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Wasantha Samarasinghe of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Monday tendered his resignation from the post of Member of Parliament to contest the election of the North Central provincial Council (NCPC) as the chief ministerial candidate of the JVP. He submitted his letter of resignation to the Secretary General of the parliament.

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The annual festival of the historic Kathirkaamam Murukan temple located in the southern province is to commence on July 3 and to conclude on July 18 with the water-cutting ceremony (Theerththath thiruvizhaa) in the Maa’nikka Kangkai. Foot pilgrims from the eastern province are expected to enter Kathirkaamam area Tuesday, temple sources said. However, foot pilgrims are to be photographed by the security forces when they trek through the Yala sanctuary to Kathirkaamam

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About three hundred Tamil teachers who have been working in Kandy district on transfer from the northern and eastern provinces are under special surveillance. The activities of teachers transferred from Ki’linochchi district are closely monitored, said Kandy Police Superintendent (SP) Sisira Weerakone addressing a conference held in Kandy district secretariat, according to a news report carried in Monday’s Thinakkural.

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Bodies of two youths knifed to death Saturday night at Paarathipuram and Thaalikku’lam in Vavuniyaa, lying in the mortuary of the Vavuniyaa general hospital since Sunday are yet to be identified, medical sources said.

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The Special Task Force (STF) commandos in Batticaloa city have been collecting personal of details of the employees of the various business establishments as well as the occupants of the residences within Batticaloa police division for the past four days, residents in the city said. The STF commandos have further threatened the shop owners that if any bombs fixed to bicycles parked outside their stores ever explode and cause causalities to the commandos, they would be targeted in retaliation.

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Eleven civilians arrested during a cordon and search operation conducted by STF commandos Saturday afternoon in Kalviyangkaadu IDP camp located within the administrative area of Ma’nmunai North District Secretariat in Batticaloa, were released Sunday afternoon. The arrests were made while a sports competition for the children in the camp was being conducted by the Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Save the Children (STS) under the ?Improvement of Education of Refugee Children? scheme was in progress.

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More than 300 unemployed graduates launched a token protest Monday around 7:00 a.m in front of Jaffna Main Educational complex in Nalloor preventing the officials entering the Education Offices, in a demand for immediate employment, sources in Jaffna said. The graduates said that they were prepared to launch a continuous fast protest from Tuesday if the authorities were not ready to meet their demands.

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Ten Tamil youths were taken into custody by the police in a cordon and search operation conducted covering two fishing hamlets Aluthwatte and Yampuwatte located in the Chilaapam (Chilaw) police division from morning till evening on Sunday. They are being detained in the police station and subjected to interrogation, police said.

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Sri Lankan forces Monday evening arrested around 60 Tamils, most of them who had their place of birth or residence address from Jaffna in their identity cards. Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian from Vanni, Selvam Adaikkalanathan said he had taken up the concerns of the relatives with the authorities.

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Sri Lankan forces Monday evening arrested around 60 Tamils, most of them who had their place of birth or residence address from Jaffna in their identity cards. Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian from Vanni, Selvam Adaikkalanathan said he had taken up the concerns of the relatives with the authorities.

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