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Latest News HeadlinesLTTE ready for talks if Lankan govt halts attacksThe Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka have expressed readiness to hold talks with the government in Colombo if it halted the military operations against them, but warned that the offer should not be seen as `any desperation` on their part to stop the war. ...
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Stop 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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Chandrika goes to the meeting in Temple Trees President welcomes her hesitatinglyFormer President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarathunga who did not participate in any of the party meetings headed by President Mahinda Rajapakse after he overpowered her, participated in the SLFP All Island Committee meeting held yesterday (14) in Te...
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TN, Kerala have LTTE pockets: M K NarayananTamil Nadu and Kerala have been asked to closely monitor the activities of Tamil Tigers as both states had `presence of small LTTE pockets`, National Security Adviser M K Naryanan said on Sunday. Central intelligence agencies were aware of `th...
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Wanni Tigers face severe food shortageThe security forces are now engaged in conducting operations to `liberate` the people of the Wanni from the grip of the Tiger terrorists. In the past few months the Security Forces have been making steady progress by launching attacks relentlessly...
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Sri Lanka nears MiG-29 purchase Saturday, 15 March 2008 - 9:07 AM SL Time Sri Lanka is in advanced talks with Russia over the procurement of five MiG-29 fighter aircraft, the head of the country`s state-owned procurement agency has said.
Jayantha Wickramasinghe, chief executive officer of Lanka Logistics and Technologies Limited (the company created by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence in 2007 to procure equipment for the armed forces), said that the acquisition of four MiG-29SMs and one MiG-29UB was `well under way`.
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Sri Lanka President says government not responsible for attacks on media people Saturday, 15 March 2008 - 4:21 AM SL Time Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the government cannot take the responsibility for the threats against media arising from certain individuals behavior.
However, he said that the government will take all actions to protect the media freedom. He made these comments speaking at an award ceremony this evening at President s office in Colombo. Speaking further he said that Sri Lanka has the media freedom at the highest level despite the claims of certain media watchdogs. He assured that the government has no hesitation to take action against any person that threatens the media freedom.
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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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LTTE ready for talks if Lankan govt halts attacks Sunday, 16 March 2008 - 10:02 PM SL Time The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka have expressed readiness to hold talks with the government in Colombo if it halted the military operations against them, but warned that the offer should not be seen as `any desperation` on their part to stop the war. `The LTTE is prepared to commence negotiations with the Sri Lankan government if the government security forces are ordered to halt their military operations. It was the government which started the war,` the LTTE political head P Nadesan told a group of Parliamentarians from the pro-rebel Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Wanni recently.
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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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Chandrika goes to the meeting in Temple Trees President welcomes her hesitatingly Sunday, 16 March 2008 - 10:12 PM SL Time Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarathunga who did not participate in any of the party meetings headed by President Mahinda Rajapakse after he overpowered her, participated in the SLFP All Island Committee meeting held yesterday (14) in Temple Trees. Ms. Bandaranaike was removed from the party leadership on her birthday but she was appointed a party adviser.
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TN, Kerala have LTTE pockets: M K Narayanan Sunday, 16 March 2008 - 10:03 PM SL Time Tamil Nadu and Kerala have been asked to closely monitor the activities of Tamil Tigers as both states had `presence of small LTTE pockets`, National Security Adviser M K Naryanan said on Sunday. Central intelligence agencies were aware of `the presence of small LTTE pockets and their counterparts in the two states have been asked to closely monitor such activities,` Narayanan told reporters. Narayanan, who was here to offer prayers at the famous Sree Krishna temple in Amalappuzha, said the Central Intelligence Bureau had informed the states about the possibility of LTTE units in Sri Lanka getting help from their supporters in the two southern states.
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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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Wanni Tigers face severe food shortage Sunday, 16 March 2008 - 10:04 PM SL Time The security forces are now engaged in conducting operations to `liberate` the people of the Wanni from the grip of the Tiger terrorists. In the past few months the Security Forces have been making steady progress by launching attacks relentlessly against Tiger terrorist strongholds to `liberate` the Wanni people from terrorist control. It has been confirmed by many independent reports the Tigers have sustained heavy casualties by the advancing troops. These reports along with the number of terrorists killed and bunkers destroyed with stocks of food, essential items including military hardware bear witness to the fact that the Tigers are feeling the heat due to troops advancing in the Mannar, Welioya and Vavuniya `fronts`.
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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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Let us Protect our Friend Sunday, 16 March 2008 - 10:10 PM SL Time Good friends are different from covert enemies in that friends help each other to stay away from danger by giving prior advises. Maybe a lot of Sri Lankans do not know that the US Department of State is a silent but genuine friend of Sri Lanka. Let me quote one example that I know for sure. US Department of State has been continuously empowering Sri Lanka to develop effective approaches to detect and remove anti-personal landmines. When a lot of other NGOs adopted destructive mechanisms like removing the top soil layer in the sensitive farmlands in Jaffna where the fertile soil layer is very thin, the US State Department assisted agencies used trained dogs to sniff for landmines that causes minimum damage to the environment. Not only that, their approach extended beyond just `giving fish to those who need fish` like many other NGOs do, to `giving fishing rods to those who need fish` by sharing know-how and empowering local institutes. All these things were done in silence like a true friend of Sri Lanka.
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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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Royal on top Thomians struggle to survive Sunday, 16 March 2008 - 10:05 PM SL Time The second days play of the 129th Battle of the Blues between Royal and S. Thomas played at the SSC ground yesterday was almost a repeat of the opening day s play. This time the Thomians were made to struggle right from the time they came into the crease. With Royal making a declaration at their overnight score of 300 for 9 it was the turn of the Thoras to take the challenge. But it was not to be as from the first over itself it was trouble for them which they did not recover like the spirited fight back put in by the Royalists.
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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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