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Latest News HeadlinesWanni liberation continues Troops captures Adampan Tank- MannarSri Lanka army infantrymen battling against terrorists on the Mannar front in the Wanni theatre of operations, captured Adampan tank area this evening (May 8), defence sources said. According to the sources, Army liberated about 2 square kilometers ...
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Ratnapura nurses strike kills three including childThree patients died at the Ratnapura Hospital, after its nursing staff, numbering around 500, went on strike from Wednesday afternoon over the transfer of a male nurse to the Kegalle General Hospital following an incident involving a lady doctor. Th...
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Army Captured 2 Square Km Of The Ad..Today (08) troops captured two square km of ground in 2km South of Adampan area including the Adampan tank in Mannar. Army conducted operations from morning till evening and captured the area. Monitoring LTTE communication channels reports Ten LTTE ...
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LTTE cadre commits suicideThe man who died after swallowing a cyanide capsule when he was arrested in Kotmale was an LTTE cadre who had fled Kandy to evade arrest, Police said. The deceased, Gajendran Kumar was arrested along with another LTTE cadre said to be from Mannar....
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Sri Lanka President, a dictator awaiting, says main oppositionSri Lanka`s main opposition, the United National Party ( UNP ) yesterday called President Rajapaksa a `dictator awaiting`. Speaking at a media briefing held at the Parliament complex, opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe said the President`s...
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Dhiraagu - Maldives forges strategic partnership with Microsoft Sri LankaDhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun Private Limited, the leading telecommunications service provider in the Maldives, has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft by opting for the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, which is Microsoft`s most preferred ...
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Sri Lankan military bars foreign media from polls Thursday, 8 May 2008 - 9:23 PM SL Time VALAICHCHENAI, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lanka`s military barred foreign journalists Thursday from covering weekend elections in the east that are seen as a test of confidence in the government, which seized the region from Tamil Tiger rebels last year.
Maj. Gen. Palitha Fernando said any foreigner not registered as an election observer cannot be in Eastern province during the polls. An Associated Press reporter and a photographer were stopped at a checkpoint and were asked to go back. Fernando said the barring of journalists and other foreigners during the elections was for their own protection.
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Myanmar deaths may top 100,000 Thursday, 8 May 2008 - 4:47 AM SL Time The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar may exceed 100,000, the senior U.S. diplomat in the military-ruled country said Wednesday.
`The information we are receiving indicates over 100,000 deaths,` said the U.S. charge d`affaires in Yangon, Shari Villarosa. The U.S. figure is almost five times the 22,000 the Myanmar government has estimated. The U.S. estimate is based on data from an international non-governmental organization, Villarosa said without naming the group. She called the situation in Myanmar `more and more horrendous.`
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LTTE forced Canadian Tamils to sign pre-payment forms. Wednesday, 7 May 2008 - 11:41 PM SL Time Toronto, May 7 (IANS) Canadian police have seized documents showing Tamil Tigers leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran soliciting money from Tamils here for his armed struggle in Sri Lanka.
The documents, seized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in raids on the offices of the World Tamil Movement in Toronto and Montreal, show a 2002 letter by Prabhakaran, asking Tamils in Canada to send him 15 of the ``100 crore`` rupees he needs for his armed struggle. Fifteen crore Sri Lankan rupees is equal to about three million Canadian dollars.
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Wanni liberation continues Troops captures Adampan Tank- Mannar Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:09 AM SL Time Sri Lanka army infantrymen battling against terrorists on the Mannar front in the Wanni theatre of operations, captured Adampan tank area this evening (May 8), defence sources said. According to the sources, Army liberated about 2 square kilometers area in the South of Adampan town, after hours long fighting since this morning. The newly liberated area lies between the Neelachcheana road and the dam of the Adampan tank, sources further said. Army launched the offensive around 4 am, attacking fortified LTTE bunker defences in the area. The soldiers braved against dens minefields and booby traps and captured the bunkers after few hours of fighting. By 4 pm, ground troops claimed that 8 LTTE bunkers including a trench line were destroyed.
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Ratnapura nurses strike kills three including child Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:01 AM SL Time Three patients died at the Ratnapura Hospital, after its nursing staff, numbering around 500, went on strike from Wednesday afternoon over the transfer of a male nurse to the Kegalle General Hospital following an incident involving a lady doctor. There was a shortage of drugs and equipment yesterday as they had been locked in cabinets and nurses had the keys. An angry Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva instructed the Health Services Director General Dr. Ajith Mendis to hold an immediate inquiry into the deaths and submit a report to him which he said he intended to forward to the Attorney General for legal action.
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Army Captured 2 Square Km Of The Ad.. Thursday, 8 May 2008 - 9:50 PM SL Time Today (08) troops captured two square km of ground in 2km South of Adampan area including the Adampan tank in Mannar. Army conducted operations from morning till evening and captured the area. Monitoring LTTE communication channels reports Ten LTTE carders were killed in the confrontations. One soldier laid his life while another soldier was reported injured.
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LTTE cadre commits suicide Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:02 AM SL Time The man who died after swallowing a cyanide capsule when he was arrested in Kotmale was an LTTE cadre who had fled Kandy to evade arrest, Police said. The deceased, Gajendran Kumar was arrested along with another LTTE cadre said to be from Mannar. They had been in Kandy but fled when the police launched a search for Gajendran Kumar to question him about the purpose of his visiting Kandy. Police believe that he and his accomplice, now under interrogation, had been in Kandy to plan an attack on a civilian target or a VIP.
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Sri Lanka President, a dictator awaiting, says main opposition Thursday, 8 May 2008 - 9:48 PM SL Time Sri Lanka`s main opposition, the United National Party (UNP) yesterday called President Rajapaksa a `dictator awaiting`. Speaking at a media briefing held at the Parliament complex, opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe said the President`s decision to end the parliamentary sessions would be followed by the next step of ending the democracy. Wickremasinghe said that he was unaware that the session had been closed until he arrived at the parliament Wednesday morning.
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Say no to Sri Lanka`s Bid for U.N. Rights Council Seat. Thursday, 8 May 2008 - 5:00 AM SL Time 6 May 2008 Your Excellency, We are a coalition of nongovernmental organizations from all parts of the world. We write to urge that your government not vote for Sri Lanka for membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council in the election in the General Assembly on 21 May 2008 because of Sri Lanka s failure to meet the Council s membership standards. In doing so, we strongly support the position of human rights organizations from within Sri Lanka, who state that their government fails to meet the membership standards, has presided over a grave deterioration of human rights protection since first winning Council membership in 2006, and has used its membership of the Human Rights Council to protect itself from scrutiny. Their letter of 28 April 2008 is available online at http://www.cpalanka.org/research_papers/civil_society_letter_on_re%20election_of_SL_to_HRC_April%2028.pdf
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Dhiraagu - Maldives forges strategic partnership with Microsoft Sri Lanka Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:10 AM SL Time Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun Private Limited, the leading telecommunications service provider in the Maldives, has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft by opting for the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, which is Microsoft`s most preferred offering to its corporate customers. By forging this significant alliance, Microsoft Sri Lanka further consolidates its growing business influence in the Maldives. A globally respected national telecommunication company, Dhiraagu owns and operates a fully digital communications network reaching every island and tourist resort in the Maldives.
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Sri Lanka launches new website on `Eastern Revival` Friday, 9 May 2008 - 2:13 AM SL Time Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday ceremoniously launched a new web site on the development programs and progress of the Eastern Province. The new website www.neweast.lk will serve as an international information gateway to the Eastern Revival Programme, a press release issued by the government said.
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New transit camp in Habarana for soldiers to and from East Thursday, 8 May 2008 - 4:56 AM SL Time A transit camp constructed at a cost of 61 million rupees in Habarana along Trincomalee-Kandy road by the Industrial development Ministry ensuring safety stay for soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army and Sri Lanka Navy traveling to and from eastern province to other areas in the south was handed over to the Defense Ministry last week. 102 sailors of the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) died in a suicide bomb attack on 16th October 2006 when large numbers of SLA and SLN troopers working in east were staying at a site in Habarana to change buses to travel to their villages
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Trade unionists as killers Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:03 AM SL Time Hippocrates and Florence Nightingale would spin in their graves if they knew what doctors and nurses were doing in this country. Some of those who have taken the Hippocratic Oath have turned out to be a bunch of inveterate hypocrites not caring two hoots about professional conduct and some of the followers of the Lady with the lamp have come to be ladies (and gentlemen) with bludgeons which they wave freely at anyone. Trade union action by the JVP nurses union at the Ratnapura General Hospital in retaliation for the transfer of a male nurse who locked horns with a doctor the other day has resulted in the loss of three lives including that of a child, according to the Ministry of Health. The hospital director has sought to dispute these figures. He says only one patient has died. It is not the numbers that matter. The fact remains that the strike has led to destruction of life. We have nurses and doctors trying to blame one another for the tragic situation.
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That prorogation rabbit out of President s hat Thursday, 8 May 2008 - 4:50 AM SL Time This country may be short of anything but issues. They crop up at such a rate that people are at a loss as to how to cope with them. They simply don t have time and energy to concentrate on each and every issue. Therefore, they tend to treat even serious matters perfunctorily and fatalistically. Public focus shifts from issue to issue and as a result there doesn t occur, virtually on anything, a substantial public debate effective enough to shape public opinion for or against it. This kind of situation has stood governments in good stead.
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Disarm them all! Wednesday, 7 May 2008 - 4:42 AM SL Time The campaign to have the TMVP stripped of its arms before the May 10 Eastern PC polls, has got into Over Drive mode. Some civil society members have, we are told, even resorted to legal action to achieve that objective. They deserve public support as the intimidatory presence of any armed group needs to be obviated prior to any electoral exercise, if it is to be free and fair. But, is it only the TMVP that needs to be disarmed? In a democracy, only the armed forces, the police and other state agencies responsible for public security should be allowed to carry arms. If it is the protection of democracy that one seeks, it is imperative that one campaign for disarming all other armed groups. Unfortunately, some civil society and political activists are being selective in their efforts to protect democracy against violent elements. While baying for Pillaiyan s blood, they are mollycoddling Prabhakaran and his killers thus making a mockery of their campaign for democracy.
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SLC s coaching wing moves to R. Premadasa Stadium Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:03 AM SL Time The coaching wing of Sri Lanka Cricket was moved to R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium and the new premises of SLC was declared opened, by the Chairman of the Interim Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket Arjuna Ranatunga, yesterday. This means the entire coaching staff of SLC will be housed at the R. Premadasa Stadium, instead of Maitland Place, the home of Sri Lankan cricket.
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Bigger than their balls Wednesday, 7 May 2008 - 4:46 AM SL Time A school in Colombo which is desperate to make a mark in the rugby arena is said to have taken two players from another Colombo school who were allegedly sacked for disciplinary reasons. One of the players is alleged to have stolen a cell phone while the other has pilfered fuel from a staffer s vehicle. They did not succeed at their first attempt to wash away their sins when a top school they went to said no thanks . One of them even had the guts to threaten his former team-mates if they honked him while he represented his new school.
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India and Sri Lanka continue winning ways Tuesday, 6 May 2008 - 9:04 PM SL Time Karu Jain and Jhulan Goswami, India`s stand-in captain, stitched together a 53-run fifth-wicket stand to help their side overcome Bangladesh in Dambulla and record a fourth-successive win in the Women`s Asia Cup. Chashing 161, India collapsed to 58 for 3, with Anagha Deshpande, Asha Rawat and Thirush Kamini falling on 18. Deshpande was bowled by Panna Ghosh while the other two were run-out. Priyanka Roy and Rumeli Dhar briefly steadied the innings by adding 30, before Roy became the third run-out victim. Dhar, however, could not build on her 39-ball 31 when she was caught by Ghosh off Shathira Jhatir. Jain and Goswami then stood firm to take India to safety, with Jain being the main aggressor, striking five boundaries.
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