DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN THE SINHALA AND TAMIL PRESS |
Tamil Headlines
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Virakesari: Apply pressure to withdraw both bills: Opposition MPs jointly urge international diplomats; envoys request comprehensive comparative analytical report | Monks’ satyagraha campaign concludes: Viharamahadevi Park protest temporarily suspended following written assurance from mahanayake theras | Prof. Raj Somadeva’s speculative conclusions must not be taken as final word; immediate intervention by an independent international expert panel required: Equal Rights Movement demands on Chemmani mass grave Thinakaran: Permanent solution to temporary LP gas shortage: 700,000 cylinders distributed islandwide; another gas ship arrives today | Severe bus-train collision at Koggala level crossing: 10 children under emergency treatment at Karapitiya and Unawatuna hospitals; bus driver and conductor arrested | Sri Lanka fully committed to regional peace and maritime security; Iran conflict serves no party’s interests: Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya |
Thinakkural: Chemmani mass grave controversy: Were victims of fatal diseases buried, or were they executed and interred? What do the excavated skeletal remains reveal? | Two Hindu temples must not be reconstructed within Anuradhapura Sacred City Development Plan; it will cause issues for Sinhala Buddhists, asserts MP Dayasiri Jayasekara | Prof. Raj Somadeva’s Chemmani report itself provides the biggest evidence; essential document to reach international justice Thamilan: Only 28% spent from last year’s capital allocation; this exposes the government’s true capabilities, charges MP Mano Ganesan | Litro gas issues new announcement: 700,000 LPG cylinders to be distributed across the country by the 27th | Surging household debt burden in Sri Lanka: public borrowing reaches critical highs |
Sinhala Headlines
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Lankadeepa: The speaker’s no-confidence motion removed from the order book: The government informs the opposition to hand it over again after amendments; “We are not prepared to do that” – The opposition | Chemmani is not a [mass] grave but a cemetery: A group goes to court against Prof. Raj Somadeva’s report Divaina: “The bus went ahead even as the train was oncoming” – An eyewitness: 10 students hospitalised after the bus that brought them on an excursion collided with a train in Koggala; no railway gate where the accident occurred | What was seized at the Talalla beach was Dehibale’s drugs! Worth Rs. 11.8 billion; a dinghy seized with 239.764 kg of ice in 200 parcels and 321.941 kg of heroin in 275 parcels
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Dinamina: The largest haul of drugs seized on land in the South: Intelligence information was received at the very moment it was shipped from overseas; 561 kg and worth Rs. 12 billion; the work of Dehibale Malli and Paravi Suda Aruna: Rs. 11 billion worth of ice and drugs sent by Dehibale Malli in Georgia emerges from Matara: The largest haul of drugs found on land |