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PM assures religious freedom
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse re-affirmed his commitment to protect the freedom of worship of all citizens of the country and said that it is a right that could be denied to nobody could be denied under any circumstances.
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Ranil to hold referendum on solution to ethnic issue
by Zacki Jabbar
Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that on being elected president he would hold a referendum to find a solution to the ethnic conflict.
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Hisbullah returns
by our Batticaloa corr Mohamed Ghouse
Former Media and Telecommunications Deputy Minister M. L. A. M. Hisbullah yesterday re-joined the SLMC at a function held at Kattankudy attended by SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem
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Lanka poll campaigning focuses on peace, prices
AP
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s two main candidates for the presidency launched their campaigns at the weekend promising peace at last for the shattered island and lower consumer prices.
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LTTE-held areas to have poll booths
Sassanka Samarakkody
Arrangements have been made to set up polling stations in the North and East on a cluster basis to enable the people in the LTTE-held areas to vote in the upcoming presidential elections.
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Chandrika holds talks with Mahinda
Sassanka Samarakkody
PRESIDENT Chandrika Kumaratunga, who returned to the island on Saturday, after attending the 33rd Session of the Unesco general conference in Paris, met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse to discuss a range of contentious issues relating to his presidential election campaign.
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UNP will make Galle another Colombo 7 in six years - Vajira Abeywardane
Lalaji Manawadu
AMBALANGODA: It is difficult to develop a country like ours with only the local sources of income. We have to get loans from other countries in the world to attend to urgent development ventures although some pandits have negative attitudes to procuring loans. Who is the idiot who advocates not to get loans. We will have to get a loan of rupees nine hundred thousand million from the world in order to carry out the proposed ventures in the UNP manifesto when our leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe forms the next government, subsequent to winning presidential polls, on November 17.
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