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Air Force spokesperson, Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara, speaking to defence.lk said that the air bombardment carried out observing an LTTE's gathering 7 Km north-west of Omanthai around 6.30 a.m. The Sri ...

WANNI & NORTH: AS THE LTTE terrorists' controlled areas in WANNI are rapidly and steadily shrinking in size, the military march on Tuesday ascended further upward with the destruction of more and more enemy ...

SRI LANKA-Two civilians were killed in Kuchchavali in Trincomalee,police said.Unidentified shooter who killed these people while they gone to the wood cutting police said.

SRI LANKA-Sri Lanka's president Maninda Rajapaksha has pledged to push ahead with a military onslaught against Tamil Tigers,reported by AFP news. President Mahinda Rajapakse vowed that security forces would pursue their current offensive in the island's north and capture Kilinochchi, the political capital of the Tamil separatists. The Sri Lankan government denied the rebel claims and said the authorities were providing food and shelter to displaced civilians living in areas still under rebel control. More than 112,000 people have been displaced in the past two months amid heavy fighting, aid agencies said last week.more-AFP

This is my last Olympics-Susanthika SRI LANAKA-Sri Lanka 200 m woman runner Susanthika Jayasinhe has missed qualified to the 200m last night in Beijing Olympics and Sri Lanka lasted last Olympics hope. ''I try mu best but i couldn't win my time.This is my last Olympics game.''Susanthika said to the media after her event .

Minister Duminda Dissanayake's personal assistant was shot SRI LANKA-All PC propaganda campaigns for the August 23 polls for the Sabaragamuwa and North Central provincial councils ended yesterday, more incidents of election-related violence , including shootings, have been reported mainly from the Anuradhapura district which turned into battle field. UPFA UNP and JVP supporters clashed and more persons were injured, one of them very seriously. Vehicles in which the UPFA candidates came were also damaged very badly, according to reports. They have been warded in the Anuradhapura hospital. The condition of one is serious. In another incident Minister Duminda Dissanayake's personal assistant was shot at in Eppawela and has been warded in the Anuradhapura .pix-Dinamina

Some G.C.E. Advanced Level centres have been shifted due to fighting on the Kilinochchi front.

While the 15th SAARC Summit successfully completed in Colombo, the first ever South Asia Economic Summit picks up at the BMICH from 28th to 30th August and it will be held parallel to the SAARC Trade Fair 2008 ...

A married woman of Tanamalgodawatta in Deiyyandara who had been toiling in a paddy field with her husband had been attacked and badly cut with a sharp knife by a group of people who had come there with guns.

The Canadian Red Cross Society will spend 400 million Rupees to upgrade Polonnaruwa General Hospital to a three story hospital with the most modern facilities, A Red Cross website has announced.

The Government is committed to assisting civilians who may be displaced by the ongoing counter LTTE military operations in the North and reiterates its firm commitment to continue providing humanitarian ...

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels Tuesday tacitly admitted they were losing ground in the face of a major military offensive by warning that thousands of civilians in the north were at risk.

COLOMBO: LTTE personnel and territorial losses are accelerating because the LTTE can no longer maintain a 'front line' of bunkers, the respected military website Strategy Page said yesterday.

THE SRI LANKA ARMY, honouring the commitments given to public authorities in Jaffna, has released a total of 103 acres of cultivable paddy-fields under the High Security Zone in the eastern Ariyalai area ...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 4:47 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Aug 19, Colombo: A top secret report released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Monday says that the Toronto based non-profit group, ...

August 18, 2008: So far this year, the LTTE has lost nearly 6,000 dead, while the army has lost nearly 600 soldiers.

SRI LANKA-Colombo Additional Magistrate ordered today (18) IGP to arrest Minister Mervyn Silva and 3 others immediately in connection with the Sirasa incident.

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SRI LANKA-Sri Lanka Army overruns key LTTE Base including more than 100 bunkers captured in South of Mullaithiv the military media said.

SRI LANKA-A 14-year-old girl died and 45 devotees were hospitalized after food poisoning during a religious festival in Uva Paranagama this morning.