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Latest News HeadlinesSri Lanka probes poster campaign.The Sri Lankan government has launched a probe into a mysterious poster campaign that is asking would-be Tamil Tiger suicide bombers to turn themselves in to government hands in return for cash. The campaign, run by an unknown pro-peace organis...
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More People Flee VanniThe exodus from uncleared areas continues and on Tuesday 26 people fled to the government controlled areas and surrendered to the Navy, the Media Centre for National Security said. Around 7.15 a.m. a family of six who fled from Veditalaitivu due t...
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Sri Lanka Air Force pound three Tiger basesAir Force jets attacked and inflicted heavy destruction on three major LTTE positions in the North yesterday. The jets bombed two LTTE positions at Alamkulam, in Mannar and a boatyard of the LTTE at Vishavkulam in Mullativu, official sources said....
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`Secret agenda` to discredit LankaThe Sri Lankan government has accused `interested parties` of working on an agenda to discredit Sri Lanka`s international image. `Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other interested parties` are accused of trying to impress upon the interna...
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UN apprised of Sri Lanka s human rights situationAmbassadors and Representatives at the United Nations in New York are being apprised of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe is in New York for meetings with UN member states. He had already held discussions wi...
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Pro-LTTE activists assault Lankan movie director in ChennaiLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supporters attacked a Sri Lankan film director in Chennai and prevented him from taking back prints of his film from a laboratory for allegedly portraying the banned outfit chief, V Prabhakaran, in a poor light. ...
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Sri Lanka to get 236 million dollar loan for thermal power plant from HSBC Thursday, 27 March 2008 - 11:15 PM SL Time HSBC yesterday announced that it has arranged a 236 million US dollar loan facility to a local firm to build a thermal power plant at Kerawalapitiya in Wattala, a suburb of capital Colombo.
According to the global banking giant, the 14 year loan from US and European credit agencies has set a benchmark by being the longest tenure achieved in Sri Lanka for a foreign debt. The government of Sri Lanka has guaranteed the loan, it said. The Kerawalapitiya power plant is intended to generate 300 megawatts to the national grid. The project worth of 280 million US dollars is to be undertaken by West Coast Power Private Limited under aegis of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Employee Provident Fund and Private Sector Retirement Fund.
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Close down Sri Lankan Consulate in Chennai Thursday, 27 March 2008 - 10:08 AM SL Time Accusing the Sri Lankan Consulate in Chennai of false propaganda, unlawful intelligence gathering and tipping off exercises, Agni Subramaniam, the Executive Director of Chennai based Manitham Human Rights Organization is requesting the authorities to close down this Consulate.
He has made several accusations against this Consulate in an interview to Kumudam Reporter, the well known Tamil weekly magazine from Tamilnadu. The English translation of this week``s (23 03 2008) Kumudam Reporter article is as follows:
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India will never allow separate State in Lanka: Prime Minister Wednesday, 26 March 2008 - 7:45 PM SL Time India will never allow a separate independent state for Tamils to be carved out from Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka said here yesterday.
`It should be borne in mind that India will never allow a separate independent state for Tamils in Sri Lanka because such a development will have a disastrous effect in India,` Wickramanayaka, who is the first Sri Lankan Prime Minister to visit Israel, told a gathering. `India has always been committed to Sri Lanka`s territorial integrity,` he added. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister, who is on a four-day visit, claimed that LTTE leader V Prabhakaran wanted to create a Tamil state by `including certain parts of India as well`. Seeking international support in the fight against LTTE, Wickramanayaka said it has become a cross border menace which requires global coordination.
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Sri Lanka probes poster campaign. Friday, 28 March 2008 - 10:02 PM SL Time The Sri Lankan government has launched a probe into a mysterious poster campaign that is asking would-be Tamil Tiger suicide bombers to turn themselves in to government hands in return for cash. The campaign, run by an unknown pro-peace organisation, promises a new life overseas and $US93,000 each to extremists who change their minds Those contemplating taking up the offer are asked to call a government operated telephone line. The government has denied having any hand in the poster.
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More People Flee Vanni Friday, 28 March 2008 - 3:31 AM SL Time The exodus from uncleared areas continues and on Tuesday 26 people fled to the government controlled areas and surrendered to the Navy, the Media Centre for National Security said. Around 7.15 a.m. a family of six who fled from Veditalaitivu due to LTTE atrocities, surrendered to the Kurusapadu Naval detachment in Mannar. Another group of nine, consisting of four families who had fled from another uncleared area in Kilinochchi, surrendered to the Pallimunai Naval Detachment in Mannar around 9. a.m while a group of 11, consisting four families fleeing an uncontrolled area, surrendered to the Pallimunai Naval Detachment around 9.45 a.m., the MCNS said.
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Sri Lanka Air Force pound three Tiger bases Thursday, 27 March 2008 - 4:01 AM SL Time Air Force jets attacked and inflicted heavy destruction on three major LTTE positions in the North yesterday. The jets bombed two LTTE positions at Alamkulam, in Mannar and a boatyard of the LTTE at Vishavkulam in Mullativu, official sources said. They said that a number of LTTE cadres were killed in the attacks.
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`Secret agenda` to discredit Lanka Friday, 28 March 2008 - 10:08 PM SL Time The Sri Lankan government has accused `interested parties` of working on an agenda to discredit Sri Lanka`s international image. `Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other interested parties` are accused of trying to impress upon the international community that there is no mechanism in the island to implement international treaties on human rights. Minister in charge of investment promotion, Prof. GL Peiris, told journalists in Colombo that the groups are trying to stop tax reliefs offered by the EU for 7500 Sri Lankan products.
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UN apprised of Sri Lanka s human rights situation Friday, 28 March 2008 - 3:44 AM SL Time Ambassadors and Representatives at the United Nations in New York are being apprised of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe is in New York for meetings with UN member states. He had already held discussions with several representatives including John Holmes, the Special UN Representative on Humanitarian Assistance. Elections to extend the membership of the UN Human Rights Council for next year are due to take place in May. The Minister, during his stay will have a series of discussions with at least 40 Ambassadors from various countries represented at the UN. Meanwhile the Disaster Management and Human Rights Ministry said even though proposals raising protests against 37 member countries of the Human Rights Council had been submitted, it is a positive trend that such a proposal on Sri Lanka had not been forwarded..
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Stop arms supply to Sri Lanka: CPI urges Indian government Friday, 28 March 2008 - 3:40 AM SL Time The Communist Party of India (CPI), a prominent ally of the ruling Congress party, has urged the Indian Government to `immediately stop supplying arms to Sri Lanka that was mindlessly killing Tamil people.` A resolution to this effect was passed Wednesday in the party`s four-day 20th National Congress at Hyderabad. According to reports in the Indian media, D. Pandian, State Secretary, Tamil Nadu moved this resolution which sought New Delhi to interfere in the war-torn island`s ethnic problem towards finding a political solution.
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Pro-LTTE activists assault Lankan movie director in Chennai Thursday, 27 March 2008 - 9:59 AM SL Time Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supporters attacked a Sri Lankan film director in Chennai and prevented him from taking back prints of his film from a laboratory for allegedly portraying the banned outfit chief, V Prabhakaran, in a poor light. The incident took place on Tuesday at Gemini Lab in Chennai where Lankan director Thushara Peiris had come to take prints of his film Prabhakaran , which shows the miseries of the people due to the civil war through the eyes of an escaped LTTE cadre.
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RDA to launch city beautification program in Sri Lanka capital Thursday, 27 March 2008 - 4:17 AM SL Time The Road Development Authority of Sri Lanka is launching a city beautification program tomorrow. According the government sources, the first project under this program is to be carried in to effect at the Parliament roundabout in Colombo. The road between the Parliament roundabout and Devi Balika College will be cleaned, said the sources. All garbage on waysides of the road and all unwarranted billboards will be removed. Constructing of water ponds to beautify roundabouts will be commenced, said the sources.
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Sri LankaTelecom boss denies sale of NTT stake Tuesday, 25 March 2008 - 7:59 AM SL Time Sri Lanka Telecom Chairperson Leisha Chandrasena dismissed speculation that the 35% of the Sri Lanka Telecom stake held by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co Ltd (NTT) of Japan had been sold to Maxis of Malaysia. We have not been informed yet of an imminent sale of these shares and even if so, that is a private transaction between those two parties which we are not involved and which we are not privy to, Chandrasena told the Daily News Business last night.
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Shameful political sham Friday, 28 March 2008 - 3:31 AM SL Time `If you tell the truth,` said Mark Twain, `you don t have to remember anything.` Those who utter untruth, fibs, falsehoods, half-truths and lies, have to have a great deal of grey matter to remember them and repeat them consistently later on. The trouble is more serious when a collective of persons resorts to lying, for each and every member of the group has to be careful enough to avoid lapsus calami and lapsus linguae. And there arise situations in life when people have to tell the truth even at the risk of contradicting themselves and having egg on their face. How the present government landed itself in the soup over the Muttur killings is a case in point.
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A question of belling the cat Thursday, 27 March 2008 - 4:13 AM SL Time This is an era of activism. Radicalisation of institutions is the order of the day! The judiciary is leading the way by taking on the legislature and the executive and its campaign has had a bandwagon effect. Several other institutions are apparently following suit with the noble goal of turning this little country into a five star democracy. Now, we hear that the Organisation of Professional Associations (OPA) is planning to move a resolution calling upon all political parties to impeach President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The proposal to be moved at a Special General Meeting of the OPA on April 08, 2008 reads: The OPA calls upon all political parties represented in Parliament to bring in a motion to impeach the President and ask them to put aside sectarian party interests and instead act to uphold the Constitution that they have sworn to uphold and follow.
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It s school admissions stupid! Tuesday, 25 March 2008 - 7:42 PM SL Time The national policy on Grade One school admissions is in the news again. It is being presented to the Cabinet at long last, we are told. After it passes muster at that level, it will be presented to Parliament. But, from what is reported in the press about the new policy, one cannot be sanguine about a lasting solution being found. A strategy to tackle the problem has to go way beyond juggling with percentages and quotas, however necessary they may be as short term measures to retard the country s slide towards a disaster in education.
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Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 121 runs Friday, 28 March 2008 - 3:32 AM SL Time Sri Lanka`s left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas, bowls during the second innings in the final day of the first cricket Test match against the West Indies. Sri Lanka got a historic first win in the Caribbean as they defeated the West Indies by 121 runs. GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Chaminda Vaas took five for 61 to lead Sri Lanka to an historic first win in the Caribbean, defeating West Indies by 121 runs with 6.4 overs left in the opening test on Wednesday.
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WI chase improbable 437 to win Thursday, 27 March 2008 - 4:15 AM SL Time Dwayne Bravo and Ramnaresh Sarwan scored an unbeaten 74 together as West Indies made an encouraging start on Tuesday in its quest to avoid defeat against Sri Lanka in the opening cricket Test. West Indies closed its second innings on 96 for one, needing to bat through Wednesday`s final day to secure a draw or reach an improbable victory target of 437 at Providence Stadium. Earlier, West Indies had resumed on 269-9 and avoided the follow-on but conceded a huge first-innings lead of 196.
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Kandy dropped for India tour of Sri Lanka Tuesday, 25 March 2008 - 8:10 AM SL Time COLOMBO (AFP) - Kandy`s Asgiriya Stadium has been excluded as a venue from India`s three-Test and one-day international tour of Sri Lanka in July, officials said Monday. `There will be two Tests in Colombo with one in Galle,` Samantha Algama, spokesman for Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), told AFP. It will be the first time the Indians will not play a Test in Kandy during a three-Test series hosted by Sri Lanka. The Indians will also play five ODIs, comprising two day matches and three day-night games.
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