Surrendered cadres assist army in zeroing in on remaining cells of guerilla resistance
Now that the Eelam War IV is over and the LTTE and its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran no more, government troops are conducting operations to eliminate surviving LTTE cells that are still operative in certain parts of the country.
With the help of LTTE cadres [...]
Security personnel defused a homemade bomb found on an aircraft during a domestic flight in Iran late on Saturday, Iranian media said, two days after a mosque bombing killed 25 people in the country’s southeast.
The device was defused after the Tehran-bound Kish Air aircraft with 131 passengers on board made an emergency landing in the [...]
MASS mobile e-mailing will be the next big thing to hit the country after short message service (SMS) or texting, according to Nokia Philippines.
At a recent press briefing, Nokia Philippines general manager William Hamilton Whyte said nearly half of emerging-market customers would rather connect to the Internet over a mobile phone than a personal computer. [...]
Sri Lanka has dismissed calls for an independent inquiry into claims of human rights abuses by the military, saying its own courts will investigate.
Foreign minister Rohita Bogollagama said the claims that heavy weaponry was used in civilian areas during the war with Tamil rebels were “fictional”.
He said the claims were being used to boost accusations [...]
In what may be the largest civil judgment ever against the Cuban government, a Miami-Dade judge on Friday awarded more than $1 billion to a Homestead man who blamed Fidel Castro and Ernesto ”Che” Guevara for driving his father to suicide in 1959.
”What the defendants did was torture this family and tear it apart,” said [...]
The world will probably never find out how many innocent civilians died during the bloody final phase of Sri Lanka’s war against amil Tigers rebels, the UN humanitarian chief said on Friday.
The United Nations believes that anywhere from 80,000 to 100,000 people died in what was one of Asia’s longest modern wars, erupting in earnest in [...]
Police question 83-year-old after body found in London home
An elderly woman has been questioned by police after allegedly keeping her mother’s body in a freezer for up to two decades, it emerged today. Police found the body wrapped in a black bin liner in a chest freezer at a semi-detached house in Sidcup, south-east London.
Officers [...]
Despite the lack of latest high-tech super vessels the Sri Lanka Navy according to its Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda has gone on record asserting that the SLN succeeded in effectively combating the LTTE without destroyers and combat ships that are used by many developed countries at sea battles.
The Commander said the newest vessel owned by [...]
Sri Lanka appealed for support in dismantling the Tamil Tigers’ international support network after declaring victory over the rebels following the decades-long conflict.
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told a high-level security forum in Singapore that the global organisation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remained “largely intact.”
“Many of the operatives have clearly cultivated powerful, [...]
Lasith Malinga is such an integral part of Sri Lanka’s fast bowling arsenal that it needed the nation’s president to intervene and ensure he was fit for the World Twenty20s in England.
The bowler with the rare sling-arm action, whose toe-crushing yorkers have tested the world’s finest batsmen, sat out the entire 2008 and early 2009 [...]
A Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) eastern leader surrendered on Saturday, defense officials here said Sunday.
The rebel cadre named Shankar had given leadership to the terrorist activities centering the eastern port district of Trincomalee.
He surrendered to the police at Kallar area.
With the military’s crushing of the senior rebel leadership trapped in the northeastern Mullaithivu [...]
Darchiga Kuken was sheltering in a bunker in the Mullaitivu area when a group of about 20 Tamil Tiger soldiers arrived and demanded that she went with them.
“I was sick with chicken pox. My mother and father were screaming and crying, saying that I was sick and pleading with them not to take me,” she [...]
They used to be a joke, the preserve of drag queens and ageing dolly-birds who’d never quite got over the Sixties, but right now, false eyelashes are enjoying a renaissance. At first, it was a stealthy return; make-up artists sneaked the odd clump of them in among celebrity lashes, and the names of women who [...]
A last minute bid by the EU to scuttle an agreement between Sri Lanka and the powerful grouping at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva by proposing amendments to an already modified resolution moved by Sri Lanka has helped Colombo to widen its margin in a historic diplomatic victory.
Foreign Ministry sources said that before [...]
