The Cost of Living Kate Beckinsale Mahela says from a Spiritual and Daily ready Angle Hot Shots for Windies Page 11 Leisureland Page 16 Vol. 27 No.65 Monday 17th March, 2008 28 Pages Rs. 20 Registered in Sri Lanka as a Newspaper – City Edition Anura no more President rushes to Visumpaya to pay late friend last respects Mr. Anura Bandaranaike, MP MP for Nuwara Eliya-Maskeliya by his late friend. Minister . yesterday passed away at his offi- polling 48,778 votes. He came sec- As a mark of respect, his He held Higher Education port- cial residence Visumpaya, after a ond to , who remains will be taken to folio during President D.B. prolonged illness. polled 65,903 votes, while CWC Parliament, where he spent 31 Wijetunga’s administration. He was 59 years old. leader S. Thondaman came a dis- years as an MP, minister, During Chandrika Bandaranaike The only son of two Prime tant third with only 35,743 votes. Opposition Leader and Speaker. Kumaratunga’s presidency, Anura Ministers, S.W.R.D and Sirimavo, Immediately after Anura’s death During his political career, held two ministries namely Anura, a fiery orator in both was announced, President Anura held the post of the Speaker Investment Promotion, Enterprise Sinhala and English, first entered rushed to during Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Development and Industries and Parliament in 1977 as the second Visumpaya, to pay last respects to two-year tenure as the Prime Continued on page 2 One-to-one pow-wow with TNA MP Prabhakaran promises Kosovo-type solution The LTTE, now LTTE-held area. A senior struggling to stop a TNA MP yesterday con- relentless army firmed the meeting advance into its terri- between a group of TNA tory in the Vanni and MP and the LTTE leader Weli Oya regions, is at their colleagues’ funer- Sarana next UPFA MP expecting the West to al but denied any knowl- come to its rescue. edge of a one-to-one meet- from Gampaha Amidst mounting loss ing with the LTTE leader. of men and material on The LTTE leader had Sarana Gunawardene, who polled 52,288 at the last the Vanni, Weli Oya and assured the TNA that General Election will fill the vacancy created by the death of Jaffna fronts, the LTTE they would be able to the Gampaha District MP Anura Bandaranaike. seems confident of some achieve their goal with Gunawardene (SLFP) contested on the UPFA ticket. kind of foreign interven- the backing of the inter- tion, though New Delhi is national community, supporting Sri Lanka’s sources said adding that efforts to militarily defeat with India turning her the LTTE. back on the LTTE and its Delhi asks Tamil Nadu Authoritative sources sympathisers, the LTTE said LTTE leader had turned to EU coun- Velupillai Prabhakaran tries for support. and Kerala to monitor had expressed his confi- Although the US had dence in what he called a been supportive of Sri LTTE activities Kosovo-type intervention Lanka’s efforts to defeat by the international com- the LTTE, some of its these states to “closely moni- by S Venkat Narayan munity, when he recently actions, particularly the tor” their activities. Our Special Correspondent met with a senior TNA decision to suspend a This was revealed by range of military assis- National Security Adviser MK MP in the Vanni. NEW DELHI, March 16: Sources said the meet- tance to Sri Lanka and The Sri Lankan separatist Narayanan during a visit to a ing had taken place at the severe criticism of its Liberation Tigers of Tamil temple town in Kerala today. Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva yesterday handed over a set of priceless gaja- He said central agencies funeral of TNA MP K. human rights record had Eelam (LTTE) have “small been to the LTTE’s advan- muthu to the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya. The Chief Justice in a recent interview pockets” of influence in Tamil are aware of “the presence of Sivanesan, who died on tage, the sources said. with our sister paper Divaina announced his decision to hand over confiscated Nadu and Kerala, and the cen- small LTTE pockets” in these March 6 in a claymore (SF) valuables to places of religious worship. Pic Nimal Dayaratne. tral Government has asked Continued on page 2 mine explosion in an

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