News Archive (2007 - November)

(Lanka-e-News-2007Nov30, 7.00pm) A senior Congress leader in Tamil Nadu on today alleged that LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabakaran could be responsible for the recent killing of the outfit's political wing leader S.P. Tamilselvan in a Sri Lankan Air Force raid...

(Lanka-e-News, November 30, 6.30 PM) Lanka-e-News learns that MP and World Cup winner former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranathunga is likely to be appointed as the Chairman of the Cricket Interim Board....

(Lanka-e-News -2007 Nov. 30, 5.00 PM) This letter proves that paying tribute to the war heroes has turned to a lucrative business in the hands of the higher officials of the President's office and the advertizing agencies.

(Lanka-e-News -2007 Nov. 30, 5.00 PM) Media spokesman on National Security Minister Keheliya Rambukwella says that the President Mahinda Rajapakse is the only leader who was not caught in the tactics of Prabakaran. He said that Prabakaran had to make his Maveerar speech as a destitute due to the path...

(LeN, 2007 Nov. 30, 5.30 PM) Police has identified the suicide bomber who attempted to kill Minister Douglas Devananda as Megamanan Sugantha based on the information on her national identity card found from the scene of explosion....

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 6.45 PM) New Left Front leader Dr. Wickramabahu Karunarathna says that the savagery initiated by New Bandaranaike who is wearing a blood soaked shawl round his neck is backfiring...

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 6.00 PM) The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Minister of Posts and Telecommunicatio Rauf Hakeem says that the VAT fraud calculated as Rs. 3.6 billion by the Auditor General can be double that amount. Addressing a press briefing held at the parliamentary complex today...

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 6.00 PM) Ealam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) leader Douglas Devananda says that he cannot be eliminated by the LTTE terrorism that does not heed the lives of people....

(LeN-2007Nov. 29, 6.00PM) Amnesty International today condemns the indiscriminate killing of at least 17 civilians and the wounding of more than 30 civilians by two suicide bombers believed to be members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)....

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 6.00 PM -2nd Edition-) A worker of the Nolimit shop of Nugegoda said to Lanka-e-News that officials of Mirihana Police did not arrive in the scene yesterday although they informed them about a suspicious parcel in the shop's baggage counter half an hour earlier to the explosion....