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35,727 families displaced in Jaffna, Mannar due to floods while 1,941 houses damaged in Jaffna-Disaster Management Centre-JNW

Source: Reuters By Ranga Sirilal

COLOMBO, Nov. 27 (Reuters) - Torrential rain bogged down Sri Lanka’s siege of the Tamil Tigers’ headquarters town on Thursday, the day the separatists’ chief was due to deliver his …

Nov 27, Colombo: Sri Lankan security forces have taken extra measures to tighten the security in several key areas of the capital Colombo city today in anticipation of the reclusive rebel leader’s annual Heroes’ Week speech following his 54th birthday.

Nov 27, Colombo: Doctors in Sri Lanka are to meet their executive council this morning to take a final decision on the working conditions in the North and East.

Nov 27, Colombo: Quoting a leading child psychiatric specialist Dr. Swarna Wijetunga, a Sri Lankan Sinhala language daily Divaina, said the country has only three child psychiatric specialists to cater to six million children.

Nov 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka Legal Draftsman’s Department is planning a new Agrarian Services Bill that will enable the state to take over uncultivated land ensuring the rights of the tenant farmers.

Nov 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka Teacher Service Union Secretary Mahinda Jayasinghe says that his union is now having discussions with the authorities to take over the governance of the Education Workers’ Thrift and Cooperative Society.

Nov 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Public Administration and Local Affairs is reportedly under scathing attacks by some political elements with the recent appointments of 2,600 village officers.

(Lanka-e-News, November 27, 2008, 9.20 AM) A Fundamental rights petition was filed in Sri Lanka Supreme Court yesterday (26) seeking the cancellation of the pact between the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) and the banks…

Vaiko, the general secretary of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetta Kazhakam (MDMK) from Tamil Nadu, while addressing British parliamentarians of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Tamils on Wednesday in the British Parliament, said that the British Parliament has a moral responsibility to rectify the historic injustice caused on to the Eezham Tamils during the colonial [...]

Counter-terrorist operations continuing on Kilinochchi fronts amid torrential rains, forward troops positioned along an LTTE earth bund-Defence Ministry-JNW

Unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade Wednesday around 8:00 p.m on a police sentry post near Kalladi Clock Tower, seriously injuring a policeman. A Tamil civilian was seriously injured when the policemen in the sentry post opened indiscriminate fire following the attack.

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Special Task Force (STF) commandos lying in ambush shot and killed two youths Tuesday around 11:00 p.m while the youths were going along Koamaari-Oora’ni Veethi in Poththuvil police division.

A 195.5 mm rainfall was recorded from Monday to Tuesday evening alone by the Sri Lanka Meteorological Department in Thirunelveali in Jaffna peninsula. Two feet high sea water has entered Karaiyoor, Paasaiyoor, Kaakkaitheevu and Naavanthu’rai areas along the coast of Jaffna lagoon forcing residents to seek shelter in nearby churches and schools. Electricity supply, transport [...]

Nineteen Tamil civilians including six women were taken into custody
by the Sri Lanka police in a cordon and search operation conducted in
Wattegama town in Kandy district in the central province on Tuesday, sources
in Kandy said. The arrested are being held in Wattegama police station and
are being interrogated.

A Tamil youth was abducted from his house located in Linganagar,
suburb in Trincomalee town by unidentified armed persons who arrived in a
white van Tuesday night, according to a complaint lodged with the
Trincomalee police headquarters.

UK: Pirates may be targeting high-value vessels using inside information and sophisticated tracking systems from several countries including Sri Lanka.

Nov 26, Colombo: Nearly 136,000 families have faced difficulties due to the torrential rains lashing for the past few days throughout the country.

Nov 26, Colombo: The British government had implemented some changes to its immigration system with immediate effect.

The Indian Government has described the LTTE as a lethal terrorist outfit, more dangerous than Al Qa..

Nov 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka police this evening arrested the main suspect of a gang who raped and robbed an elderly German woman recently.

A round-up of the second-round matches of the Premier League Tournament in Sri Lanka.

Nov 26, Colombo: Having captured Mankulam and Olumadu towns yesterday, Sri Lankan troops are now advancing towards the northeastern coastal LTTE stronghold of Mullaitivu, the military said today.

Pro-LTTE websites have reported that the 54th birthday celebrations of the aging leader Velupillai P..

Nov 26, Colombo:Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said today during the period of amnesty 5,003 absentee soldiers have reported for duty at their respective Regiments.

BBC profiles the elusive leader of the LTTE in Sri Lanka as security forces vying to capture the political HQ of the rebels.

Nov 26, Colombo: The fall of Tamil Tiger rebels’ mini-state, Killinochchi in northern Sri Lanka is imminent since the security forces have established their power in the outskirts, the Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said today.

A 195.5 mm rainfall was recorded from Monday to Tuesday evening alone by the Sri Lanka Meteorological Department in Thirunelveali in Jaffna peninsula. Two feet high sea water has entered Karaiyoor, Paasaiyoor, Kaakkaitheevu and Naavanthu’rai areas along the coast of Jaffna lagoon forcing residents to seek shelter in nearby churches and schools. Electricity supply, transport [...]

Nov 26, Colombo: A fundamental rights petition was filed in Sri Lanka Supreme Court today requesting the production of the secret pact the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) had with the banks…

Nov 26, Colombo: Seven persons belonged to two ethnic Tamil families in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka were massacred by unidentified gunmen within the last 24 hours, police said.

Nov 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka government spokesman on national security Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that the government had allocated 500 million rupees for the reconstruction and development of the A-32 northwestern coastal highway from Mannar to Pooneryn.

Asian Football confederation (AFC) has shown green signal to Sri Lanka to join the Vision Asia project, official sources said. The official website of AFC reported that the green light was given at the Vision Asia Bureau meeting in Shanghai for Sri Lanka’s application.

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed the parents, son and daughter Tuesday around 12:30 p.m in Ka’luvaangchchikkudi police division and in a separate shooting unidentified armed men shot and killed a young woman Tuesday around 9:15 p.m in Vaazhaichcheanai police division while unidentified armed men shot and killed a family man Tuesday around 11:00 p.m in [...]

Nineteen Tamil civilians including six women were taken into custody by the Sri Lanka police in a cordon and search operation conducted in Wattegama town in Kandy district in the central province on Tuesday, sources in Kandy said. The arrested are being held in Wattegama police station and are being interrogated.

Emergency relief supplies, sent by the efforts of Tamil Nadu people and their government, received in 100 containers in Colombo 11 days ago, have not reached Vanni due to the sabotage by the Sri Lankan military, a top government official, who did not wished to be named, told TamilNet. Severe flooding has cut off [...]

Increasing water levels due to non-stop rain the past five days, and the earth bunds critically weakened to withstand water pressure in several irrigation tanks, including Visuvamadu and Udaiyaarkaddu in Vanni, are posing increasing danger to populated neighborhoods and closeby temporary shelters of internally displaced, civil society sources in Vanni said. More than 10,000 IDPs [...]

Sri Lanka’s military on Wednesday said the Tamil Tigers’ headquarters town would fall imminently, a day before the rebels’ chief was due to give his yearly rallying cry to one of Asia’s longest modern insurgencies.

(Lanka-e-News, November 26, 2008, 5.00 PM) Four LTTE cadres hidden in the jungle close to the Buddhist temple of Horowpothana, Ambagasweva village were killed by Army…

(Lanka-e-News, November 26, 2008, 5.00 PM) Media spokesman on National Security Minister Keheliya Rambukwella says that the security forces are anout to capture Kilinochchi at any moment.

Minister Rambukwella made…

(Lanka-e-News, November 26, 2008, 5.00 PM) Three LTTE cadres suspected for killing doctor Palitha of Vavunathivu hospital of Batticaloa were killed by the Special Task Force (STF),…

(Lanka-e-News, November 26, 2008, 5.30 PM) Media spokesman for national security Minister Keheliya Rambukwella thanked Indian central government for its contribution…

Authorities in Sri Lanka say their forces will soon capture the Tamil Tiger rebels’ stronghold of Kilinochchi.

The country's development is based on the success of Agricultural sector, Minister of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services, Maithripala Sirisena said in Parliament today (26).

Minister of Nation Building S. M. Chandrasena said his Ministry had been allocated Rs 24,000 million for 2009 and Rs 6,000 million had been set aside for community driven livelihood development and the infrastructural development in the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts.

National organizer of the UNP, S.B. Dissanayake says he hopes to contest for the post of deputy leader of the party.

The Fisheries Ministry has reportedly lost Rs. 1,700 million in income, owing to a letter issued by a very senior official that allows unloading of fish free of charge at Galle harbour.

Sri Lanka’s government says its troops are on the outskirts of the political headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebels. A defence spokesman said the rebels appeared to have abandoned their defences in the town of Kilinochchi and that it was expected to fall soon.

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka said on Wednesday its troops are poised to capture the Tamil Tigers' political headquarters and are advancing on the rebels' main military base.

Sri Lanka said on Wednesday its troops are poised to capture the Tamil Tigers’ political headquarters and are advancing on the rebels’ main military base.

Sri Lanka is set to make a couple of changes in their side for the fourth one day international against Zimbabwe to be played in Harare on Saturday.

Rebel forces were retreating Wednesday from the town of Kilinochchi and the government expected to capture the Tamil Tiger’s administrative capital imminently, a senior official said. The fall of Kilinochchi would be devastating to the separatist group, which once controlled a large de facto state in northern Sri Lanka but has been forced into a [...]

Source: Reuters (Recasts, adds other clashes) By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Nov. 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s military on Wednesday said the Tamil Tigers’ headquarters town would fall imminently, a day before the …

(The Associated Press) Sri Lankan troops are on the outskirts of Kilinochchi and expect the Tamil Tiger’s administrative capital to fall imminently, the government said Wednesday. The capture of Kilinochchi would be a devastating blow to the separatist group, which once controlled a large de facto state in northern Sri Lanka but has been forced [...]

Graphic with maps comparing the areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka since end of 2005, according to the defence ministry.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan troops are on the outskirts of Kilinochchi and expect the Tamil Tiger’s administrative capital to fall imminently, the government said Wednesday.

Sri Lankan troops are on the outskirts of Kilinochchi and expect the Tamil Tiger’s administrative capital to fall imminently, the government said Wednesday. The capture of Kilinochchi would be a devastating blow to the separatist group, which once controlled a large de facto state in northern Sri Lanka but has been forced into a [...]

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — A tropical cyclone passed over northern Sri Lanka, where security forces are fighting Tamil Tiger rebels, and is heading toward India with heavy rains and winds of 83 kilometers (52 miles) per hour, the U.S. Navy said.

Associated Press - November 26, 2008 1:23 AM ET COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The Sri Lankan government says its forces are on the outskirts of the Tamil Tiger stronghold of Kilinochchi after days…