Vol. 31 No.115 Saturday 31st March, 2012, 24 pages Rs. 20 Registered in Sri Lanka as a Newspaper - City Edition NATIONAL INTERESTS POST-MORTEM AHIMSA’ OR Cops in the AND FOREIGN ON GENEVA ‘PANATA PANAK’ pen after clash 6 10 RELATIONS with PSD ‘India will outpace China to become Three Indian trained men arrested Five policemen, attached to the Rangala Police, were remanded on Friday world’s No. 1 Economy by 2050’ till April 2 over a clash with a group of per- over EPDP cadre’s killing sonnel attached to the Presidential BY S VENKAT NARAYAN OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT BY HEMANTHA RANDUNU AND SAMAN MALLAWARACHCHI Security Division, including a Captain of NEW DELHI, March 29: India will out- overtake China’s $80.02 trillion. By then, Police investigating the killing of an the victim as a traitor claiming that the the Army. pace China to become the world’s largest the United States will be downgraded as Sources said that the suspects had economy by 2050, a global property firm the third largest economy. EPDP cadre, identified as Ragunathan LTTE had killed him. Muththu had allegedly obstructed two vehicles in which has claimed. “China will overtake the US to alias Muththu, on March 17 at been with the LTTE before joining the the PSD officers were travelling on According to a forecast made by become the world’s largest economy by Periyakulam, Trincomalee, have arrest- EPDP. Knight Frank and Citi Pvt Bank, India 2020. In turn, China will be overtaken by ed three Sri Lankan Tamils who Investigators said that the suspects will boast of a gross domestic product India in 2050,” The Times of India today received weapons training in South had carried out the killing after arriv- (GDP) of $85.97 trillion in terms of pur- quoted the report as saying. India. ing in Trincomalee by boat from South chasing power parity (PPP), and will A leaflet left near the body identified Tigers ready to exploit London Olympics Bangladesh plans to build its first satellite !Push for ‘international safety An American firm will help Bangladesh design and launch the South Asian coun- net’ for people living in N & E try’s first satellite.Officials say Space Partnership International signed a $10 BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO million consultancy deal with the state-run The LTTE is now citing the US-spon- the war in the Eastern Provincein view Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission in Dhaka on Thursday. sored resolution on Sri Lanka, recently of Sri Lanka’s protests. adopted in Geneva, to support a major Headed by US-based V. propaganda campaign to coincide with Rudrakumaran, a close associate of the forthcoming London Olympics. slain LTTE leader, Velupillai With various LTTE front organiza- Prabhakaran, the TGTE was pushing for ‘Good chance’ of oil tions exploiting the Geneva resolution to three key demands, including a referen- promote separatist sentiments in Sri dum on the right of Tamil speaking peo- stock release Lanka, the self-styled Transnational ple living in the Northern and Eastern France’s prime minister Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) Provinces for self-determination, GoSL said Thrusday that there’s a has called ‘human rights lovers’ the- sources said. “good chance” the United world over to use the London Olympics Rudrakumaran inaugurated the States and Europe will (July 27 to August 12) to undermine TGTE at a three-day conference held in agree to release oil reserves into the market to drive down crude what it calls the genocidal Sri Lankan May at the National Constitutional prices, but discussions were still ongoing. State. Centre, Philadelphia. Tamil sources said The London headquartered Amnesty that the TGTE, which pursued a sepa- President Mahinda Rajapaksa hands over a special award to Dr. Lester James Peiris for International conducted an anti-Sri ratist agenda wasn’t part of the Global his outstanding contribution to the Sri Lankan cinema. Nine others received awards after Lanka campaign during the 2007 Cricket Tamil Forum (GTF) or the British Tamil World Cup in the Caribbean. The AI Forum (BTF). the President declared open the Centre for Media of the Government Information HK graft police arrest called off the campaign targeting the Sri tycoon brothers Department yesterday. (Pic. By Kamal Bogoda) Lankan national team at the height of Two billionaire brothers who run Hong Kong’s biggest property develop- er and a former senior Parliament: Children clap as govt. government official were Bright student to receive arrested for suspected corruption, stunning the Chinese financial center and sending the MPs thump on President’s arrival company’s shares into a tailspin. Govt. assistance BY SAMAN INDRAJITH BY SAMAN INDRAJITH An unexpected occurrence was wit- their desks to welcome him. Following Social Services Minister Felix Perera told Parliament yester- nessed in Parliament yesterday as them the school children and teachers, day that the government would assist the blind student who school children and their teachers who were in the public gallery, too got Filipino boys in trouble scored nine straight ‘A’s at the GCE Ordinary Level examination clapped to welcome President Mahinda up from their seats and started clapping. to continue her education. over FB kiss photos Rajapaksa. Police officers detailed for the mainte- The student who excelled in the examination, Ridmi President Rajapaksa in his capacity nance of silence and decorum in the A Philippine Catholic school Handapangoda, was an exemplary pupil and the government had as the Minister of Finance arrived in public gallery rushed in and ordered is witholding the diplomas of decided to inviteher to the Social Services Ministry and grant six high school boys who Parliament to attend the sessions when the children and their teachers, who her a scholarship. uploaded Facebook photos six financial bills were taken up for were not aware of the regulations, that Minister Perera was responding to a request made by DNA that appear to show them debate. As the President entered the those present in the gallery should not Colombo District MP Sunil Handunetti who asked the govern- kissing each other, an edu- Chamber, some government members disturb the proceedings, to be silent. Ridmi ment to recognise the feat of the student. cation official said Friday. got up from their seats and thumped China, Russia plan !Disappearance of two JVP rebels Anti-govt. rallies will naval war exercises continue until Mahinda China says it will join Russia in Army chief, Jaffna AC goes home – Ranil naval war games starting next month BY CYRIL in the Sea of submit objections WIMALASURENDRE Japan and the KANDY: The Opposition Yellow Sea. BY CHITRA WEERARATHNE would continue the protest campaigns against the pres- Army Commander Lt. Gen. Jagath Lalithkumara had been missing from their ent regime until the Jayasuriya and the Jaffna Area Commander homes in Jaffna since December 2011. A Mahinda Rajapaksa gov- Maj. Gen. Mahinda Hathurusinghe yesterday Cabinet Minister had said at a press confer- ernment was dislodged, Ex-Indian Army chief submitted objection papers, to the Court of ence that those persons were held in deten- Opposition and United ! Anti-govt. protests will con- Appeal, denying the arrest and detention of tion custod, they said. battles corruption National Party leader Ranil tinue till Mahinda goes Lalithkumara and Kithnan Muruganandan The petitions have requested the Court to In his day, India’s army Wickremesinghe said on home, Ranil says. alias Klugan when two Habaes Corpus appli- order the respondent Army officers to pro- chief fought the Thursday (29). He was addressing a party cations, filed by the father of Lalithkumara duce those persons before the Court. Pakistani army in the rally at the Kandy Central Market ground. ! Shouldn’t he say ‘till I go and the wife of Muruganandan were called. battlefields of A large crowd had gathered to listen to Bangladesh and the home’? The petitions said that Kithnan and UNP leaders Ranil Wickremesinghe, Tamil Tiger insurgents in deputy leader Sajith Premadasa, Karu the forests of Sri Lanka. Now, he has a new adversary — his own government. Jayasuriya and others. However, Premadasa, Karu Jayasuriya John demolishes Bandula’s argument CPC to hire foreign did not speak. expert at He said that the Mahinda Rajapaksa Two Syrian colonels BY NORMAN PALIHAWADANAA Rs. 165,000 per day government had prevented the masses gunned down Minister of Public Seneviratne said a family Administration John of three needed at least BY SHIRAN RANASINGHE Gunmen struck Thursday Speculation is rife over a move to Seneviratne yesterday dis- Rs. 15,000 a month. in the heart of Syria’s puted his ministerial col- Minister Seneviratne hire a foreign expert for the debt rid- largest city and a strong- league Bandula said, “A family of three den CPC at a staggering Rs. 165,000 hold of support for Gunawardene’s contention generally needs to pay per day salary. Sources alleged that President Bashar Assad, killing two army that a family of three telephone, water and light the CPC’s board of directors had colonels at a downtown roundabout in an could live on a monthly bills. Not only that, but been discussing the issue, though a attack that state media blamed on terrorists. income of Rs. 7,500 if they John Bandula competent IT expert was currently led a frugal life..