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COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least four people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-struck northern Sri Lanka, officials said on Saturday.

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers attacked a refugee camp of Internally Displaced People borde..

Sri Lanka’s air force carried out a series of attacks against Tamil Tiger rebel targets, including a guerrilla training camp, while a separate infantry clash killed four guerrillas, the military said Saturday.

Nov 29, Colombo: The heavy rainfall during the past few days has deluged several parts across the country killing at least seven people and displacing tens of thousands including the already displaced in embattled northern Sri Lanka.

Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to meet Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Monday during a brief unofficial visit to Italy, Italian media reported.

Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lankan government says it plans to cultivate nearly 100,000 acres of additional land in Eastern Province…

Nov 29, Colombo: After days of fierce fighting facing heavy resistance from LTTE, Sri Lankan troops advancing in the northeast have entered another town held by the LTTE this afternoon, the military said.

Sat, Nov 29, 2008 (6:09 a.m.) Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka.

Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least four people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-struck northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least four people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-struck northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

Military captured the Othiyamalai village, South East of Nedunkerni. Troops are now some 4 km away from Nedunkerni in Mullaitivu- Defence sources-

Sri Lanka’s air force carried out a series of attacks against Tamil Tiger rebels, including a heavy gun position and a guerrilla training camp, the military said Saturday.

Sri Lanka’s air force carried out a series of attacks against Tamil Tiger rebels, including a heavy gun position and a guerrilla training camp, the military said Saturday.

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers attacked a refugee camp with Internally Displaced People in Naathankudiyiruppu in Kallaa’ru, Ki’linochchi in the early hours of Saturday around 1:35 a.m. Two dead bodies, including a 5-year-old child, were brought to Tharmapuram hospital so far, according to medical sources. 19 civilians including seven children below 10 years [...]

The Batticaloa district local government chairmen’s federation informed the President Mahinda Rajapakse via Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillaiyan that the Army was responsible for the spate of killing that took place in the villages of the district in the past few days.

After days of fierce gunbattles and stiff LTTE resistance troops of the 59 Division have entered Otiyamalai general area, at the Mullaittivu battlefront today (Nov 29) afternoon.

The politburo of the Upcountry People’s Front (UPF), has agreed to urge the government to go for an immediate ceasefire, UPF MP and Deputy Minister of Vocational and Technical Training P. Radakrishnan said

Under a backdrop where coconut crops cannot be sold in coconut auction, several government politicians and officials are making the best of it by issuing palm oil import licence to 50 desiccated coconut millers under a quota system, 'Lanka Dissent' learns.

Over two thousand sportsmen and women from 22 districts including the north and east got down to participate in the 20th National Youth Sports Festival which started yesterday at the D. A. Rajapaksa Stadium in Beliatta.

Sri Lanka remain on course for a series whitewash, with Zimbabwe failing to convert opportunities to press Sri Lanka down .

Nov 29, Colombo: Their Majesties Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan paid a visit to the Sri Lanka Cultural Heritage Exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum on Wednesday.

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 2008 11.00 AM) Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva issued an interim injunction yesterday (28) suspending duties of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 2008, 11.00AM) The Special Investigation Unit of Maradana police station arrested a Buddhist monk who allegedly ran a brothel of boy prostitutes…

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 2008, 11.00 AM) One soldier was killed in a clash with the LTTE at Inguruwaththa, Pokuraniya area in Thoppigala 27th night. Army spokesman Brigadier udaya Nanayakkara said…

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 2008, 11.00 AM) Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) that is now in a dialogue with the United National Party (UNP) for a broad dialogue…

Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets and MI-24 combat helicopters launched combined air raids and ground support assaults at identified LTTE positions in Piramanthalkulama and south of Adampan, Kilinochchi, since early Friday morning, the military said.

Nov 29, Colombo: In an unusual move, Sri Lanka is looking into the possibility of initiating a pension scheme to all the senior population in the country.

Nov 29, Colombo: Convener of Sri Lanka Freedom Party - Peoples’ faction (SLFP-M) and parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera came under fire from the government in Parliament yesterday for his critical comment made against Army Commander Sarath Fonseka at a recent news conference.

Jehan Mubarak scored an unbeaten 60 to guide Sri Lanka to a narrow two-wicket win over Zimbabwe on Friday, giving the visitors a 4-0 lead in the five-match series. Zimbabwe, put in to bat, were skittled for 146 in 46.3 overs as spinner Ajantha Mendis took six for 29.

Nov 29, Colombo: A Police curfew was imposed on Saturday with effect from 5:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening in twelve Police Divisions in the Sri Lanka’s eastern Batticaloa district, to track down LTTE cadres in the area, in the aftermath of the killing of 15 civilians in the last few days.

Several decomposed corpses of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were still lying within the no-man area between the SLA and Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) frontiers in Kugnchukkulam no man zone, informed sources revealed on Friday. The SLA soldiers had maneuvered deep into LTTE trap, according to the source, which said it was the first [...]

Fri, Nov 28, 2008 (10:39 p.m.) At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

Opposition leader of the Sabaragamuwa PC Ranjan (One shot) Ramanayake yesterday said that he wou..

So, the beleaguered Tiger chief made his annual speech on Thursday. It may have come as an utter dis..

Even the worst of criminals when caught and cornered try to show that they have regained the human q..

Despite Sri Lanka being one of the largest tea producers in the world, it had imported 7.8 million k..

New Delhi (IANS): India has no intention of lifting the ban on Sri Lanka`s Tamil Tigers, official so..

Director General of the Central Cultural Fund and Professor of the Peradeniya University Sudharshan ..

At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday. Keerthi Ekanayake of the Disaster Management Center said the northern Jaffna peninsula and Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts were inundated and nearly 6,000 houses destroyed by persistent showers over the past few [...]

(The Associated Press) At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday. Keerthi Ekanayake of the Disaster Management Center said the northern Jaffna peninsula and Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts were inundated and nearly 6,000 houses destroyed by persistent showers over [...]

Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

Sri Lanka spinner Ajantha Mendis captured a career-best 6-29 as the tourists edged Zimbabwe by two wickets to take a 4-0 lead in the five-match one-day series here on Friday.

A staff worker of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) was forcibly abducted by unidentified gunmen who entered his house on the evening of November 27 and was shot at a nearby decommissioned IDP-site, said Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Colombo on Friday. Vigneswaran, a popular and dedicated colleague, was later taken to a nearby [...]

Based on their firm conviction that development disparity is the root cause of the conflict in Sri Lanka, the United States Embassy in Sri Lanka is busy in recent times in promoting a number ‘development’ programmes, especially in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Launching a [...]

More than eighty Tamil civilians, including eight women, arrested in Colombo and Kandy in separate cordon and search operations conducted by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police on Wednesday and Thursday are
detained in respective police stations and are being interrogated.

Police curfew imposed in Batticaloa district from 6am to 6pm & search operation in progress to find LTTE cadres & weapons-Police Spokesman-JNW

At least four people were reportedly killed and two more feared dead in the floods caused by storms coupled with torrential monsoon rain during the past 6 days in Vanni. The sluice gates of Visuvamadu tank were opened as the raising water level posed great danger to the wall of the dam that has been [...]

Ajantha Mendis took six wickets and Jehan Mubarak top-scored with 60 not out on Friday to steer Sri Lanka to a two-wicket win over Zimbabwe and a 4-0 lead in the five-match limited-overs series. Afte

HARARE, Nov 28 (Reuters) Jehan Mubarak made an unbeaten 60 to guide Sri Lanka to a narrow two-wicket win over Zimbabwe today, giving the visitors a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.

Firing sounds heard from Colombo harbor is due to Navy practice exercises & no reason for concern-Navy Dep Spokesman-JNW

Several decomposed corpses of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were still lying within the no-man area between the SLA and Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) frontiers in Kugnchukkulam no man zone, informed sources revealed on Friday. The SLA soldiers had maneuvered deep into LTTE trap, according to the source, which said it was the first [...]

Jehan Mubarak made an unbeaten 60 to guide Sri Lanka to a narrow two-wicket win over Zimbabwe on Saturday, giving the visitors a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.

A one-day token fast demanding the immediate stop of the rampant killings of Tamils in Batticaloa district and the arrest of the killers was observed Friday around 9:00 a.m near Gandhi Statue in Batticaloa town, organized by Pillayan faction, Baticaloa Municipal Council (BMC), and Federation of Local Government Councils’ (LGC) Presidents, presided by the Mayor [...]

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers attacked Paranthan, a key junction north of Ki’linochchi on Thursday and Friday, dropping bombs on shops and offices. Latest air attack was reported at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Meanwhile, artillery barrage that targeted Paranthan and Ki’linochchi suburbs continued despite pouring rain and floods during the past five days, according [...]

Jehan Mubarak made an unbeaten 60 to guide Sri Lanka to a narrow two-wicket win over Zimbabwe on Friday, giving the visitors a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.

Harare: Jehan Mubarak made an unbeaten 60 to guide Sri Lanka to a narrow two-wicket win over Zimbabwe on Friday, giving the visitors a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.