News Archive (2008 - January)

(Lanka-e-News, 2007 Jan. 31, 4.15 PM) An LTTE suicide bomber has exploded himself at Thirunaweli in Jaffna this morning, January 31. According to the Media Centre for National Security the suicide bomber had arrived at....

(Lanka-E-News, Jan. 31, 2008, 11.40 AM) The Secretary of Japanese graduate's alumini Association of Sri Lanka (JAGAAS) has sent us this clarification to the news item in our website on 21.01.2008 under the head line "Is President's Defence Advisor selling Strategic Information to Foreigners?"...

(Lanka-e-News, 2008 Jan 31 11.45 AM) Army Media Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara says that the LTTE is providing a two-week compulsory military training to the school students in the unsafe areas. He said that the number of people fleeing....

(Lanka-e-News, 2008 Jan 31 11.45 AM) Two persons armed with revolvers intruded the Kollupitiya house of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) worker Dulip Dushyantha Tuesday night (29) around 9 PM threatened to kill him...

(Lanka-e-News-2008Jan.30,11.45PM) The Kerala government on Tuesday said that it was verifying reports that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief Parabhakarn's wife had taken shelter in the state, following the escalation of fighting between Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan Army in the Sri Lanka...

(Lanka-e-News-2008Jan30, 11.00PM) Sri Lankan fighter jets today pounded a "field headquarters" of the LTTE and destroyed at least 35 LTTE bunkers in the island's embattled north as security forces gunned down 64 LTTEs and lost three of their soldiers in ground clashes in the restive region. The Air Force bombed the field headquarters of the LTTE at Weddukadu in the LTTE-held Mulaitivu district this morning, the Defence Ministry said....

(Lanka-e-News-2008Jan30, 6.40PM) 27th January 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) is appalled to learn that the brother of the Sri Lankan President and Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksha has openly stated that media has to be censored and criminal defamation brought back....

(lanka-e-News-2008Jan30, 5.55PM) Head of the LTTE Political Wing, B Nadesan, today wrote to the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, calling his attention to the massacre yesterday of eighteen Tamils including twelve children travelling in a bus....

(Lanka-e-News-2008Jan30, 5.00PM) LTTE blamed troops for a roadside bomb that killed 18 people, most of them children, on a school bus on Tuesday, but a military spokesman denied the accusation....

(Lanka-e-News-2008Jan30, 2.55 PM) Reporters Without Borders appealed today to President Mahinda Rajapakse to rein in various government ministers whose inflammatory comments and incitements to violence have serious threatened the safety of dozens of Sri Lankan journalists...