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Jun 30, Colombo: For the fourth consecutive month Sri Lanka's inflation decreased to 4.8 percent in June from a 5.3 percent in May 2010, Central Bank's Department of Census and Statistics figures released today showed. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Kiev City: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa today participated in a wreath laying ceremony at Ukraine's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kiev Park of Eternal Glory. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: A team from the British High Commission in Colombo along with the Acting British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Mark Gooding and United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) is currently visiting Sri Lanka's war-torn North. Read the Full Article

The United Nations says its security officials are monitoring comments made by government Minister Wimal Weerawansa who had today urged the public to surround the UN office in Colombo and hold its staff hostage over the UN panel.

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Jun 30, Kyiv: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a five-day official visit to Ukraine met Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych today in the capital Kyiv. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Kyiv: Sri Lanka and Ukraine today established a joint Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and a Business Council to open new opportunities to develop active cooperation of the two countries in various fields including oil exploration and hydroelectric power production in Sri Lanka. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Kyiv: Sri Lanka and Ukraine today established a joint Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and a Business Council to open new opportunities to develop active cooperation of the two countries in various fields including oil exploration and hydroelectric power production in Sri Lanka. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Consumer Affairs Minister Johnston Fernando has announced that the prices of domestic LP gas will be reduced effective midnight Wednesday (30). Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan today said that he did not encounter any obstacles in shooting his new movie, Ready, in Sri Lanka and that he would not have any problems in screening the movie in South India. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has handed in an application Wednesday to Sri Lanka's Elections Commissioner to register it as a political party. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka's former Army Commander and Democratic National Alliance parliamentarian retired General Sarath Fonseka has handed an application today to the Elections Commissioner to register a new political party under his leadership. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka government coalition party National Freedom Front (NFF) leader and Minister of Housing and Construction Wimal Weerawansa vowed today to launch a fast unto death unless the panel advised by the United Nations Secretary-General to advise him on Sri Lanka is not dissolved. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: Colombo Fort magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayarathna today ordered confiscation of seven accounts belonged to Danuna Tilakaratne, the son-in-law of former Sri Lanka Army Commander and defeated presidential candidate retired General Sarath Fonseka. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Kyiv: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a five-day official visit to Ukraine met Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych today in the capital Kyiv. Read the Full Article

Jun 30, Colombo: President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a five-day official visit in Ukraine was scheduled to meet the President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych this morning for bilateral talks. Read the Full Article

The price of a 12.5 Kg Shell gas cylinder will be reduced by Rs 117 and the price of a 12.5 Kg Laugfs gas cylinder will be reduced by Rs 85 with effect from midnight tonight, Consumer affairs minister Johnston Fernando told reporters a short while ago.

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In a discussion between Ukranian President Victor Yanukovych and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today, Ukraine has decided that it will take part in exploration for oil in Sri Lanka

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Bollywood Superstar Salman Khan says he is not worried about the repercussions which may arise in South India as a result of his decision to shoot his latest movie‘Ready’ in Sri Lanka. Read the Full Article

General Sarath Fonseka has submitted an application to Elections Chief Dayananda Dissanayaka seeking to form his own party under the name ‘Democratic People’s Alliance with Tiran Alles as the General Secretary

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Minister Wimal Weerawansa has urged the public to surround the UN office in Sri Lanka and trap the staff inside until a decision is taken by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to dissolve the panel he appointed on Sri Lanka.

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Speaker Chamal Rajapakse today warned Deputy Highways Minister Mervyn Silva that he will be sent out of the chamber if he continues to behave in an unruly manner inside the parliament premises

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The Indian High Commission today refused to accept the body of an Indian national who had been killed and dumped on the beach in Mundalama on Sunday allegedly by a senior CID officer and a businessman from Wellawatta

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The Colombo Fort Magistrate has ordered the CID to confiscate the property of Dhanuna Tillekaratna, the son-in-law of General Sarath Fonseka after he failed to appear in court before a deadline of 9.00 a.m. today

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The LTTE international network has offered to co-operate with the UN panel appointed by UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon to advice him on Sri Lanka and also urged the committee to protect witnesses who come forward to testify 

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Jun 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) affiliated National Trade Union Center President and JVP politburo member K.D. Lalkantha vowed to initiate trade union action to win relief to the workers in the private, public and estate sectors in the country. Read the Full Article