President Mahinda Rajapaksa convened an urgent meeting concerning the food supplies to the civilians trapped in the North. On the President’s immediate directive, more than 40 tons of urgently required food items will be shipped tonight to the civilians trapped in Mullaitivu, said Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister of Resettlement & Disaster Relief Services. He further said [...]
The Associated Press in a notice sent to all its client publications requested to kill the Sri Lanka war story that said 300 civilians have been killed and 1000 other civilians have been injured after realizing that they have been subjected to a hoax. In the notice the Associated Press said, “Kill the Sri Lanka-Civil [...]
Troops of 57 Division on multi-pronged offensive towards LTTE’s main administrative base, Kilinochchi built-up, have reached to a significant milestone gaining control over the strategically vital Terumurikandy junction last evening, 10 December. According to the defence sources in battlefront, military formations attached to 57 Division advanced from north of Kokavil and east of Akkarayankulam gained [...]
Troops of the 59 Division, now consolidating positions North of Kumulamunai in the Mullaittivu battlefront today (Nov 26), have engaged with a group of terrorists in a fierce confrontation and have reportedly uncovered 5 slain bodies, Wanni security sources said. According to Wanni military sources, terrorists have suffered serious damages in the fighting which lasted [...]
4 LTTE attack crafts were destroyed, 14 terrorists killed and as many others reported injured in a fierce sea battle that irrupted between naval craft and sea tigers off Nagar-Kovil in the northern waters, today (November 1) at around 05.45 a.m. According to the latest reports received, 16 terrorists were wounded in the fighting. In [...]
Kelanitissa loses capacity to generate 275 mega watts: Tuesday’s failure to shoot down a single LTTE aircraft despite timely detection by radar has jolted the SLAF into investigating its limitations amidst evidence that the enemy has acquired a capability to neutralise the threat of a heat seeking missile attack. An authoritative source said that Chinese [...]
The Kilinochchi battlefront has been intensely active since this morning (Oct 18) as troops of 57 Division have cleared the LTTE built earth bund from both east and the west of Akkarayankulam tank, battlefield sources said. According to the sources, troops have run at the LTTE defence kept along the earth bund and entered into [...]
Two persons, including the female suicide bomber, died while five others were injured in the attack in Boralesgamuwa this morning, Kalubowila hospital sources said. The deceased, a surveyor, happens to be the uncle of a doctor at the hospital who was attending to the injured, sources added.
Death toll of the LTTE suicide attack was raised to 27 as one of the victims suffered critical injuries succumbed to his injuries while being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Anuradhapura teaching hospital yesterday, 06 October. The Director of the Anuradhapura teaching hospital, Dr Sarath Weerabandara, speaking to defence.lk said that 4 [...]
The opposition leader of the North-Central provincial council, Maj General Janaka Perera (Retd) and many others were killed when an LTTE suicide cadre blew himself inside the United National Party (UNP) office near the Old Bus Stand in Anuradhapura this morning
