Although the crude oil price continues to decline, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) and Lanka IOC said there is no possibility of reducing petrol and diesel prices in the local market. The crude oil price reached the last March level and last week the price was below $110 a barrel.
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Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said that Sri Lanka will improve its literacy rate. He was speaking at a ceremony to open the Book Festival 2008 . “We are ahead of 193 countries in literacy and will increase it because UNESCO statistics have shown that we have a 92.5% literacy rate”, he said.
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RUGBY: Sri Lanka with an unbeaten record assured themselves of a berth in the International Cup semi-finals after registering three convincing wins at the Singer-SriLankan Airlines International Rugby Sevens organised by Kandy Sports Club and co-sponsored by Amaya Leisure PLC and worked off for the second day at Nittawela yesterday.
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Sri Lanka’s air force launched a pre-dawn attack on a Tamil separatist naval camp in the embattled north Sunday, and infantry clashes elsewhere in the region killed eight rebels and three soldiers, the military said.
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Sri Lanka’s air force launched a pre-dawn attack on a Tamil separatist naval camp in the embattled north Sunday, and infantry clashes elsewhere in the region killed eight rebels and three soldiers, the military said.
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Despite battlefield losses last week with the LTTE delivering bodies of 30 soldiers killed in action..
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The highest rainfall of 48.5mm has been reported from Bandarawela today, the Meteorological Department said. It said that the country would continue to experience the present rainy climate due to the onset of the inter monsoon period.
— Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:40:30 PM
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The provincial Councilors are in line to get a pay hike early next year following the expected salary increase to judicial officers in the budget 2009, political sources said. This will follow a salary and allowance increase to the Parliamentarians whose salary scales are on par with those of the judicial officials.
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A unit of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers lying in ambush in Vadamunai village in Koa’ra’laippattu South District Secretariat’s administrative area, mistaking another group of SLA soldiers as Liberation Tigers, fired at the troopers, killing four of them Friday night, sources in Batticaloa said.
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Sri Lanka beat Kazakhstan 34-0 in a Group ‘B’ match of the international rugby sevens tournament underway at Nitiwala in Kandy this afternoon. — Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:25:33 PM
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