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms, Chandrasiri Gajadeera, yesterday.
Speaking to Ceylon Today, Minister Gajadeera said, "The Chairman of the Committee handed the report and we are making an appraisal, based on its contents.
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| STF officers further remanded Killing of Trinco students |
| 2013-09-25 |
The Trincomalee Magistrate yesterday ordered that 12 Special Task Force (STF) personnel arrested in connection with the 2006 killing of five students be further remanded till Oct. 7.
The 12 suspects, an ASP and 11 constables, were arrested by the CID on July 04 and produced before the Trincomalee Chief Magistrate U. L. M. Azhar, who ordered that they be held in remand at the Anuradhapura Prison.
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| Police investigation on Mandana's "house robbers" on standstill |
| 2013-09-25 |
Investigations regarding the armed gang of thugs who recently broke into the house of Sunday Leader Co-Editor Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema’s house in pursuit of certain documents, have currently come in a standstill, Police sources say.
Ms. Abeywickrema had informed the Secretary of the Ministry of Law and Order retired Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi in writing, about the surprisingly slow pace of the police investigations regarding the matter.
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