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TMVP office comes under LTTE attack; three killed, eight injured- Batticaloa Thursday, 26 October 2006 - 8:42 PM SL Time The LTTE terrorists have resorted back to their anti democratic process for becoming the `sole representative of the Tamil community` as soon as their political representatives reached Geneva yesterday. An office of a popular alternative Tamil political party in the eastern province, The Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) came under an attack last night killing three people and injuring eight others. The incident has occurred at 11.00p.m yesterday when an LTTE cadre recently plant in the TMVP had hurled a hand grenade at a group of TMVP members at their office at Chenkalladi in Batticaloa. 
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Geneva 2 is not to please LTTE: Sri Lanka Thursday, 26 October 2006 - 11:46 AM SL Time The Sri Lankan Government said on Wednesday it would seek a definite timetable to engage the LTTE on seven identified subjects at the October 28 and 29 talks in Geneva. Defence spokesman and Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told a news conference here that democracy, pluralism, human rights, child recruitment, development of north and east, multiparty system and devolution were the issues. He said the Government was not going to Geneva to `please` the LTTE but to give it one more `chance` to get into the democratic process. `We recognise that LTTE is a ground reality and it can not be wished away.` Asked about the LTTE delegation statement before leaving for talks that they were going to Geneva only in deference to the wishes of the international community and would focus only on the Cease Fire Agreement and the human crisis, Mr. Rambukwella said the Tamil Tigers had not made any comments on the Government`s seven-point agenda. The Minister said the Government was happy to note that it was after a very long break `Geneva 2` was taking place and hoped that the LTTE agrees for a timebound dialogue.
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Swiss will not allow LTTE raise funds this time Thursday, 26 October 2006 - 4:50 AM SL Time The Swiss authorities will not allow the LTTE to raise funds or carry out any campaign against the Government and the people of Sri Lanka in Switzerland after the peace talks this time, authoritative sources in Geneva told the Daily News. According to the sources the Swiss Government will ensure that the LTTE will not abuse the Swiss hospitality unlike the previous occasion. The LTTE carried out a fundraising and propaganda campaign in Zurich after the first round of peace talks in Geneva in February this year. The LTTE members are expected to leave Geneva on October 30. However there are unconfirmed reports that the LTTE delegation will visit Oslo in Norway and Reykjavik in Iceland.
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Geneva talks run into agenda crisis Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:55 AM SL Time It is reported that the scheduled talks between the government and the LTTE in Geneva are in serious crisis as the parties are unable to prepare an agenda for talks. When the government delegation left for Geneva, a definite agenda has not been declared. The object of the government was to compile an agenda and a time frame to discuss genuine grievances affecting the Tamil community unlike in the past where cease-fire agreement and activities of the monitoring mission were the common subjects to be discussed. This was repeatedly claimed by government defence spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella. It is also reported that the LTTE refuses to take up matters other than humanitarian issues such as the opening of the A-9 highway, the cease-fire agreement and the acute food shortage faced by the people of the North.
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Sri Lanka suspects weapons to rebels sent through Indonesia Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:51 AM SL Time Sri Lanka has expressed its suspicions that weapons supplied for the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were illegally `sent through` Indonesia, an Indonesian Cabinet minister said Thursday. `They have suspected that the illegal weapons supplied to the Tamil Tigers group were sent through Indonesia,` the state-run news agency quoted Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono as saying after meeting visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake. The minister did not provide any details, but said Indonesia and Sri Lanka agreed to build cooperation in defense and security, particularly in antiterror activities. `We don`t need to get upset. It`s only an accusation and they (Sri Lanka) ask us (to cooperate),'' Sudarsono was quoted by Tempo Interaktif online media as saying.
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Newspaper Society condemns restrictions on Tamil newspapers Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:49 AM SL Time The Newspaper Society unreservedly condemned the recent restriction placed on the distribution of the Tamil language newspapers in the East of the country, by an armed group of persons. It said `The illegal seizure of 20,000 copies of the Virakesari and the subsequent burning of these newspapers is a stark reminder how easily one jack boot can replace another. The right to information and availability of diverse opinions is a fundamental tenet of democracy. More, it is an inherent right of all those who live in free society. The incident is the most recent of earlier attacks on journalists and newspaper offices both in the North and in Colombo. `Any Government wedded to democracy which allows such acts to be committed with impunity, imperils its own image.
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A trapped Mahinda will feel miserable: Wimal Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:54 AM SL Time Sri Lanka has expressed its suspicions that weapons supplied for the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were illegally `sent through` Indonesia, an Indonesian Cabinet minister said Thursday. `They have suspected that the illegal weapons supplied to the Tamil Tigers group were sent through Indonesia,` the state-run news agency quoted Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono as saying after meeting visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake. The minister did not provide any details, but said Indonesia and Sri Lanka agreed to build cooperation in defense and security, particularly in antiterror activities. `We don`t need to get upset. It`s only an accusation and they (Sri Lanka) ask us (to cooperate),'' Sudarsono was quoted by Tempo Interaktif online media as saying.
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CBK says she returned Madiwela land Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:45 AM SL Time Former President Mrs. Chandrika Kumaratunga in her written submission filed in the Supreme Court said she has duly returned to the government of Sri Lanka, the land at Madiwela, granted to her by Cabinet approval. The returning of this land was done before petitioner D. M. Dissanayake and two others were granted interim relief, on March 20, 2006. Mrs. Kumaratunga had also said that she was legally entitled to an appropriate residence, given by the State, devoid of rent. The premises at No. 27, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7, was selected by Cabinet. As regards her security, she said that she was high up in the LTTE hit list. She once survived an assassination attempt, but lost an eye. She needs special security to safeguard her life.
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De-merger: Give Karuna the Eastern Council Thursday, 26 October 2006 - 4:58 AM SL Time Mao Ze Dong, arguably the greatest military theorist of the 20th century and one of its finest philosophers, enjoined his followers to `turn bad into good!` The timing of the Supreme Court judgement was, as Dr Sarath Amunugama among others is reported to have said in Cabinet, not a good thing. But now that it has been rendered, and is in some senses irreversible ' it is never a healthy thing for the executive or legislature to display scant regard for a Supreme Court decision - one has to make the best of it, and if possible turn it to good use. Just such a possibility has opened up with the reported comment of Karuna`s TMVP welcoming the decision of the Supreme Court. `De-merger gives East a chance to decide its future says Karuna`
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Women Only, bus services begin Friday, 27 October 2006 - 5:04 AM SL Time The SLTB began Women Only bus services today. The first will be from Godagama junction in Meegoda, Railways and Transport, Petroleum and Petroleum Resource Minister A. H. M. Fowzie said. Speaking at a late evening press conference in Colombo, he said that initially they would focus on two routes, that is, from Paddukka to Fort and from Meegoda to Fort. From next week, two more routes will be included from Kesbewa to Fort and Homagama to Fort. These buses will ply exclusively during the rush hours on normal charges and will benefit working women, he said. Fowzie also said that if this system becomes popular, it would be extended to the whole island.
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Rapid expansion in shipping, aviation Friday, 27 October 2006 - 5:01 AM SL Time President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday instructed the Shipping and Aviation Ministry to expand its operations for the country`s rapid development as envisioned in the `Mahinda Chintanaya`. At a meeting to assess the progress of the Shipping and Aviation Ministry at Temple Trees yesterday, President Rajapaksa directed Ministry officials to purchase new vessels for the Shipping Corporation. The President expressed the view that the purchase of new vessels would contribute to the easy transport of essential items to the North-East. Attention had been drawn to the process of registering foreign vessels under the Sri Lankan flag, which would enhance job opportunities for around 18,000 Sri Lankan seafarers who contribute around US$ 80 million in foreign exchange.
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Muthurajawela for diesel storage Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:44 AM SL Time The Government will save nearly rupees 28 million through storing 60,000 tons of diesel in the Muthurajawela Storage Tank. Petroleum and Petroleum Resource Development Minister A.H.M. Fowzie yesterday told The Island that this will be the first time that the Muthurajawela facility would be used to its full capacity. Fowzie said that only one-sixth of the storage facility was utilised prior to the latest loading. The Muthurajawela Storage Tank was built at a cost of rupees 12 billion.
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Moral of jaataka, morale of the military and other matters Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:47 AM SL Time President Mahinda Rajapakse has read the Pansiya Panas Jaathakaya (stories about the Buddha`s previous births) to the military in a bid to impress on them the importance of their unity. Addressing a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sinha Regiment, on Wednesday, he referred to the famous Jaataka story about a flock of vatu birds (quails) that escaped from a hunter by flying away with the net that he had thrown on them but perished on some other day as they started fighting among themselves to the neglect of a collective attempt to escape. `Our motto should be,` the President has said, `unity is strength.` In the Sinhala language, in which the President addressed the military top brass including the Army Commander, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, there is a peculiar way of saying something without saying it (nokiya keema). In relating the story of the vatu birds, the President has spoken of the Muhamalai military disaster without referring it.
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Create a slot for the UNP in peace talks Thursday, 26 October 2006 - 3:07 AM SL Time The SLFP-UNP marriage has happened and celebrations are still on. Marriage is said to be a continuous process of sharing and caring. In the words of Louis K. Anspacher `Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual and the obligation reciprocal.` The same is true of political marriages as well. Now that the two main parties have come together, they have to live up the expectations of the people. The main reason given for their coming together is the resolution of the conflict. Their marriage couldn`t have come at a better time. Peace talks are scheduled to take place shortly in Geneva.
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A new beginning Tuesday, 24 October 2006 - 7:30 AM SL Time The MoU signed between the SLFP and the UNP marks a new beginning in Sri Lankan politics. It was the culmination of a process that the two parties had embarked on a few weeks ago with a view to solving the problems besetting the country by way of a national consensus. Decades of acrimonious politics and the attendant fissiparity of the polity have brought the country to such a pass that not even a catastrophe of the magnitude of a killer tsunami could make the political leaders sink their differences. A protracted conflict churning out death and devastation has meant little or nothing to them. As for the opportunities which they could have availed themselves of to make common cause and help drag the country out of the present mire, there have been many. The best was the rare chance that the SLFP and the UNP got in 2001. We had a President from the SLFP-led People`s Alliance and a Prime Minister from the UNP-led UNF coalition. The two parties, which have ruled this country since Independence almost alternately and therefore are responsible for the sorry state of affairs therein could have worked towards political reconciliation. There were the much hyped Tittawella-Samarawickreme talks, aimed at bringing about a consensus. But, they came a cropper before long and the President and the Prime Minister chose to tighten the grip on each other`s jugular. The rest is history.
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Lara decides to have a bowl Friday, 27 October 2006 - 4:46 AM SL Time Brian Lara was ruled fit at the very last moment, only five minutes before the toss, which he won, and chose to put India in to bat in their crucial one-dayer against India at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Ahmedabad. Lara had suffered back spasms in West Indies` last match against Australia where he scored a masterful 71 but could not take the field in the second half of the game. India, meanwhile, keeping the dew factor in mind, made one change, bringing in the left-arm seam of RP Singh in place of Ramesh Powar, the offspinner. This was along expected lines, as it would have been extremely difficult for Powar to grip the ball if India were forced to bowl second. And that was exactly what happened as Lara won the toss and chose to field. On a hot, sunny day the Champions Trophy really came alive as the fans thronged to the stadium in large numbers. The stadium is a huge one, seating almost 55000, but it was well over 60% full even before the game began, and there were queues of people waiting to get in. When word spreads that India are batting first, you can be sure the flow of people will increase, and who knows, we might even get a full house.
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Pakistan cricketers in massage parlour! Thursday, 26 October 2006 - 3:05 AM SL Time The Pakistan cricket team has sought the services of three massage experts (masseurs), in Mohali. Their services have been sought by captain Younis Khan, according to Manav Mehra, the owner of Sylvies Beauty Parlour, in Chandigardh. Speaking to this paper from Chandigardh, Manava Mehra said, `two Pakistani cricketers - Younis Khan and Imran Farhat - visited my parlour recently and made a request. Since all players are unable to visit us, we have assigned three of our best staffers to the Hotel Taj where the team is staying. The players had their hair cut in our parlour and were provided with facial and head massages.` The beauty parlour was opened by Harbhajan Singh and Manav Mehra some 30 months ago. At the opening was then Indian captain Saurav Ganguly. `Because of his busy schedule, Harbhajan Singh is no more a partner,` he added.
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We lost the plot - Jayawardene Thursday, 26 October 2006 - 3:04 AM SL Time Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene blamed his team`s top order for their failure to provide a solid start which resulted in a 78-run defeat at the hands of South Africa at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. `We would have taken 220 at the start of the match. But the four early wickets set us back and after that, it was an uphill task,` Jayawardene said. `We got no momentum after the poor start. We lost our plot while chasing a gettable total,` the right-hander admitted. The Lankan skipper lauded his bowlers for keeping a check on the South African batsmen, but felt that they were a bit too expensive in the slog overs. `Perhaps we gave a few too many in the last five overs,` he said. Defending his decision to put South Africa in, Jayawardene said, `If we had bowled second, we would have struggled bowling our spinners.`
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