Suicide bomber explodes, kills 4 civilians.

Suicide bomber explodes, kills 4 civilians. Colombo-A suicide bomber who was traveling on a bike exploded himself at a densely populated civilian area today (31 January) at 11.20 am. The incident took place at a crowded market place located along the Thrirunaweli- Kalliyankadu road, general area Thirunaweli in Jaffna, defence sources said. Four civilians were killed and...

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CID summons 21 SLRC employees

CID summons 21 SLRC employees MEDIA-The CID has asked 21 employees of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation to report to the CID with immediate effect. The employees have decided to disobey the orders and have instead decided to write to the CID asking why they have been summoned. Daily mirror...

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Sri Lanka -Another SLR C media men Under threat

Another SLR C media men Under threat MEDIA-Dulip Ranasinhe Sri lanka Rupawahini Cooperation, complained to the police,he has under threat.Unidentified gang come to his resident last night with arms,and threated to the journalist's family members he sa...

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Defence spokesman denies

defence spokesman denies army involvement in Madhu bomb blast Colombo-Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, the government Defence Spokesman today said that it is baseless to accuse security forces over the recent bomb blast in Periya Madhu, since army would not operate in a no-war-zone.-www.defence...

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Child soldiers:

UN urges sanctions on terror groups UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Security Council in a report issued yesterday to impose sanctions on armies and groups that make use of child soldiers in at least a dozen countries.- Daily News...

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blasst LTTEcamp

LTTE Field Headquarter DestroyedColombo-Air Force pounded air strikes using fighter jet planes on the field headquarters of the LTTE at WEDDUKADU 2 km off the FDL today (30) around 8.20 a.m. Pilots confirm that the mission was successful said Army media unite to d...

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Ravaya-journalist under threat.

Threat to Lassantha Ravaya News paper.Colombo-The RAVAYA news paper of sri lanka ,journalist Lassantha Ruhunage has threated by tugs reported sri lanka media.Ravaya news paper investigated political corruption and social issues.Lasantha exposes JVP MP Sunil Handunneththi case in his Ravaya news paper last week.this is the 3rd case in one we...

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Security forces gain control of Muhamale

Security forces gain control of Muhamale Colombo-Security forces gain control of Muhamale and Nagarkovil forward defenseline said Army media uni...

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ten bunkers destroyed

ten bunkers destroyed Colombo-Army captured Viyattankulam in Mannar and ten terrorists were killed and ten bunkers destroyed in the confrontation today (29) morning said center for national securi...

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Senior editor of Tamil newspaper stabbed in Sri Lanka

Senior editor of Tamil newspaper stabbed in Sri LankaThe associate editor of a state-run Tamil language newspaper, The Thinakaran, was stabbed and injured in Sri Lanka's capital late Monday, police said.T. Mohamed Suhaib was dragged from his home at Maligawatte in Colombo by five unidentified men and stabbed, causing serious injury. He was operated upon at the national hospital.Police said the motive of the attack was not known immediately, but he...

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Fly back Air Force -Brig,Udaya Nanayakkara

Fly back Air Force -Brig,Udaya NanayakkaraColombo-The Security Forces beat back LTTE artillery fire directed towards the Palali area while Air Force fighter jets pounded LTTE artillery positions located in Kalmunai point, north of Pooneryn yesterday,Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara sa...

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Development-Sri Lanka

Massive development - North and East Colombo- The Government yesterday announced a massive development plan under the Reawakening programme to restore livelihoods through new agriculture and irrigation projects aimed at a sustainable social and economic integration of the community in the Northern and Eastern Provinces- Daily n...

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Kruna jailed.

Kruna jailed. A renegade former commander of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels has been jailed for identity fraud in the UK. The BBC's Jill McGivering watched Col Karuna's sentencing and asked human rights groups for their reaction. source-...

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Sri Lanka -Attack TV journalist

Attack Sri lanka Rupawahini journalist.The Sri Lanka TV journalist Anuhas Mawalage were attack last Night while he is going his resident.Unknow tugs used knife to attack to him.Mawalage admited to the Genaral Hospita Colombo,and operate his arms said hospital athori...

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Sixteen bodies have been found

Bodies found in Sri Lanka forest-BBCSri Lanka-Sixteen bodies have been found at a remote jungle location in government-controlled territory in Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura district.One of the bodies was female, the rest male. Some were found with their hands bound behind their backs.They were discovered in a decomposed state, in two separate grave sites.Military spokesman Brig...

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Tamil Nadu Police tracking 50 more Tigers

Tamil Nadu Police tracking 50 more TigersINDIA-POLICE in Tamil Nadu have track down more than 50 hardcore LTTE cadres from the North.reported international med...

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Unidentified bodies found in Kebithigollawa

Who Are they?Some unidentified bodies( At least 16 bodies )were recovered at Hijrapura on the Horoupathana - Kebithigollawa road yesterday evening. Police and magisterial inquires are underw...

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LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.

LTTE rejects Air Force claim Colombo-The LTTE rejected the military’s claim that air raids of the SLAF ‘had hit a location of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’. “Colombo was spreading false propaganda as they done during the Tsunami catastrophe and on many occasions earlier,” pro-LTTE Tamilnet website said quoting LTTE Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan.Rported-Daily mir...

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Sri lankan market.

Economy-Rice gazetted as essential commodityColombo-The Government has decided to gazette rice as a essential commodity. Trade, Marketing Development, Co-operatives and Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunawardana said to the media rice has gazetted as an essential commodity under Section 18 of the Consumer Affairs Authority a...

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APRC proposals-Sri Lanka

APRC proposals ready. Colombo-President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday appealed to all political parties to join hands to solve the national question within a common agenda sans their private agendas and party differences, thinking of their Motherland and the common masses.Daily News -pix-Sudath Si...

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Air Force raids "X-ray base"

Air attack to the "X-ray base"Sri Lanka air force fighter jets have raided the terror hub in Kilinochchi, known as "X-ray base" around 11.15, this morning (January 23). Air Force fighter jets in a low flying mission have targeted the base located East of Iranamadu Tank in the Kalmadukulama area, with the pin point accuracy, air force sources said.According to Air Force Spokesperson...

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President Rajapaksa withdraw ....

I don't believe in a military solution.President Rajapaksa.Sri Lanka-Sri Lanka's president Tuesday signalled a shift in the war against the Tamil Tigers, saying he does not believe that the decades-old conflict can be solved through military means. President Mahinda Rajapakse defended his decision to withdraw from a tattered 2002 truce with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

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Security tightened after Troops

terrorists attack hiding in near by jungles at around 12.30p.m.THANAMALWILA-22-01-2008: Troops conducting search operations today (22) in SIRINANDAPURA area were fired upon by terrorists hiding in near by jungles at around 12.30p.m.Two troops who sustained minor injuries in this incident were sent to the THANAMALWILA hospital where one was admitted for treatment and the other was released after treatment reported MCNS....

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Sri Lanka Gover:APRC proposals

Sr LankaGovernment is committed to implement APRCThe Government is committed to implement the political proposals that will be submitted by the All Party Representative Committee as soon as possible, President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared yesterd...

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Treee Policemen Killed

Three Policemen Killed in Tanamalwila.MONARAGALA: (21) at around 7.45 p.m, in TANAMALWILLA, KITHULKOTE, ALIMANKADA area a fierce fire fight broke out between Police and a group of LTTE terrorists hiding near by, in which three policemen were killed in action said MCNS Sri Lanka. search operations are continuing, police said....

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India released three fishing vessels

India released three Sri Lankan fishing vessels.Chennai, 21 January- The Government of India yesterday, released three Sri Lankan fishing vessels which were apprehended in 2006 and 2007 by the India authorities on allegations of entering Indian territorial waters illegally and for poaching, reported Asian Tribune.Two Sri Lanka fishing vessel Pramoda Putha I and Pramoda Putha II were apprehended by Indian authorities on 10th August 2006, with ten...

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Attack to the Journalist -Tanamlwial

Attacked SIRASA TV Correspondent.The Sirasa TV Tanamalwila Correspondent Mr. Bandara were attacked by area political tugs in Tanamalwila Town last 19th on satarday, said Sirasa News. The reporter complained to the police.Suspects no arrested....

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LTTE area leader killed

CHENGAN was shot and dead.Sri Lanka-The LTTE area leader of THENMARACHCHI, CHENGAN was shot and killed by Army troops today (20) around 4.30 p.m. at KAITHADI North, JAFFNA in retaliatory fire when troops conducting a search operation were attacked. Consequently, following arms and military equipment were recovered said MCNS Sri Lan...

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Red alert over Tigers in Tamil Nadu

US intelligence agency FBI listed Tigers A red alert has been sounded over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in India, particularly Tamil Nadu, following a warning from the Interpol, days after US intelligence agency FBI listed the Tigers as the most “dangerous outfit and deadly extremist group in the world”. -Daily N...

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LTTE terrorists attacked civilians

LTTE terrorists attacked civilians in remote village -ThanamalwilaA group of LTTE terrorists attacked civilians at Kalawalgala, a remote village in the Thanamalwila area around 10, last night (Jan 17). According to defence sources, three civilians were killed and three others including one home guard sustained injuries in the attack. The injured are being treated at Hambanthota...

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UN, EU condemn LTTE attack.

UN, EU condemn LTTE attacksUN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and EU Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner have strongly condemned the indiscriminate attacks by the LTTE."These latest deadly attacks coincide with the expiration today of the ceasefire agreement. The Secretary-General reiterates his firm belief that the only...

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LTTE suspects arrested in Delhi

LTTE suspects arrested.Three Sri Lankans, suspected to have links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and a Chennai man were arrested in Delhi, allegedly with forge travel documents, police said on Wednesday,repored Daily News, Sri Lanka....

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There is no direct support,"

"There is no direct support,"Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh MehtaReported by- The Time of India NEW DELHI: A day after Colombo praised the Indian Navy for its help in countering LTTE, India on Wednesday said it was just conducting "coordinated patrolling" with the Sri Lankan Navy along the IMBL (international maritime boundary line) as part of the move to bolster its...

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A bomb and shooting attack to the civilian bus.

It was clear the rebels were behind the assault Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara COLOMBO, — A bomb and shooting attack to the civilian bus Wednesday, increase 26 civilians dead in southeastern Sri Lanka. Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said it was clear the rebels were behind the assault, the latest in a string of attacks in government-held territory...

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The LTTE hits another blast.

BREAKING NEWSClaymore hit the Army vehicle.The LTTE has exploded another bomb in Butthala, hours after a claymore mine attack on a bus took the lives of 23 people killed and 67 injured. Bomb had targeted an Army vehicle traveling on the Buttala-Kataragama Road and 03 solders injuring said Bri Udaya Nanayakk...

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Sri Lanka blast kills 23

BREAKING NEWS-Claymore attack to the civilians bus,kills 23Sri Lanka-7.30.Road side bomb attack to civilian's bus on Buttala Niyadella road at around 7.30am said police media spokesman.23 civilians were killed and 74 injured,admitting Buthtala Hospital in this morning,said Brig Udaya Nanayakk...

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Sri Lanka-Claymore attack to the civilians bus

BREAKING NEWS-Claymore attack to the civilians bus Sri Lanka-7.30.Road side bomb attack to civilian's bus on Buttala Niyadella road at around 7.30am said police media spokesman.About 50 civilians were injured,admitting Buthtala Hospital in this morning said officer in Buthtala Hospit...

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End the ceasefire

End the ceasefire between Sri Lanka Gov and L.T.T.EThe ceasefire between Sri Lanka's government and the Tamil Tigers formally comes to an end on Wednesday TO DAY.The government gave notice two weeks ago it was pulling out of the agreement which was brokered by Norway in 20...

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Sri Lanka Ends Truce With Rebels,

Sri Lanka Ends Truce With Rebels, Sri Lanka formally ended its 2002 cease-fire with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, rejecting as inaccurate a United Nations statement that the conflict may intensify and threaten human rights.``The cease-fire ended quite some time ago when the LTTE unilaterally returned to full-scale hostilities in December 2005,'' Sri Lanka's mission to the UN in Geneva said in a statement yesterday, reported Paul Tighe...

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MoU signed between Iran and Sri Lanka.

MoU signed between Iran and Sri Lanka. A group of Iranian Ministers led by Iranian Economic and Finance Minister Dr.Davood Danesh Jafari called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa and held extensive discussions at Temple Trees yesterday.pix-Sudath Sil...

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Japanese Government continued tosupport

Japanese Government continued to supportJapanese Special Peace Envoy Yasushi Akashi said the Japanese Government continued to support Sri Lanka in view of achieving sustainable peace based on a political solution, contrary to speculation regarding foreign aid stoppage by Japan with the annulment of the Ceasefire Agreement Daily news report...

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LTTE most dangerous extremist outfit: FBI

Special Issue, from The Hindu:LTTE most dangerous extremist outfit: FBINew York (PTI): Describing the LTTE as the "most dangerous and deadly extremist" outfit in the world, the FBI has asked donors to be careful about charities established as front organisations by the rebel group to raise funds to finance its terrorist activities. The group, FBI said, has placed operatives...

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Sri Lanka Government rejects Tiger offer...

We will be going on with our liberation operations-government defence spokesmanColombo- Sri Lanka Government rejected a Tamil Tiger offer to abide by the terms of a newly-scrapped 6-year ceasefire, and vowed to push on with a military campaign to crush the rebels."While the CFA was on they attacked civilian targets, reuter reported.Keheliya Rambukwella, a minister and government...

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bombed LTTE sea base in Alampil in Nayaru

Bombed LTTE sea base in Alampil in Nayaru.Air Force fighter jets bombed LTTE sea base in Alampil in Nayaru around 8.45 am today,said the Media Centre for National securi...

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Sri Lanka has full voting HR-HR minister Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has full voting HR-HR minister Sri Lanka.Human Right minister Mahinda Samarasinhe, strongly denied the assertion as to Sri Lanka's alleged demotion in its status at the main global forum on HR-UN-Human Right Counc...

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India arrests seven Tiger suspects.

India arrests seven Tiger suspects Colombo-The 'Q'branch police in Tami Nadu have arrested seven LTTE sympahised,including Sri Lankaan refugee Sivakarishnan alias Nanthan,30 and K Murugapandi,27 ofPothampulinear Kamudhi. Daily News report...

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final draft for a political solution Sri Lanka

Government to go ahead with implementation of political solutionThe final draft for a political solution agreed upon by the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) is due to be handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on January 23....

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Clymore attacking minister D.M.Dassanayake

Clymore attacking minister D.M.Dassanayake Clymore attacking minister D.M.DassanayakeThe Clymore attack targeting Minister of Nation Building D.M..Dassanayake in Ja-Ala, to day mornning, at sri lanka time 9.45.A.M.Minister injered and five others said military media speaker Brig; Udaya Nanayakkara said to the med...

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Clymore attacking minister D.M.Dassanayake

Clymore attacking minister D.M.Dassanayake D.M.DassanayakeThe Clymore attack targeting Minister of Nation Building D.M..Dassanayake in Ja-Ala, to day mornning, at sri lanka time 9.45.A.M. Minister injered and five others said military media speaker Brig; Udaya Nanayakkara said to the med...

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JOURNALIST ATTACK

Denger situation, poddalaColombo-Secretary of Sri Lanka working Journalist Association (S.L.W.J.A) Poddala Jayantha,(Lake House) had trethen by thug gang, to day mornning in poddala's resident. They try to attack journalist.The thug gang had come by blue geap and van, Poddala said.This is very dengeros situation for free media in Sri Lanka, said Sunanda Desapriya(F.M.M) to...

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Govt decides to withdraw from CFA

Govt decides to withdraw from CFAThe Govt decides to withdraw from CFA yester day.CFA entered with the LTTE in 2002.The cabinet has approved submitted by PM Rathnasiri Wikkramanayake.The LTTE has committed a lage number of Ceasefire violations Defence Affairs Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said to the Sri Lanka news papers.*Peace talks 2002-2006- Thailand- 2002...

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SRI LANKA-Bus bomb blast.at Colombo

(colombo-9.43.am)Bomb blast targeted at the army bus near the Slave Island,police media said.23 people were injured this incident,and hospitalised.four people confirmed dead said milita...

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