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Latest News HeadlinesSri Lanka Air Force Strikes Ltte Co..Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets bombed a LTTE communication base in Oddusudan in Northeast this afternoon while Army troops killed 22 Tigers in ground battles in the Vavuniya region. Citing Air Force sources Media Center for National Security ...
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Sri Lanka Navy rescued a vessel load of illegal foreign job seekersSri Lanka Navy today (3rd March 2008) rescued a vessel load of illegal foreign job seekers who had been marooned for 13 days at sea at a distance of 150 nautical miles off the Eastern coast of Sri Lanka. The wooden hull vessel with 91 persons ...
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Two Pronged Sri Lanka Army Operatio..Six SLA soldiers were killed and 11 wounded when Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam ( LTTE ) confronted Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sunday offering stiff resistance to the SLA that attempted to advance beyond no-go zone via two f...
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Prabhakaran may commit suicide, say Sri Lankan leadersPredicting the collapse of the LTTE , some leaders in Sri Lanka have said the elusive Tiger supremo V Prabhakaran will have no choice other than to `commit suicide` when the Sri Lankan security forces zero in on him. `He (Prabhakaran) will not...
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The way `Thoppigala hero` is treated by SL Army cannot be aproved -Supreme CourtThe government on Friday denied allegations that the local government elections to be held in the volatile eastern Batticaloa district would be affected by violence and dismissed an appeal by several non-governmental organisations to call off the po...
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Lanka at world`s largest ICT showSri Lanka will be one among the 75 exhibitor nations participating in the world`s largest Information Communication Technology (ICT) exposition, CeBIT 2008. The country and its potential in the field will be showcased with the patronage of Sri Lanka...
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Sri Lanka President not prepared to go with begging bowl Monday, 3 March 2008 - 4:07 AM SL Time President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that he was not prepared to go with a begging bowl to the world, no matter what situation arises in the country.
`I am not ready to go with a begging bowl to the world under any conditions that may arise in the country,` the President said. The President also said that there were a large number of people who were ready to crossover to the government, but he was not ready to accept them now. `I have closed the door temporarily for them, if I open it they would crash through the door and cross over to the government,` he said. Addressing a public rally in Ratnapura, the President added that there were certain media organisations that worked according to the LTTE`s agenda. `Currently, there is an overflowing of media freedom in the country, anyone can see it when reading the Sunday papers,` the President said, adding, `despite this, some still say there is no media freedom at all in the country.`
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Curfew lifted in Jaffna for Maha Sivarathri Sunday, 2 March 2008 - 8:59 PM SL Time Curfew will be lifted on March 5 and 6 in the Jaffna peninsula for Hindus to observe the Maha Sivarathri, which falls on Thursday, March 6, said Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara.
The main religious observance will take place at the Nallur Sivan Kovil and at various other temples in the Jaffna peninsula.The temples for God Siva throughout the island will hold all night religious observances to mark the holy night in the Hindu calendar.
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Mahinda-Ranil talks: Bubble and babel Sunday, 2 March 2008 - 8:42 PM SL Time United National Party (UNP) parliamentarians, 32 of them to be precise, gathered in a beach resort in the southern town of Ahungalla, on Wednesday and Thursday to ponder over the formulation of a national policy. Seven of them did not attend.
But for those who did, it was a gala event culminating in a `surprise` birthday party thrown in for the young MP from Matara, Sagala Ratnayaka. It was serious political deliberation by day and karaoke singing by night with young Sajith Premadasa, easily the best vocalist. Such a national policy though, to be finalised after a series of consultations with organisations and members of the public at provincial and district level, will come out in the form of a public document in May, this year. The workshop, criticised for being held at a luxury hotel, anything but at grass-roots, also discussed other issues like, strategy the abrogation of the ceasefire agreement terrorism media grass-root organisations etc., However, the gathering became even more important because of discussions on another vital issue, viz., the Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe`s discussions with President Mahinda Rajapaksa two day`s earlier.
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Sri Lanka Air Force Strikes Ltte Co.. Monday, 3 March 2008 - 8:44 PM SL Time Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets bombed a LTTE communication base in Oddusudan in Northeast this afternoon while Army troops killed 22 Tigers in ground battles in the Vavuniya region. Citing Air Force sources Media Center for National Security said the targeted communication base with transmission towers was accurately hit. Meanwhile in ground battles troops killed 13 Tigers in Vavuniya area and another eight in the Welioya area, the MCNS reported. Two soldiers were also killed and ten others were injured in the Welioya clash. A search operation following the confrontation recovered a large cache of weapons including 130 anti personnel mines, 2 improvised explosive devices, 10 60mm mortar bombs and two claymore mines weighing 2.5kg.
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Sri Lanka Navy rescued a vessel load of illegal foreign job seekers Monday, 3 March 2008 - 12:17 PM SL Time Sri Lanka Navy today (3rd March 2008) rescued a vessel load of illegal foreign job seekers who had been marooned for 13 days at sea at a distance of 150 nautical miles off the Eastern coast of Sri Lanka. The wooden hull vessel with 91 persons on board had left from Cox s Bazaar located on the Burmese and Bangladeshi boarder on the 9th February. The passengers comprised of 67 Burmese nationals and 24 Bangladeshi persons. They were heading for Thailand and Malaysia for lucrative employment. The vessel had developed an engine defect on the 20th and begun to drift for 13 days until it was rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy. According to the passengers on the vessel, 20 of their colleagues had died of starvation and dehydration due to the lack of food and water. The Navy launched the search operation for the vessel after they had been alerted of a sighting of a suspicious vessel by the fishermen off Mulaithievu on the Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka.
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Two Pronged Sri Lanka Army Operatio.. Monday, 3 March 2008 - 4:11 AM SL Time Six SLA soldiers were killed and 11 wounded when Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) confronted Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sunday offering stiff resistance to the SLA that attempted to advance beyond no-go zone via two fronts at Ma`nki`ndimalai in Ma`nalaa`ru. LTTE Operations Command in Ma`nalaa`ru said that the Tigers also seized ammunitions from the SLA. Ammunitions including RPG shells, one-thousand PK-LMG rounds, one-hundred 7.62 mm rounds and hand grenades were seized in the clearing mission after the fighting, the Tigers said. The LTTE has not issued casualty details of their side.
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Prabhakaran may commit suicide, say Sri Lankan leaders Monday, 3 March 2008 - 12:15 PM SL Time Predicting the collapse of the LTTE, some leaders in Sri Lanka have said the elusive Tiger supremo V Prabhakaran will have no choice other than to `commit suicide` when the Sri Lankan security forces zero in on him. `He (Prabhakaran) will not be alive till the military arrests him. Simply, he will commit suicide. This is the nature of people like him,` senior Tamil leader Douglas Devananda said reacting to the observation by Jane`s Intelligence Review that the LTTE was at its lowest ebb. Marxist JVP party leader Somawansa Amarasinghe also made similar dire predictions about the fate of the LTTE leader.
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The way `Thoppigala hero` is treated by SL Army cannot be aproved -Supreme Court Sunday, 2 March 2008 - 8:43 AM SL Time The government on Friday denied allegations that the local government elections to be held in the volatile eastern Batticaloa district would be affected by violence and dismissed an appeal by several non-governmental organisations to call off the polls. We will go ahead with the elections and take every measure to see that the polls are free of violent incidents, a government official said shortly after the civil society organisations made a written appeal to call off the polls. Seven Civil society organisations coming together as the Joint Civil Society, having visited the volatile north and east districts on a fact finding mission last week requested the government to call off the local government elections to be held on March 10. They also called on the government to disarm all armed groups based in the East by confiscating their weapons.
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Toll on private vehicles entering Colombo city Sunday, 2 March 2008 - 8:22 AM SL Time Some 200,000 private vehicles enter the city daily causing heavy air pollution and traffic congestion and plans to encourage these private vehicle owners to use public transport will be ready within the next three months, an official said yesterday. National Transport Commission Chairman Amal S. Kumarage told The Sunday Times the plans would include the imposition of a toll on private vehicles and the improvement of the public transport service. `Electronic road pricing for private vehicles will be one of the most effective ways of discouraging private vehicles from entering the city during day-time. If the toll is high during daytime and less at night, day-time traffic congestion could be reduced significantly,` he said. Prof. Kumarage said that prior to charging a toll on private vehicles entering the city, alternatives would be introduced this year under the Strategic Action Plan for Traffic Management. Imposition of the toll would come into effect at the end of next year after alternative arrangements for those entering the city in private vehicles were fully put into effect, he said.
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Lanka at world`s largest ICT show Monday, 3 March 2008 - 8:22 PM SL Time Sri Lanka will be one among the 75 exhibitor nations participating in the world`s largest Information Communication Technology (ICT) exposition, CeBIT 2008. The country and its potential in the field will be showcased with the patronage of Sri Lanka Export Development Board. The exhibition show will be held from 4th March at Hanover,Germany. CeBIT is accepted as the biggest and the world`s No. 1 trade show and market place for ICT sector worldwide. The organizers of this year`s event expect around 500,000 visitors from all over the world. The exhibitors will have the opportunity of directly connecting with the international market and to interact closely with international ICT buyers and partners while promoting their ICT products and services. The Sri Lankan participant will display their products in the fields of ERP solutions, BPO and KPO services, consultancy support services in ICT, HR solutions and Mobile solutions etc.
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To Fund Tamil Sri Lanka`s Terrorism, British Credit Card Fraud on a Sharp Increase Monday, 3 March 2008 - 4:24 AM SL Time British credit card frauds in which numbers of such cards have been skimmed, cloned and misused to steal money all over the world have increased alarmingly as means to fund terrorism charged a United Kingdom parliamentarian and Police. Andrew Selous, a Conservative Party MP told the House of Commons recently that it has been suggested to me that some of the money may have found its way to the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, possibly to fund terrorism. Mr. Selous said, My wife had 1000 Pounds stolen in four or five withdrawals from cash points in New York in early January (2008) While the British Member of Parliament said that withdrawals of money from such cards have spread to many countries of the world and the Toronto Police in Canada confirming the point said that two Londoners who are found to be members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with two other Canadian accomplices have been arrested with thousands of skimmed British credit card numbers, after their arrival in Canada and while traveling close to the Toronto International Airport. The two Londoners arrested during early February were Kirubakaran Selvanayagam Pillai (38) and Sethukavalar Saravanabhavan (35).
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Destroyer of LTTE vessel, Huravee here on short visit Monday, 3 March 2008 - 4:10 AM SL Time Maldivian Coast Guard Vessel Huravee which destroyed Sri krishna, a large Indian fishing trawler commandeered by the LTTE in the Maldivian waters last May had left Colombo after a three-day visit, Navy headquarters said. The vessel was on her way back to the Maldives after undergoing repairs at Chennai. This is her second visit to Colombo, since last October. The 46-meter Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) formerly Tillan Chang of the Indian navy attacked Sri Krishna carrying a consignment of ammunition after LTTE cadres fired at a Maldivian fishing craft in their southern territorial waters. Sri Krishna went down near Gaaf Alif waters but the Huravee rescued five of the nine-man crew. The rescued persons included the Indian Captain of Sri Krishna, registered with Verkodu Visai Padahu Meenavar Sangam Verkodu, Rameswaram, which had been seized by the LTTE on March 4, 2007.
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Foreign Ministry snakes under the grass Monday, 3 March 2008 - 4:13 AM SL Time There is a disease affecting envoys from small nations serving in big countries. It is called the Ambassadorial Syndrome, which means they begin to speak more for their hosts than for their own countries. Inferiority complex and self-advancement are said to be the causes of that diplomatic malady. The most pronounced symptom of the disease is that the infected launch vitriolic attacks on the non-infected. The latest victims of those sick Sri Lankan diplomats are Sri Lanka s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke and Head of the Secretariat for Co-operating the Peace Process Pro. Rajiv Wijesingha two intellectuals with the pluck to stand up to foreign pressure and defend the national interest. They are not obviously deriving some sadistic pleasure from their iconoclastic propaganda onslaughts on defied foreign dignitaries who are holy to the whole caboodle of castrated Sri Lankan envoys posted abroad, armchair commentators on foreign affairs and some media pundits hooked to licking boots of western diplomats. Instead, they are trying to do something for the country.
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The corruption of power Sunday, 2 March 2008 - 8:44 AM SL Time It`s now all but official, our Political Editor quotes the President of the Republic as telling the Leader of the Opposition when they met this week, that he would, under no circumstances, appoint the Constitutional Council that is legislated to oversee appointments to several other areas of government. That prerogative is his, the President insists. It is the most definitive word that has come from the President`s chambers even though there has been no official statement to that effect. President Mahinda Rajapaksa apparently believes that his predecessor Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga had undermined presidential powers for appointments to the higher judiciary, the Police, the Elections Commission, the Bribery and Corruption Commission and the Human Rights Commission. He believes these are exclusively the rights of the president, and his alone.
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Throwing the baby out Saturday, 1 March 2008 - 2:50 AM SL Time Our national trait for throwing the baby out with the bath-water is truly remarkable. At times, we even throw out the baby and retain the bath-water. Then, we throw up our hands in horror and desperately look for the baby down the drain. When the UNP opened up the economy in 1977, it threw caution to the winds. Instead of discarding the outdated economic policies selectively and adopting new ones to keep pace with the changing world, it debilitated the state enterprises post-haste and drove most of them to an economic mass grave. Then, in 1994, the SLFP the very party, responsible for running a closed economy from 1970 to 1977, began from where the UNP had stopped to make sure that the existing state ventures were done away with.
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Sri Lanka`s happy ending to a poor tour Sunday, 2 March 2008 - 8:38 AM SL Time But Sanga s dismissal at this point, when he decided to go after the bowling of Praveen Kumar, opened the now familiar floodgates and it was only some resolute batting by Chamara Kapugedera and the tail-enders that saved our blushes. A total of 179 on a flat, good batting track was not what we had hoped for in a must win match and the rest is now history. At our team meeting after the game against India we talked again about our batting. It seemed that some players were worried about failure which in turn affected their performance. With the tournament finalists now a foregone conclusion, we decided to play a more relaxed game on Friday. Indeed, when we returned to Melbourne from Hobart after the game against India, we did not have a practice session. The boys relaxed with a game of bowling and I think that attitude-with the pressure to perform off us- paid off.
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A Guard of Honour for Murali Saturday, 1 March 2008 - 4:43 AM SL Time Very rarely do you see a guard of honour for a sportsman, especially in cricket, where the run of play has denied even the best of batsmen and bowlers one. But on Friday, at the MCG, there were three guards of honour for some of the all time greats of cricket. First, the Australians did it as Sanath Jayasuriya walked into bat and a rush of wickets towards the end of Sri Lanka s innings allowed them to stage another for Muttiah Muralitharan, and later, the Sri Lankans paid back the complement when they applauded Adam Gilchrist all the way to the crease. But the one that was most heart-warming was the one that was accorded to Muralitharan, who was booed, jeered and no-balled at this massive ground some 13 years ago.
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Pathirana fails to save Lanka Thursday, 28 February 2008 - 12:04 PM SL Time A brilliant unbeaten 97 from all rounder Sachith Pathirana could not save Sri Lanka as they bowed out of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under 19 World Cup following a close eight run defeat against England on the Duckworth and Lewis scoring method in their Play Off semifinal fixture worked off at the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Pathirana produced his best innings of the tournament to help Sri Lanka pile up a competitive 241 runs from their 50 overs after being put into bat. However England produced an equally good batting display to reach a formidable 204 for 3 before heavy rain halted the game in the 45th over. The dashing left hander who is also in contention for the Player of the Series award hoisted two sixes and struck five boundaries while collecting his runs from just 91 deliveries. Pathirana also put on 92 runs for the fifth wicket with skipper Ashan Subasinghe from 18 overs.
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