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		<title>India extends US$ 67.4 million Line of Credit to Sri Lanka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ (Lanka-e-News 10.March.2010 11.50PM) A Line of Credit Agreement for US$ 67.4 million was signed between Government of Sri Lanka... ]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: Jaffna Technical College principal compels students to campaign for Mahinda Rajapakses party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jaffna Technical College Students Union (JTCSU) raised accusation against Yogarajan, their principal and President Mahinda Rajapakses Alliance candidate in the parliamentary election, for compelling them to campaign for Mahinda Rajapakses Alliance. Yogarajan had welcomed Namal Rajapakse, President Mahinda Rajapakses eldest son and his Blue Warriors group accompanying him when they arrived in Jaffna Tuesday to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: Third Mu&#8217;l'livaaykkaal in the name of &#8216;development&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After abetting a military defeat and subsequently blessing a political defeat, the coterie of countries propping up Sri Lankan state is now bent upon enacting a third Mullivaaykkaal, by bringing in a development defeat of Eezham Tamils through handing over development management to the Sinhalese, said a concerned group of diaspora Tamils who recently had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China lends Sri Lanka $290m for development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China has completed arrangements through its funding arm, Exim Bank, to provide $290m in concessionary development loans to Sri Lanka, Reuters reported. $190m of the loan is to develop a second airport in Matara and the other $100m is to improve the railways.  China was the largest foreign funding source for Sri Lanka in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31336</link>
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		<title>UK Foreign Affairs Under Secretary arrives in Sri Lanka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign affairs, Sir Peter Ricketts, arrived in Colombo Wednesday early morning on a two day visit, Colombo media reported. He immediately called on Sri Lankas Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama.]]></description>
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		<title>China to lend Lanka $290mn for air, rail work (Gulf Times)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China has agreed to lend $290mn to Sri Lanka for a new airport and to revive the country’s railway network, the island nation’s foreign ministry said yesterday.]]></description>
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		<title>UK official in Lanka (Gulf Times)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Permanent Under-Secretary of the British Foreign office, Peter Rickett, left, shakes hands with Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign affairs Rohitha Bogollagama during a two-day visit in Colombo yesterday.]]></description>
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		<title>India, Sri Lanka sign $67.4 m Line of Credit (The Hindu)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[COLOMBO: India and Sri Lanka on Wednesday signed a Line of Credit agreement for $67.4 million to fund the second phase of upgradation of the Southern Railway Line from Colombo to Matara.]]></description>
		<link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/lanka/SIG=123qfv6ul/*http%3A//www.thehindu.com/2010/03/11/stories/2010031152751800.htm</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: Sarath Fonseka to be tried over 5 charges under Army Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Retired Major General Sarath will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within next few days, Military spokesman, Major General Prasad Amarasinghe told media Monday. He added that the summary of evidence over charges against General Fonseka made in compliance with provisions of the Army Act was completed and handed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31334</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: IDPs in Moothoor complain to ITAK leaders about their uncertain future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trincomalee electoral candidates led by Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi  (ITAK) leader Mr. R. Sampanthan, Tuesday visited the camps in Kiliveddi and Paddiththidal in Moothoor DS division where hundreds of internally displaced Tamil families from Champoor, Kooniththeevu, Choodaikkudaa and Navaratnapuram in the High Security Zones declared by the Sri Lanka Army after the eviction of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31333</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka AG to provide more security for opposition Muslim leader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader Rauf Hakeem will be provided with four police personnel for his security, the Attorney General's Department informed the Supreme Court today.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Mar1268246740CH.html</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka to get US$ 50 million loan from Japan for the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka is to obtain a US$ 50 million (4.522 billion Japanese Yen) loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to complete the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Mar1268245130CH.html</link>
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		<title>Nearly hundred thousand IDPs  in camps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations says that nearly a hundred thousand ineternally displaced people  are still accommodated in temporary camps.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/wsy/pub/rss/1.0/-/sinhala/news/story/2010/03/100310_idplanka.shtml</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: JVP will oppose any power devolution to North, East provinces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sinhala Marxist party Jantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) former parliamentarian, Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that JVP will oppose if a new political constitution devolving powers to the Northern and Eastern provinces is to be created, in a press briefing held in Colombo Tuesday. Minister G. L. Peiris recently said that the government intends implementing its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31332</link>
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		<title>China to build new international airport in Sri Lanka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China is to lend Sri Lanka about $200m (£133m) to build a second international airport in the south of the island.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8560544.stm</link>
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		<title>UN provides health services to resettled women in Sri Lanka (New Kerala)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York, Mar 10: The United Nations is setting up mobile health clinics and distributing hygiene packs and maternity kits to women and children returning home to former conflict zones in northern Sri Lanka.]]></description>
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		<title>Indian team from Jaipur to help Sri Lanka amputees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Indian charity has sent a team to northern Sri Lanka to provide 1,000 amputees with artificial limbs.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8559262.stm</link>
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		<title>Import of paper from India for printing ballot papers is for counterfeit voting -UNP MP Dayasiri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ (Lanka-e-News 10.March.2010 10.10PM) UNP M.P. Kurunegala District ,Dayasiri Jayasekera speaking in Parliament at the debate on extension of emergency regulations said , there are.... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=9220</link>
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		<title>Petition urging the search for and finding Prageeth postponed until 27th April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ (Lanka-e-news 10.March.2010 10.20PM) The Habeas corpus petition filed in the Court to issue an order to the IGP to search for  and find the Journalist Prageeth... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=9221</link>
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		<title>UNHCR launches new effort to reduce the number of stateless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: UNHCR The UN refugee agency launches a new push to reduce the number of stateless people in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>China to build Sri Lanka airport (BBC News)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China is to lend Sri Lanka just under $200m to build a second international airport in the south of the island.]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: Chinese involvement in Jaffna peninsula gains momentum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While India is said to be seriously considering opening a branch of its High Commission for Sri Lanka in Jaffna, Chinese contractors are actively engaged in planning the broadening of five major roads in the peninsula in keeping with the agreement entered with Sri Lanka President, Mahintha Rajapakse, sources in Jaffna said. A conference presided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31331</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka main opposition to release its election manifesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 10, Colombo: United national Front (UNF), Sri Lanka's main opposition alliance contesting the upcoming parliamentary election in April is to release its election manifesto next week. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Mar1268237427CH.html</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka Locks Horns with UN over Experts  Panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The war of words between the Sri Lankan government and the United Nations has begun all over again, ..]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2010/3/54720.html</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka ruling party to begin election campaign next week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is to begin its propaganda campaign for the upcoming general elections nest week, the secretary of its main constituent party informed.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Mar1268235393CH.html</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka gets US$ 67.4 million credit from India to upgrade Southern railway line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 10, Colombo: The Government of Sri Lanka and Export-Import Bank of India today signed a US$ 67.4 million Line of Credit Agreement to upgrade the Southern coastal railway line from Colombo to Matara.
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		<link>http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Mar1268234516CH.html</link>
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		<title>Two new MPs to take oaths in Sri Lanka just for two days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 10, Colombo: Two candidates of Sri Lanka's major opposition United National Party at the 2004 general election are likely to take oaths as Members of Parliament when the reconvened parliament meets on April 06 for the extension of emergency for another month. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Mar1268232433JR.html</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: SLA consolidates its grip on Jaffna peninsula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Commander Lt. Gen. Jegath Jeyasooriya officially opened the SLA Civil Administration Head Office Tuesday and inaugurated its Website in a public building on Jaffna Hospital road, taken over by SLA for this purpose, sources in Jaffna said. In the past SLA civil administration offices had been used by the government to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31330</link>
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		<title>Sri Lanka Health Minister to decide on the resumption of rubella vaccination programme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Health and Nutrition Nimal Siripala de Silva is to deliver the recommendations regarding the administration of rubella vaccine after studying the reports of the relevant committees.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Mar1268231419JR.html</link>
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		<title>India help for Sri Lanka amputees (BBC News)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Indian charity sends a team to Sri Lanka to provide 1,000 amputees in the war-ravaged north with artificial limbs.]]></description>
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