More staff from the state electronic and print media including a deputy Director of the state owned television Rupavahini, are under probe for their alleged involvement in a coup attempt by the opposition against the government.
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Several buildings and land belonging to the opposition Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) located at Tissamaharama was sealed off by the authorities today claiming they were being occupied illegally, the JVP media unit told Daily Mirror online.
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India’s new National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Sunday, and discussed the resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka and a political arrangement, the Hindu reported.
The UNP General Secretary in a letter addressed to President Mahinda Rajapaksa today alleged that union activists and employees of the Transport Board, Port Authority and several other government intuitions island wide were being planed not to be allowed to report to work tomorrow.
The Army has not received any invitation to take part in training exercises and combat courses overseas especially for the special forces and army commandos following the white flag allegations raised by former army chief General Sarath Fonseka.
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Eight months into the death of LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran, the proclaimed offender in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, India is yet to receive his death certificate from the Sri Lankan authorities. Both governments are in touch over this.
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa has revoked a decision to cancel the visa of a Swiss journalist who is in Sri Lanka to cover the Presidential elections. The journalist of a Swiss radio station was earlier ordered to leave by tomorrow, officials said.
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa has revoked a decision to cancel the visa of a Swiss journalist who is in Sri Lanka to cover the Presidential elections. The journalist of a Swiss radio station was earlier ordered to leave by tomorrow, officials said.
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Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama says foreign countries cannot interfere in Sri Lanka’s domestic affairs, including on the outcome of the just concluded Presidential elections, as Sri Lanka is a democratic country.
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Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka, speaking at a press briefing a short while ago, warned that he will expose government secrets should anything happen to him and demanded that the government stop harassing him.
The Nugegeoda office premises belonging to the ‘Lanka’ newspaper was sealed off by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Police Spokesman SSP I. M Karunaratne confirmed to Daily Mirror online.
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