30 June 2025 | Vol. 11, #111

DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN THE SINHALA AND TAMIL PRESS

Virakesari: “President Anura has followed the footsteps of Mahinda and Gota; appointing Harshana as the secretary to the Ministry of Finance is a bad example” – Champika Ranawaka | Photograph: Five officials from the Indian foreign service who took part in a workshop meet Minister Bimal Rathnayake

Thinakaran: A special team from Colombo to analyse soil samples from Chemmani with the permission of the court | “We are not in a position to hand over Katchatheevu Island” – Chandrasekar | “Dream Destination”: A project to modernise 100 railway stations

Thinakkural: “There are Tamil Rajapaksas in the North; do not be trapped by them; Sumanthiran, who was in the government, did not do anything” – Bimal Rathnayake | “Establish a carbon lab in Sri Lanka to analyse the human skeletons found” – Bimal claims he requested the UN high commissioner [for human rights] | “Katchatheevu cannot be reclaimed by India” – Bimal Rathnayake | “Justice cannot be delivered for Chemmani by the UN high commissioner [for human rights] who cannot condemn Israel’s massacres” – Former Deputy Minister Abdullah Maharoof

Thamilan: Affected due to the halting of development projects: Private companies demand Rs. 40 billion as compensation from the government 

Lankadeepa: Actual prices concealed to evade taxes: 300 vehicles to be re-exported; discrepancy between the vehicles’ bills and the auction’s bill | The NPP chairperson of the Norwood [Pradeshiya Sabha] threatened by the NPP itself; all six members become independent; “No one can be allowed to go beyond the instructions of the party” – Nuwara Eliya District NPP MP Manjula Suraweera Arachchi

Divaina: Seven who flocked to the seas in a struggle to make a living, hidden among the waves (four fishing vessels meet with accidents); seven dead, four bodies recovered and three still missing; in Moragolla, the younger brother’s body recovered not far from the older brother’s; the navy and the air force lunach a search operation to locate the missing persons

Ada: Five fishing vessels meet with accidents over three days; five fishers dead, one missing and 12 rescued | Drugs worth Rs. 23 billion seized in 2025

Mawbima: A hunt for the “captain” of the vehicle assembly racket; three illegal vehicles worth more than 50 million seized; the mastermind is a close associate of a former minister and a resident of Bandaragama | The Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to be repealed in September

Dinamina: Four fishing boat accidents in 48 hours; six dead, two missing

Aruna: Police protection for fuel stations: The acting IGP issues orders to the SDIGs  

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