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Wanni Operation video 31 st December 2008

Safety of depositors assured: “The purpose of this move was to ensure the stability of the Banking system of the country and to ensure the safety of depositors as Seylan Bank PLC presented a potential danger to the system,” a Central Bank source said. The Central Bank’s Monetary Board yesterday discontinued the services of the [...]

“Srilakvahini” Satellite Television Channel has commenced local transmission. This channel telecasts programmes 12 hours per day using Protosat (98.5 East) satellite while telecasting news, current affairs programmes, documentary and musical programmes it carries items for women and children, teledramas, films, live programmes four days a week. Details could be obtained by browsing www.srilakvahini.net website or [...]

27the Dec – Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets have carried out air strikes this morning (Dec 27) targeting two locations frequented by terrorist chief V. Prbhakaran. Air Force spokesperson Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara told defence.lk that the jets have targeted a hiding place of the terror chief located in thick jungle 1 km southeast [...]

24th Dec – Sri Lanka’s government troops have captured a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) airstrip, defense officials said Wednesday. The 200-meter-long and 20-meter-wide airstrip was located 15 km east of Mankulam, a town captured this week by the Army’s Task Force 3. This was the 3rd LTTE airstrip that has fallen under government [...]

28th Dec: LTTE terrorists have carried out a suicide bomb attack near the sacred St Ann’s church, Hekitta, Wattla in the north of Sri Lankan capital this morning (Dec 28). According to police sources, a male suicide bomber has exploded himself around 9 AM in front of the Civil Defence Force office on the church [...]

Mihin Lanka’s inaugural flight looks set to take off on January 1 (2009). A spate of operational issues caused the flight to Dubai to be postponed twice in December, airline sources said. The approval from the Indian Aviation Authority (IAA) had been received in writing after Mihin Lanka’s Chairman Raja Edirisuriya flew to India last [...]

59 Division troops have entered the Mulliawalai township along the A-34 Oddusudan- Mullaittivu main road claiming soaring LTTE casualties after hours of heavy fighting that broke-out between troops and LTTE in the tactically important battle terrain since last evening (Dec 25). According to latest reports received from the battlefield, 16 Sri Lanka Light Infantry (16SLLI) [...]

Action will be taken against petrol filling station owners who do not requisition sufficient stocks of petrol and create problems for motorists who come to purchase petrol, Chairman Ceylon Petroleum Corporation; Asoka Thoradeniya said yesterday (22). The CPC was supplying sufficient stocks of petrol to the filling stations to meet the demand of the motorists [...]

21st Dec: The leader of the Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal party (TMVP) and parliamentarian Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman has formed a new party named as Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Koddani (TMVK). According to the sources the new party was a clear result of the crisis between Karuna and Chief Minister Chandrakanthan (Pillayan) factions existed between [...]