Maoists kill 14 in India amid nationwide elections
Maoist rebels have killed at least 14 people in separate bomb attacks in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh as the country holds parliamentary elections.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan, calls on Minister Peiris
General Rashal Mahmood, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan, called on Professor G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, recently.
US denies MH370 landed at Diego Garcia military base in Indian Ocean, says report
The United States today has refuted rumours that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have landed at its military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia, the Daily Mirror reported.
Sri Lanka troops kill three men in search of rebels
Sri Lanka’s military on Friday shot dead three men during an operation against suspected Tamil separatist rebels, in the first major confrontation since the end of the island’s war nearly five years ago, a spokesman said.
Sri Lanka justifies troop presence in north
A day after three key operatives of the banned LTTE were killed in a major military operation in the northern areas, the Sri Lankan government on Saturday justified maintaining troops in the former war zones.
Bodies of slain LTTE leaders identified by relative
Relatives of three suspected LTTE operatives, who were shot dead by the military yesterday in Nedunkerni in Vavuniya, today identified the deceased at the Anuradhapura hospital, police said.
New Year: new opportunity for all Lankans to join together – Kerry
United States Secretary of State John Kerry issuing Sinhala and Tamil New Year’s message said that this New Year brings a new opportunity for all Sri Lankans to join together in the spirit of tolerance, reconciliation, and peace.
SL should honour commitments made in 2009: UN
The United Nations recalled the commitments made by the Sri Lankan Government in its joint statement with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in May 2009 and urged Sri Lanka to remain committed to its undertaking.
Bodu Bala Sena,Sihala Ravaya, and Ravana Balakaya are Saffron Robed Destroyers of Sinhala Buddhism
By C.A. Chandraprema Can there be a more loathsome sight on earth than that of rampaging Buddhist monks in saffron robes? The sight is made doubly loathsome, because a ‘rampaging monk’ is a contradiction in terms – something that cannot be. The Buddhist expectation is that a monk in particular will have at least an Read More
ATTEMPTED RESURGENCE OF THE LTTE AND THE INCIDENT IN THE JUNGLE OFF PADAVIYA ON 11 APRIL 2014
PRESS RELEASE An attempt for resurgence of terrorism in Sri Lanka surfaced in general area Pallai in the Jaffna Peninsula calling for launching another phase of the LTTE struggle for a separate state. The information on several key suspects who were leading the campaign for resurgence of the LTTE also surfaced. Investigators made several arrests Read More