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Vol. 31 No.37 Wednesday 28th December, 2011, 44 pages Rs. 20 Registered in Sri Lanka as a Newspaper - City Edition See page 3

PAKISTAN AND TENDULKAR TNA & FREE EDUCATION INDIA RESUME STEERS INDIA LLRC AND THE LSSP CONVENTIONAL DESPITE ELUSIVE 8 10 12 TRUST-BUILDING TALKS 14 MILESTONE

Answering a question from a jour- nalist, the minister ruled out punish- ment to anyone responsible for the SB assures no mess up of results technical error which caused the mix up of the district ranks. Students welcome to apply for transparent re-scrutiny Any student could ask for re-scruti- ny of his/her results and the depart- dents’ results, but it was correct- BY DASUN EDIRISINGHE ment would oblige in a very transpar- ed by the Examination ent manner. He had already discussed Higher Education Minister S. B. answer scripts. Department the following day it with the Education Minister Bandula Dissanayake yesterday assured that Addressing a media confer- after issuing the results. Gunawardena and the Commissioner there was no mess up or contradictions ence at the University Grants “The results or ‘Z’ – scores of General of Examinations Anura in the just released GCE (A/L) exam Commission auditorium, students did not change,” he Edirisinghe and both had expressed results and if some students were not Minister Dissanayake said that said adding that however, it Japan , Myanmar to their readiness to do it, he said. satisfied with their results the min- there was a minor technical would not affect the district have better relations istry was ready to take them individu- error in calculating district ranks when enrolling students Myanmar and its one- ally to see their respective evaluated ranks which was given with stu- SB to universities. time biggest benefactor, Japan, agreed to talks on a bilateral investment treaty and took other steps toward better relations as the Japanese foreign minister visited Monday. Reformists’ plot: Ancient seal found in Jerusalem A rare clay seal found Ranil to pursue under Jerusalem’s Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals prac- ticed at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, Israeli archaeologists German NGO’s role said Sunday.

BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO NP Assistant Leader the appointment of a China dairy producer Joseph Michael Perera Parliamentary Select Committee destroys tainted milk Usaid yesterday that the (PSC)to inquire into a conspira- decision making Advisory cy involving a section of his China’s biggest Committee of the party would party,the German NGO and milk producer decide next week on further Sirasa media network, Perera destroyed a batch action on UNP Leader Ranil said that he couldn’t comment found to have exces- Wickremesinghe’s allegation on a statement attributed to The Army’s premier seat of learning, Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA) at Diyatalawa on Tuesday sive levels of a cancer- that a German NGO had con- Wickremesinghe. However, the had the first-ever foreign President Mohamed Nasheed at the year-end Commissioning Parade as Joseph Michael causing toxin, in anoth- spired with a section of the entire gamut of issues would be the Chief Guest. A total of 189 Cadet Officers, including one Maldivian graduated in the colourful er safety scare for the country’s dairy industry. party to oust him from the lead- discussed at the forthcoming ceremony. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development was associated with ership. Advisory Committee meeting. the day’s proceedings. Asked by The Island whether the An aide to Wickremesinghe told The India activist fasts to party intended to pursue the matter, the Island that the party chief was out of Gampaha District MP said that the the country.According to him, Fire at call for tougher graft law Advisory Committee would meet on Wickremesinghe would be back on Jan. Tangalle killing: An Indian activist began Jan. 4 and 5 to discuss the future course 2. a three-day hunger strike of action. Asked whether he was appointed the Russian , Deputy Acting Leader before Wickremesinghe Russian victim moved Tuesday calling for Leader , Assistant left the country on Monday, Deputy Parliament to pass a tougher embassy Leader Joseph Michael Perera, party Leader Premadasa replied in the nega- to Lanka Hospital version of an anti-corruption Chairman Gamini Jayawickrema tive. A fire that broke out in bill than the one federal law- Perera, National Organizer Daya Chief Opposition Whip John BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO a store room of the makers were debating. Gamage and UNP General Secretary Amaratunga and General Secretary Sri Lanka Tourism section of the press, Russian embassy, at Sir would join the discus- Attanayake, too, are out of the country. chief Dr. Nalaka that the woman had Ernest de Silva Mawatha, sions, the former Speaker said. Premadasa declined to comment on Godahewa yesterday been molested. The Colombo 07, last evening was put out by the City When pointed out that the impending Advisory Committee told The Island that official said that the Pakistani Christian’s Fire Brigade. Wickremesinghe had publicly declared meeting. the Russian woman, Russian embassy staff Fire Brigade sources fear of being poisoned his readiness to move parliament for Victoria, who had on Tuesday received received injuries access to the victim, said as the store room had A Pakistani Christian while trying to save who related her no windows but only a on death row after being her husband, ordeal, and single door and they had convicted of blasphemy Khuram she had not to remove the roofing has described how she JHU claims LLRC Shaikh, target- complained sheets of the room to tack- has to cook her own ed by a gang at about being le the fire. It had not been meals for fear of being poisoned in her first Nature Resorts raped. a full blown fire but a case interview since being condemned to hang. overstepped mandate in Tangalle Sri Lanka’s of bellowing of smoke over the last ambassador from smoldering air-con- weekend, was in Moscow, ditioning insulation wool Rejects devolution recommendation moved to too, had been that was stored in the China continues BY RAJITH SAVANADASA AND IFHAM NIZAM Lanka present when room. The fire had fortu- General low partyman and legal advisor Udaya Hospitals from Nalaka the Russian nately not spread to other Christmas crackdown the government embassy staff Secretary and Power and Energy Gammanpila said that there should be a materials in the room. China continued its teaching hospital at interviewed her at Minister said yes- referendum to decide whether power The Fire Brigade had Christmas jailings of Karapitiya. Lanka Hospitals, the terday that the LLRC had over- should be devolved. been alerted to the fire by democracy activists on British national official said. stepped its mandate by recom- Speaking at a media confer- the police at about 5.00 Shaikh succumbed to Among the persons Monday by sentencing mending devolution of power, ence in Colombo, yesterday to p.m. and two water injuries caused by a T- now in custody in con- Chen Xi, another veteran which was a political issue highlight the JHU stand on the bowsers and a fire engine 56 assault weapon and nection with the Tiananmen Square protest- beyond its scope. LLRC report, both Ranawaka had rushed to the scene sharp objects. killing is Chairman of er to prison for a decade. “Devolution of power will not and Gammanpila reiterated that and put out the fire in less Responding to a the Tangalle be carried out to please the TNA the report was one-sided in its than an hour. query, Dr. Godahewa Pradeshiya Sabha or foreign conspirators. If there focus. emphasized that there Sampath is any division of power, it will They said the ‘silent majority’ Champika was absolutely no Chandrapushpa, an Morales hopes to build be conducted at the behest of the Sinhala victims of the war had truth in reports, in a railway to Peru people”, he said. Adding to Ranawaka’s comments, fel- Bolivia’s presi- dent said Monday that he hopes to build a new railway linking his country Outstation students grab most top honours to Peru that would facilitate exports to Asia. Colombo 07, obtained the first place. BY DASUN EDIRISINGHE Kamala Kannan Kamalavasan, of Uduppidy Outstation students have won top hon- American Mission College, in the Jaffna ! ours at this year’s GCE (A/L) examination, District, obtained the highest marks in the SB assures no mess up of results. Al-Qaida says it was except in the Bio Science stream, according Mathematics stream. to results released by the Examinations The much delayed GCE A/L results were ! He must be talking of the future. behind Baghdad blasts Department on Sunday. finally released by the examination depart- Current results are messed up. An al-Qaida front Two of the top performers were girls. ment on Sunday night. The group in Iraq has The sources said that Ishara Dilhani results were delayed due to claimed responsibility for Gamage of the Debarawewa Central issues related to having to tab- the wave of terrifying Collegem in the Hambantota District ulate two different sets of ‘Z’ attacks that rocked obtained the best results in the Commerce Sachinthani Ishara Dilhani scores for enrolling of stu- Baghdad last week and stream while Sachinthani Kaushalya Kaushalya Gamage dents to universities, as this killed 69 people. Senanayake, of St. Joseph’s Balika in year’s examination was con- Kegalle, secured the top position in the Arts In the bio science stream, Pramith ducted under two different syl- stream. Ruwan Pathirana, of Royal College labuses.