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Sri Lanka donated two young female Indian elephants to the Prague zoo, where they arrived on Saturday, flown to the Czech Republic by a Sri Lankan military plane, Prague zoo director Miroslav Bobek said.

The elephants, eight-year-old Janita and seven-year-old Tamara, are from Pinnawala.

In return, the Prague zoo will send two comodo dragons, two Przewalski horses and two young hippopotamuses to the Dehiwela Zoologial Gardens.

"The elephant acquisition is Sri Lanka's gift to the Czech Republic rather than routine exchange of animals between zoos," Bobek said.

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CHAMIKARA WEERASIGHE

External Affairs Ministry has called on the Sri Lankan High Commission in Bangladesh to submit a full report on violence triggered on Buddhist temples by some sectarian mobs in Bangladesh.

External Affairs Ministry Secretary Karunathilaka Amunugama yesterday said he has called for an urgent report on the incidents involving attacks on Buddhist temples in Bangladesh.

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The Commonwealth in seeking to enhance its relevance and usefulness, needs to ensure that there is no conflict with the basic ethos of member countries, External Affairs Minister Professor G L Peiris said.

Addressing a Commonwealth Ministerial reception in New York co-hosted by the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom on Saturday, Professor Peiris said the occasion was a celebration of the Commonwealth as an institution of contemporary relevance as when it was initially established, with the pivotal values of the empowerment of people through representative institutions, maintaining due processes and social justice.

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* Favourable responses from UN member countries

* Sharp increase in foreign investment expected once UPR is over

Sri Lanka's Human Rights record has been described by member countries of the UN as having reached an "ideal" position to be identified with international Rights standards, representative of Sri Lanka to the UN, former Attorney General Mohan Peiris said yesterday.

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*320 to be reunited soon

*Legal action awaits the rest

Eleven thousand five hundred ex-LTTE combatants out of the 12,000 surrendered or in the custody of the state have been reunited with their families after rehabilitation, Military Spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya said.

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Rasika SOMARATHNA The United Kingdom yesterday deported another group of 60 Sri Lankan asylum seekers and visa over stayers. Those sent back include failed asylum seekers and visa over stayers, BBC reported quoting UK of ...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday arrived at Palam Airport in New Delhi on a three-day official visit to India. The Sri Lankan delegation led by President Rajapaksa was warmly welcomed by Indian Science and Technolo ...