DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN THE SINHALA AND TAMIL PRESS |
Tamil Headlines
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Virakesari: Easter Sunday attack case hearings concluded; verdict on September 22; written submissions to be filed by September 8 | Do not extend detention; grant an opportunity for a direct meeting: Suresh Sallay’s mother writes letter to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake | Government ready for referendum: Minister Susil Ranasinghe on the 22nd constitutional amendment Thinakaran: Rs. 60 million spent on Chemmani mass grave excavations: 584 human remains exhumed over 110 days; 31 disappeared persons identified | Pictorial: Tamil political leaders join continuous protests demanding release of military-occupied private lands in Valikamam North | Contempt of court allegations: charge sheets referred against 6 individuals including Wimal and Gammanpila |
Thinakkural: Excavating army camps and viharas? Arrest MP Ravikaran immediately! – demands Ven. Battaramulle Seelarathana Thera | Opposition flag raised in Jaffna against the Office on Missing Persons (OMP): call for protest today | Are our 17,000 forcibly disappeared relatives not alive? Tell us the truth! – families of the enforced disappeared | Contempt of court allegations: 6 politicians including Wimal and Gammanpila in trouble! Thamilan: 22nd constitutional amendment – opposition parties hold secret talks! Attempt to gain support from government MPs | 21 petitions filed against proposed new constitutional amendment | New US Ambassador arrives in the country | New electricity tariffs for renewable energy power purchases effective today: PUCSL announcement |
Sinhala Headlines
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Lankadeepa: A mysterious death: Specialist doctor’s body found on a rock in a forest reserve: motor car left abandoned on the road; video call made to spouse before disappearing | Verdict of the main Easter Sunday [attack] trial to be given on September 22: 24 accused; 23,270 charges Divaina: Missing Badulla hospital specialist doctor’s death, is a mystery: performed surgery on a patient before death; body found in Mapakada jungle patch; “three types of medicinal tablets found near the corpse: suspected suicide” – Police; suffered from mental stress as well | El Niño: 12 villages in Padiyathalawa facing severe water shortage: no water even for cattle to drink; 73 irrigation reservoirs halved in capacity; Not only people, but animals too are thirsty!
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Dinamina: Verdict of the main Easter Sunday [attack] trial to be given on September 22: written submissions on September 8; trial spanned 255 days, 547 prosecution witnesses, 23 accused make statements from the witness box | Missing specialist doctor’s body in Loggal Oya reserve: numerous medicine tablets near body; performed several surgeries prior to disappearance Aruna: 1,029 who spat out betel and urinated at the Pettah bus stand, assigned community service: drivers and conductors among them; driver who bottled urine also caught; beggars and sex workers removed |