2 Monday 3rd July, 2006 Are you a lucky winner?

SUPIRI VASANA DEVELOPMENT SATURDAY HOSPITAL LOTTERY MAHAJANA SHRAMA VASANA JAYODA VASANA SAMPATHA SAMPATHA FORTUNE Draw No.28 Draw No: 249 Draw No: 888 Draw No: 792 FORTUNE Draw No.616 SAMPATHA Draw No: 350 Draw Date: Draw Date: Draw No: 1832 Draw Date: Date: 25.06.2006 Draw No: 1723 Date:22-06-2006 Date: Date: 01-07-2006 29-06-2006 02-07-2006 Draw Date: 30-06-2006 Winning Nos. Winnings Nos 01-07-2006 Zodiac: Taurus Winning Nos: Super No:16 Winning Nos: 30-06-2006 Winning Nos: 02 07 17 60 Winning Nos: 10- 30- 36- 55 08-15-23-28 Winning Nos : 12-25-39-43-50 Winning Nos: F 29 -31 -54 - 55 Super No.58 Bonus No. 44 06-12-31-50 Super No.04 3 - 0 -1 - 1- 4 - 0 Bonus No:14 Y-2-8-8-3-0-5

More go DIG’s lawyer daughter offended hungry with oil at security measures price by Wimal Keerthi — Negombo her vehicle in the Court complex. visiting the Magistrate’s Court premises The lawyer was told by the police that and summoning the two Police consta- The Lawyer daughter of a senior DIG only the Magistrates’ vehicles were bles for a statement about the incident. hikes is alleged to have taken offence when two allowed inside the court premises. The The incident has caused a furore Police constables, on duty at the infuriated lady layer had reportedly amongst lawyers of the Negombo Court The 10th Negombo Magistrate’s Court, citing secu- called a her DIG father resulting in a Complex and resentment amongst traffic anniversary of the rity reasons, had not allowed her to park police high up from the Negombo Police police men. Asian Society for Solid State Ionic was celebrated at Peradeniya by the Post-Graduate Road, rail link key issue at SAARC meet had been aggravated with the rise of Institute of Science & Faculty of world oil prices. The more it rises the by Harischandra Gunaratna However, sources close to the Minister revealed With member countries rallying together and Science, Peradeniya. more people will have to face the threat that he is unlikely attend this mornings opening cer- making a concerted effort to boost South Asia as a Professor Tissa Vitarana, Minister of of hunger. We must have a solution for One of the key issues to be discussed at the sec- emony, since he is away in the Maldives attending top tourism destination, India has launched a web- Science & Technology who was the our energy problem. ond two day meeting of the Working Group on the ceremonial opening of New Aitken Spence resort site on Human Resource Development, a Compact chief guest stated; “we have to be con- He thanked the Asian Society for Tourism of SAARC today in will be the on the invitation of its chairman Harry Jayawardane. Disc, a tourism quiz, Bangladesh will come out with scious of the fact that 29% of people in Solid State Ionic for paying particular establishment of direct air links between SAARC With the year 2006 declared as the “South Asia a poster, Nepal a travel guide, Pakistan a brochure this country are malnourished. More attention in the field of advanced mate- countries, direct road and rail links between member Tourism Year” all member countries will implement on various SAARC tours. Maldives is yet to than one million, mainly young people, rials for emerging technologies. “As sci- countries and special air packages Tourism Ministry various projects and has already issued a announce what they will undertake while Bhutan has are unemployed. Many Asian countries entists & technologists we have a duty Secretary Dr. Prathap Ramnujan, said. commemorative stamp and a picture post card not undertaken anything in particular announced have the problem of unemployment and to focus our scientific efforts on devel- A comprehensive tourism policy, formulated by depicting places of tourist interest in the region to George Micheal Deputy Director General of the Sri poverty. The gap between the rich and oping technologies that will be afford- the Tourism ministry to boost Lanka’s image will be mark the event while visit South Asia label has been Lanka Tourist Board. the poor countries is the technology able to countries like ours, to our people presented at this morning’s meeting which will be printed on various documents. A booklet titled Best Exchange programme for students, special dis- gap. and to bridge the technology gap.” attended by 14 key delegates from SAARC. Practices of Eco, Cultural and Nature Tourism within counts for tourism sites will be offered as well while The Minister explained that poverty Concessionary rates will be offered to SAARC the SAARC region Tourism SAARC countries and a issuance of SAARC visas for officials who frequent- member country nationals visiting archaeological documentary film on SAARC tourism will also be ly travel to member countries are an outcome of the sites Ramnujan, said. released by the Sri Lanka chapter said Ramnujan. efforts made at the previous meetings noted He was addressing a news conference in this To create awareness among the local communi- Ramnujan adding that Sri Lanka government is issu- People who make distinctive contributions connection. ty on the importance of tourism a three minute bul- ing visa on arrival to those traveling here from mem- Chief Guests at this key South Asian tourism letin is broadcast SLBC, City FM channels on ber countries. not given due credit – Sarath Amunugama event will be Tourism Minister Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, thrice a day, The event will be hosted by the Tourism Ministry, By Don Asoka Wijewardena with local resources and services of engineers and sci- and Chairman of SAARC Chamber of Commerce while the popular programme titled “Serisara” has Sri Lanka Tourist Board, Sri Lanka Convention entific community were required. and Industry Pradeep Madhavi. been already telecast on Rupawahini. Bureau and the Foreign Ministry. People who make distinctive contributions are not He outlined that the Government had pledged to given the credit and honour due to them. “I wish to release a great deal of money, particularly for infrastruc- assure them that the Government is appreciative of the ture development and it was obvious that Sri Lanka crucial role engineers play in the development of the could not expand the infrastructure sector unless the country”, said Public Administration and Home Affairs engineering and scientific community placed a leading Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama at the Exhibition of the role. Incorporated Engineers held at BMICH. Amunugama emphasised that engineers should be Dr. Amunugama said that in very broad terms 20 per able to point out all infrastructure projects necessary and SATURDAY FORTUNE cent of the national growth was contributed by the agri- must give their views on technical feasibilities of proj- Date: 01-07-2006 Draw No.:1723 cultural sector, 30 per cent by the industrial sector and ects. Serial Nos: 50 per cent by the services sector. He noted that Electricity demand had been going up Referring to the engineers’ role, Amunugama said at 10 per cent per year and added that the country was Colombo 301182745-6-76 that it was extremely important to expand the industrial unable to keep in line with power generation plans and Kurunegala 301182410-7-37 sector with intervention of engineers to bring modern engineers were required to contribute their technical Polonnaruwa 301185846-7-10 concepts, modern knowledge and modern science to knowledge to find alternative sources of power as the Nuwara Eliya 301184865-3-49 that sector as more people were investing in this area energy crisis had already engulfed the country. Gampaha 301173273-8-29 UNP offer... From page 1 Serial numbers of the tickets that won the set of Jewellery, Sig- Sag Sewing Machine and Foot Bicycle worth over Rs. 120,000/- Political sources said that a political economy. But Wickremesinghe discarded pact between the UPFA and UNP was the proposal demanding the impossible. He The welfare society of the Industrial Development unlikely. Acknowledging the impossibility wanted absolute power in a country with Ministry Hands over a donation of essential foods of a UPFA-UNP pact now, a veteran politi- an executive presidential system and did and equipment to the chief incumbent of the cian said that they almost succeeded in not give much thought to the proposal as Dharmayathanaya, Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thero to be distributed among the victims. The New Year August 2001. But Wickremesinghe scuttled his aim was to be the President late 2005. festival organized by the welfare society was can- the proposal, he said. After two days of A workable agreement could have easily celed due to the prevailing situation time and negotiations the parties agreed that the pre-empted the inevitable SLFP-JVP coali- according to the instructions of the Industrial then President tion that inflicted a heavy defeat at the Development Minister the goods should invite Wickremesinghe to be the April 2004 general elections. and donations, which were to be used for the Bak Prime Minister. The UNP never released the N.G.P. CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA Maha Ulela, were used for this donation. The president of the welfare society Epa The SLFP delegation included Mahinda Panditharatne’s report which dealt with ISSUE OF TREASURY BILLS Dayarathne and its organizer ministry consultant Rajapakse, , the April 2004 defeat. The Panditharatne Sirisena Jayawardena hand over the donations to , Nimal Siripala de Commission called for far reaching Rs. 9,045 million Treasury Bills are being re-issued on an the Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thero. Silva, and D. M. reforms, attacked their media strategists auction basis on 05th July, 2006 Jayaratne. while severely criticising the parliamen- British School awards , Charitha Ratwatte, tary group, particularly ministers whom Details of this Treasury Bill re-issue are as follows: The British School in Colombo will stage its Tyronne Fernando and K. N. Choksy had the Commission accused of waste, corrup- represented the UNP.The two parties were colours awards ceremony on Tuesday (4) at the tion, mismanagement and links with unde- Maturity Period 91 Days 182 Days 364 Days Total to divide 30 Cabinet portfolios equally.This school auditorium at 12. 45 pm. Chief Guest will sirable elements. Amount Maturing (Rs. Mn.) 7,629 938 1,199 9,766 was to be a three-year arrangement with Wickremesinghe refused to acknowl- be Chokathy, Chairman, British school in Amount Offered (Rs. Mn.) 2,800 2,745 3,500 9,045 the focus on the national issue and the edge reality until just before the last presi- Colombo. (GP) Amount Reserved (Rs. Mn.) 377 344 – 721 dential polls nominations when he urged ISIN Number LKA09106J062 LKA18207A058 LKA36407G067 Kumaratunga to “seek a platform of con- Date of Auction : 05th July, 2006 JVP wants... From page 1 sensus.” But by that time Rajapakse had Date of Settlement / Date of Issue : 07th July, 2006 the upper hand. The LTTE undermined his engines to Punochchimunai in Tiger held areas of aid. Closing date and time of tenders : Wednesday, 05th July 2006 at 11.00 a.m. bid at the presidency by denying him the the Batticaloa district. Security forces made the According to the survey, 256 NGOs had received Minimum amount of a bid : Rupees five million (Rs. 5,000,000/-) and multiples of Tamil vote in the Northern and Eastern Rupees one million (Rs. 1,000,000/-) there onwards. detection last Thursday. The project in donations and other funds amounting to Rs. 40.1 bn provinces, thereby ensuring a Rajapakse Punochchimunai is part of a 600,000 Euro project by way of credits to their bank accounts from various Details of the last primary auction held on 28th June 2006 are given below: victory. funded by an Italian NGO. Police also detained the foreign and local sources during 2005. The survey Political sources said Rajapakse would 91 Days 182 Days 364 Days Total lorry driver identified as Mutturkumarasamy revealed that 73% of total foreign remittances were not ditch his allies who helped to win pres- Bids Received (Rs. Mn.) 8,755 3,823 4,595 17,173 Uthayakumar at the Manampitiya checkpoint. received by 30 NGOs, each receiving foreign remit- idency. Amount Accepted (Rs. Mn.) 5,213 513 2,195 7,921 Weerawansa said that on the pretext of being tances in the range of 1% to 12% of total foreign Weighted Average Price (per Rs. 100/=) 97.53 95.04 90.54 engaged in tsunami rehabilitation, the TRO is receiv- remittances. The TRO is among them. ing international assistance on behalf of the LTTE. Further, it was revealed that nearly 79% of funds Weighted Average Yield (per cent p.a.) 10.16 10.44 10.45 DEATH This makes mockery of the recent EU ban, he said received in the bank accounts of all NGOs during Bids are invited from the Primary Dealers. Bids should be made only through the electronic network system. referring to European NGOs dealing with a known 2005 had been withdrawn. The 30 NGOs referred to ELLAWALA — JOSEPH RANJIT. terrorist front. He cited a Central Bank report which above had withdrawn 85% of funds received in their (Retired Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom), The general public is invited to purchase Treasury Bills from the identified the TRO as a major recipient of tsunami bank accounts during the year 2005. beloved husband of Nalini, Darling following Primary Dealers and other Secondary Market Participants father and father-in-law of Nimali and Bank of Ceylon 2541938 NatWealth Securities Ltd. 4703000 Roshan Ranasinghe, late Nilukshi and of Capital Alliance Ltd. 2317777 NSB Fund Management Co. Ltd. 2564706 Unions call... From page 1 Niranga and Dhinuk, frong Grand father Ceylinco Shriram Securities Ltd. 2564936 People’s Bank 2304484 of Shevy and Daniella, son of Late Mr. The workers pay packet severely under inflation- ward as a pro-employer policy. At the same time con- Commercial Bank of Ceylon Ltd. 2332319 Sampath Surakum Ltd. 2305842 and Mrs. Herman Ellawala, son-in-law of ary pressure cannot any longer be adequate to tract labour for permanent job situations and out- late Mr. Edmund and of Mrs. Betsy First Capital Treasuries Ltd. 2304430 Seylan Bank Asset Management Ltd. 2456340 secure the needed nourishment for a worker’s sourcing of industrial work to outside contractors HNB Securities Ltd. 2661199 Gunasena, beloved brother and brother- dependents. It is in this situation that the country has receive support from the state. This will certainly in-law of Ranee and Lionel Dassanayake, Dr. W. M. Hemachandra been pushed to a war situation in which a large pro- affect the jobs and conditions of labour of permanent Manel, Nihal and Shani, Lakshmanand Actg. Superintendent / Registrar of Public Debt portion of government funds will need to be chan- workers too both in the state and private sectors. The Gerry, Senaka and Chintha, late Rohan, The Public Debt Department nelled to purchasing armaments without any trans- policy of privatization of state-owned business and Srilal and of Anoja, Nihal and Nelum Central Bank of Sri Lanka parency thus denying any real benefit to the country. workplace is being followed by the present govern- Gunasena. Funeral took place on Sunday 30, Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo 1. Worker rights too have been affected especially in ment too as in the case of privatization measures 2nd July at he General Cemetery Borella Telephone: 2477281 Fax: 2477718-9 the private employment sector. The Termination of mooted for the electricity generating supply and the (Roman Catholic Section), BQ 1/7, http://www.centralbanklanka.org Employment Act which was meant to cushion work- utilization of water resources. Matha Road, Manning Town Flats, ers against termination in retrenchment and work- In this distrustful situation the working class can- Colombo 08. 30, Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo 1. place closure situations has been amended and not place their trust in the government to protect and Telephone: 2477000, 24440330, 2330220 maintained so as to enable employers to terminate secure their rights. The CFL and the GWTUF are of A.F. RAYMOND LTD. services of workmen on disciplinary and other mat- the firm view that the working class has to marshal its FUNERAL DIRECTORS E-mail [email protected] ters too under the protection of the Act. This amend- forces to compel this government to rectify the situa- SILENTLY SERVING THE NATION web site: http//www.centralbanklanka.org ment was made by a UNP government and the pres- tion with the objective of giving to the people the nec- Phone: 693737 / 8, 694474. ent government has strengthened it and taken it for- essary relief. Fax: 94-1- 685632