DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN THE SINHALA AND TAMIL PRESS |
Tamil Headlines
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Virakesari: “Our cooperation for Sri Lanka will continue” – IMF representative Krishna Srinivasan assures the President: Announces that Kristalina Georgieva will visit in February | Pictorial: Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya participating in the national event held yesterday at Athurugiriya Gunasekara Primary School to enrol students into Grade 1 under the new education reforms”Our cooperation for Sri Lanka will continue” – IMF representative Krishna Srinivasan assures the President: Announces that Kristalina Georgieva will visit in February | Pictorial: Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya participating in the national event held yesterday at Athurugiriya Gunasekara Primary School to enrol students into Grade 1 under the new education reforms Thinakaran: 78th Independence Day celebrations: All arrangements completed; Preparations to hold the event grandly under the theme ‘Let’s Rebuild Sri Lanka’ | “New education reforms: Sajith’s state of mind must be examined” – Minister Nalinda Jayatissa | “Those who went abroad improperly during the war period will be allowed to return to the country without disruptions” – Ananda Wijepala |
Thinakkural: “3,203 Sinhalese families to be granted Tamil lands through the Kivul Oya reservoir project” – Condemnation by Father Leo Armstrong, Co-Chair of the Tamil Heritage Forum | Electricity tariffs likely to increase by 20-30 per cent | There is currently no risk of the Nipah virus spreading within Sri Lanka Thamilan: Impose a ban on filling 1,500 vacancies in the Education Administrative Service; Case filed in the Supreme Court! Fundamental Rights petition accepted for hearing | The price of a gold sovereign has exceeded Rs. 400,000 | Attack on a religious Brother; Six police officers released on bail | Corruption case against Rajitha; Retrial on April 29 | Pictorial: Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya participating in the national event held yesterday at Athurugiriya Gunasekara Primary School to enrol students into Grade 1 under the new education reforms |
Sinhala Headlines
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Lankadeepa: The container incident: Chief of Customs summoned before the parliamentary select committee: more officials to be called today and tomorrow; [has been questioned on] information regarding the entry, storage and dispatch of the containers | New UNICEF report makes revelation: 48,000 that were affected by Ditwah still unable to reside in own houses: 2,199 other families still in refugee camps Divaina: Do not disregard Nipah: airports in Asia on alert; “do not worry, the risk is extremely low. The WHO has not imposed travel restrictions; the virus is contracted through long and close contact; health services prepared for urgent treatment if virus is detected” – Health Secretary Dr Anil Jasinghe Mawbima: “Even if the death penalty is received, there is no escape from the ‘anantariya sin’ (heinous crime)” – High Court Judge Ruchira Weliwatta states while giving verdict to son who murdered his mother | Three Central Province Term Test papers, leaked
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Dinamina: State and estate companies enter agreement to increase the plantation worker daily wage to Rs. 1,750: the highest increase in wages recorded in the 200-year-old history of plantation workers Aruna: 24-carat gold sovereign exceeds Rs. 400,000: treasury filled with gold instead of USD; one ounce of gold exceeds USD 5,000 Anidda:Name of the Bursar of the Open University suggested for the post of Auditor General: a graduate of the Kelaniya University: Speaker advises civil society representatives |