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Fighting erupts again.
Government forces and Tiger rebels fought pitched
battles along the A9 highway today morning and
according to unconfirmed reports both sides suffered
heavy casualties.
The LTTE in a news release faxed to the Colombo based
media institutions claimed that large number of
soldiers were either killed or wounded in action. But,
military officials refuted the claim as "cacophony
propaganda". The fighting erupted north of Elephant
Pass. At the time this article was submitted for
online publication fighting was continuing.
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Sri Lankan government calls for new development
chapter.
Acting Sri Lankan Foreign minister Laksman Kiriella
called for a new development chapter which would
reconcile in the world economy with imperatives on
development, with adequate safe guards against any
negative aspects of globalization.
Kiriella made this appeal at the plenary session of
the South Summit,which concluded in Havana last week.
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Prelates urge Norwegian government to expedite the
peace process.
Country's leading prelates urged the Norwegian
government to expedite the peace process to bring an
end to the on going 17 year old conflict to an end
which had caused the lives of over 60,000 people.
The prelates in a letter to the Norwegian Ambassador
in Sri Lanka requested his assistance to mediate a
consensus between the warring factions immediately,
thus it would bring peace to this tear drop shaped
Island in the Indian Ocean.
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UNP leader in India.
The United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil
Wickrmasinghe arrived in India on a Week long tour
today.
Wickrmasinghe, during his stay in India will hold
talks with the top Indian politicians in an aim to
bring the on going conflict in Sri Lanka to end.The
UNP sources in Colombo said that Wickrmasinghe is
expected to
hold talks with several leaders including with the
South Indian chief minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi, a
former supporter of the LTTE.
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General Election on the cards.
Speculation was rife that the government may hold the
General elections in the first week of September this
year.
A spokesman for the Election Commissioners department
in Colombo said they have been instructed to prepare
themselves to hold the General elections, but were
unable to confirm as to when the elections would be
held. The term of the present Parliament expires in
August of this year.
Government sources said there are moves to hold the
elections before August but the decision with
President Chandrika Kumaratunge who is away on
official assignments.
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Tamil militant group members on a theft charge.
A Tamil militant group was blamed for robbing a sum of
Rupees 100,000 from an orphanage school in Batticaloa
on Monday.
It is alleged that the members of the Tamil Militant
group, Razik stormed into the Ramakrishna orphanage
school in Batticaloa and robbed the cash the money
from the safe box after threatening to assassinate the
manager of the school.
Razik group members are notorious in the region for
extorting cash from the civilians.
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