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Latest News HeadlinesStop Indian military aid to Sri Lanka: Tamil Nadu leadersNew Delhi unabashedly rolling the red carpet to Sri Lankan military chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka has caused a furore among Tamil Nadu politicians who have urged the India n Central Government to `stop all military aid to the genocidal government of S...
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Gang targetting Sri Lankan train commuters identifiedThe Anuradhapura Police on Wednesday arrested a member of a gang that befriends train commuters and steals their valuables after drugging them. He was arrested at the Anuradhapura Railway station when Police searched the Uttaradevi train plyin...
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Sri Lanka Army unloads ammunition consignments in JaffnaEven after a lapse of one-and-a-half-year, the families of at least 100 civilians killed and 84 wounded in Vaakarai region of Batticaloa district during Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive, are still waiting for their compensations from the Government of...
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JVP in Sri Lanka may be arming againJVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said recently, `JVP will fight to the fall of last member if the Provincial Councils that lead the country towards separatism will be brought back. The Provincial Councils that are to be brought to North and East a...
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New Mayor for `Mahinda Chinthana`New Mayor of Battcaloa Municipal council has pledged to closely work with the Nagenahira Navodaya` programme set up by the government to develop the East. I have been closely working with MP Basil Rajapaksha in the `Nagenahira Navodaya programme ...
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Public Transport crisis feared in Jaffna peninsulaSri Lanka Electricity Board (SLEB) which supplies fuel and oil to Jaffna Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) has informed that it may have to suspend supplies to Jaffna SLTB if the arrears of 51 million rupees due is not paid, Koa ndaavil SLTB head off...
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Tigers and Elections in Sri Lanka Friday, 14 March 2008 - 9:48 PM SL Time As Sri Lanka`s civil war approaches its 25th year, the government is trying to move its military offensive into a new phase: elections. Municipal polls in the majority-Tamil eastern province Monday were far from perfect, but symbolically, they represented a big step forward. The question now is whether the government can keep the momentum going and hold freer and fairer provincial elections next month.
As recently as a few months ago, an election in the eastern coastal city of Batticaloa looked impossible. The area was long overrun by the terrorist Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam -- a group best known for its use of roadside bombs and child soldiers. In 2004, the local Tiger general, Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, known as Karuna, defected to the government. The region became a battleground between the Tigers and the Karuna faction.
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Sri Lanka opposes Taiwan`s separatist attempts: urges on `one China` policy Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:32 AM SL Time `Sri Lanka strongly believes that the People`s Republic of China represents the aspirations of all the people in China including those in Taiwan. Any attempts by to change this status-quo is regarded by Sri Lanka as detrimental to cross-straits relations and to the peace and stability of Asia as a whole, stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with reference to attempts made by Taiwan to split from the China Republic and represent the UN as a separatist state.
The Government of Sri Lanka is seriously concerned about the attempts by Taiwan to hold a so-called referendum on the pretext of seeking independence and joining the UN under the name of Taiwan, on 22nd March.
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Ensure history records of `Eelam` is maintained: Prabhakaran Thursday, 13 March 2008 - 7:58 PM SL Time Charging the Sri Lankan government with `destroying evidence of Tamil history` in the country, LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran has said it was the duty of the authors and literateurs to ensure `the records exist.`
`Attempts are being made by the (Sri Lankan) security forces, through bombing and shelling, to destroy the wealth and properties of Tamils. Another community has started occupying their (Tamil) areas and the evidence of Tamil history is sought to be destroyed,` Prabhakaran said.
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Stop Indian military aid to Sri Lanka: Tamil Nadu leaders Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:38 AM SL Time New Delhi unabashedly rolling the red carpet to Sri Lankan military chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka has caused a furore among Tamil Nadu politicians who have urged the Indian Central Government to `stop all military aid to the genocidal government of Sri Lanka.` Paddali Makkal Kadchi (PMK, Toilers` Party) founder-leader S Ramadoss and Viduthalai Chiruththaikal Kadchi (VCK, Liberation Panthers Party) President Thol Thirumavalavan accused the Central Government of sabotaging Tamil aspirations on the Sri Lankan issue by lending support to the military-backed genocide of the Eelam Tamils.
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Gang targetting Sri Lankan train commuters identified Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:33 AM SL Time The Anuradhapura Police on Wednesday arrested a member of a gang that befriends train commuters and steals their valuables after drugging them. He was arrested at the Anuradhapura Railway station when Police searched the Uttaradevi train plying from Medwachiya to Anuradhapura. Police said the arrested man, from Galenbindunuwewa, had earlier served as a home guard. Just prior to his arrest he had given drugged wafer biscuits to two railway commuters and robbed them of a mobile phone and cash amounting to Rs 3,400. The two unconscious commuters were removed from the train and admitted to the Anuradhapura Hospital, Police said.
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Sri Lanka Army unloads ammunition consignments in Jaffna Thursday, 13 March 2008 - 8:00 PM SL Time Even after a lapse of one-and-a-half-year, the families of at least 100 civilians killed and 84 wounded in Vaakarai region of Batticaloa district during Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive, are still waiting for their compensations from the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL). In the meantime, the families of the victims of previous SLA offensives before the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA), who were assured of their sanctioned compensations, complained that the authorities were still delaying their payments. Before the local elections in Batticaloa in March 2008, the GoSL offered some fishing nets to fishermen societies and gifted 25,000 rupees per temple in Vaakarai.
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JVP in Sri Lanka may be arming again Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:42 AM SL Time JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said recently, `JVP will fight to the fall of last member if the Provincial Councils that lead the country towards separatism will be brought back. The Provincial Councils that are to be brought to North and East are not the same Provincial Councils that are in South. They will have land and police powers. More powers will be vested to raise foreign funds. We will fight against them.` JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe too said recently that JVP would lead a boycott of Indian goods again if Provincial Councils would be introduced to North and East.
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New Mayor for `Mahinda Chinthana` Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:40 AM SL Time New Mayor of Battcaloa Municipal council has pledged to closely work with the Nagenahira Navodaya` programme set up by the government to develop the East. I have been closely working with MP Basil Rajapaksha in the `Nagenahira Navodaya programme and we have submitted several develoment proposals programmes for our area. said Sivageetha Prabhakaran, alias Padmini, the new Mayor When asked about the allegations made by the opposition that the local government elections were not free and fair, Sivageetha Prabhakaran dispelled these allegations as baseless.
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Liberating East & North - why it is so painful to LTTE Wednesday, 12 March 2008 - 5:06 AM SL Time Any military movement to bring about peace is characterized by a set of clearly defined strategic objectives. In the recent past, the Sri Lankan security forces conducted operations in the East to liberate the civilians from clutches of the world`s most dangerous terrorist group, the Tamil Tigers (LTTE). The objective behind the whole operation was to let the people in the East enjoy the fruits of democracy while minimizing civilian and military casualties. This week we saw how the people in the East enjoying that freedom by electing their democratic representatives who would replace terrorists and proxies of terrorists. The East is re-awakening with fast advancing new infrastructure projects sweeping the hearts and minds of the tired civilians with hopes for a better future for their young ones. Now they can rest without the fear of their children being abducted by the LTTE to be human bombs, enjoy seeing their children going to school, and experience the power of peace and harmony. On the other hand, the security forces are proud to watch this uprising that they brought forth with unprecedented low casual rates.
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Public Transport crisis feared in Jaffna peninsula Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:41 AM SL Time Sri Lanka Electricity Board (SLEB) which supplies fuel and oil to Jaffna Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) has informed that it may have to suspend supplies to Jaffna SLTB if the arrears of 51 million rupees due is not paid, Koa ndaavil SLTB head office sources said. Already 40 buses in the three depots of Jaffna SLTB are not functioning due to lack of spare tires, and if SLEB suspends supply the entire bus service may ground to a halt, the sources added.
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Laksala online real time Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:35 AM SL Time In keeping with the world trends in commercial ventures, Sri Lanka Handicraft Board better known as Laksala launched its website www.laksala.lk at a ceremony held on Tuesday at its premises. The investment on this project is Rs. 12 million. The use of information technology in the spheres of marketing and promotion will enable efficient functioning and thereby increase productivity and profitability, Laksala Chairperson Ms Somakumari Tennekoon said. The move is expected to enhance the quality and sales capacity thus gaining a wider publicity for our local products, she said. `This will also help our producers and suppliers easy access to their product information at a click of a button. It will save a lot of time and money as they can operate within their areas`. The Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) in collaboration with the Laksala launched the revamped website as well as its online sales section to provide rural handicraft suppliers access their accounts on orders, inventory and payments.
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Sri Lanka tops South East Asia in Malaria control Thursday, 13 March 2008 - 7:07 AM SL Time Sri Lanka has won kudos as being the first among all South East Asian countries which had successfully controlled the Malaria epidemic. Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry sources said. The sources said that in 2007 Sri Lanka recorded only 196 Malaria patients down from 591 in 2006. The number of Malaria patients recorded in Sri Lanka in 2005 was 1640. No patient has died from Malaria in Sri Lanka after the year 2000. This is a record in South East Asia. In 2007 one patient died and he was suffering from a combination of Dengue and Malaria.
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Flog the thieves of poor man s rice! Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:34 AM SL Time It is not anti-government forces running riot at village fairs, disfiguring wayside walls with posters and launching signature campaigns that will bring down the Rajapaksa regime. They are essaying an ouster of the government in vain. They are shifting from issue to issue not knowing, as a clich goes, whether they are coming or going. The Opposition worthies should not sully their tender hands with paappa (wheat flour paste) or shout themselves hoarse at protests in the scorching sun to achieve that objective. Without exerting themselves and dissipating their energies, they can stay at home and enjoy a pint of cool bitter. For, there is no need for anyone to dislodge the present dispensation. The government is going hell for leather to commit hara-kiri. With its friends ruining things for it at the present rate, it needs no enemies.
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When political pots and kettles disparage one another Thursday, 13 March 2008 - 6:59 AM SL Time The Batticaloa mini polls have left the government cock-a-hoop, the NGO fraternity crestfallen, the LTTE irate and the UNP disappointed. The government has every good reason to preen itself on the polls outcome both politically and militarily. It has gained a tremendous boost for its southern political project by clearing the Eastern Province and successfully conducting an election in Batticaloa, besides bagging the Batticaloa Municipal Council. The military icing on its political cake is that the LTTE failed to scuttle the polls, contrary to anticipation in some quarters that the Tigers would pull a rabbit out of their hat at the last minute. The electoral victory of the Karuna Group has obviously perturbed the Tigers more than their military losses in the East.
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A triumph for democracy Wednesday, 12 March 2008 - 5:00 AM SL Time Democracy has triumphed in the East. What is of import is not who has won the local government bodies in the Batticaloa District but the fact that the Karuna Group (TMVP) has entered the democratic mainstream and Monday s polls were peaceful and free and fair but for some minor incidents. Those who went all out to thwart that election by citing various reasons have had to eat their words. The voter turnout (56 per cent) was impressive.
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Sri Lankan spinner gets suspended jail sentence Saturday, 15 March 2008 - 10:26 PM SL Time Sri Lanka spinner Kaushal Lokuarachchi on Saturday was handed a four-year suspended jail sentence for driving carelessly and killing a woman pedestrian in 2003. Judge M.N.A Gaffoor also ordered the cricketer to pay a fine of 500,000 rupees (4,716 US dollars) that would go to two charities. Lokuarachchi, 25, pleaded guilty to killing the pedestrian and injuring her son in a late-night car crash in August 2003. The judge said the player would not have to serve time as he was `suspending` the sentence for five years.
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Charith Fernando s century resuscitates Royal innings Friday, 14 March 2008 - 3:39 AM SL Time A fighting century by No.7 batsman Charith Fernando resuscitated Royal innings from a hopeless 149 for 7 to a healthy 300 form 9 at close on the opening day of their 129th Battle of the Blues three-day cricket encounter against S. Thomas begun at SSC grounds, Colombo yesterday. It looked as if the Thomians were heading for a second successive early innings win as wickets tumbled at regular intervals after their skipper Jehan Thahir elected to field first. Though his decision looked debatable on a perfect batting strip, the Thomian bowlers quickly came into the picture to support their captain s choice.
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Experienced Thomians meet rejuvenated Royalists Thursday, 13 March 2008 - 7:00 AM SL Time It will be the experience of the Thomians and the spirits of the Royalists that will be tested when the teams meet in the 129thBattle of the Blues encounter at the SSC Grounds, today. Having packed their side with eight coloursmen who featured in the 2007 victory and two freshers who have stood shoulder to shoulder with the seniors this season, third year coloursman Jehaan Thahir will have one of the best Thomian sides in recent history in the Battle of the Blues today. Third year colousman Dinal Nanayakkara will have a rejuvenated team consisting of six coloursmen and freshers who produced their best batting performance recently, to obtain the ideal boost for the Big Match .
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