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  • Eastern Revival Precursor to Northern Liberation - President

    PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA urged the international community to understand the reality and the motive of the Government's humanitarian operations to liberate the North, in cognisance of the 'Eastern Renaissance' enjoyed by the Eastern polity now.
  • Ceasefires Gave LTTE Respite To Re-Group, Re-Arm - Prime Minister

    WHATEVER INTERPRETATIONS are given by certain sections of the media and various individuals to the struggle launched by LTTE terrorists for more than three decades to carve out a potion of the country for themselves, the Government is not prepared to enter a ceasefire agreement with Prabhakaran, said Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka.
  • Sri Lanka\'s first UN course on TCC successfully ends

    Sri Lanka\'s first-ever international seminar for Military Officers from Troop Contributing Countries (TCCs), organized by United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Oiperations (UNDPKO), closed its sessions on Wednesday (16) after successfully covering a wide spectrum of related subjects.
  • Caltex Cup championship Rugby tournament

    The remarkable and spectacular performance of the Army Sports Club, in the Caltex inter-club A division league Rugby tournament played at Galle Face ground on Sunday (13), staged a comeback beating Havelocks SC by 33 points to 25.
  • LTTE Bunker Line &; Vehicle Park Pounded

    MULLAITHIVU: AN LTTE bunker line and a vehicle park located about 3.5 km south of THUNUKKAI in MULLAITHIVU were pounded by the fighter jets of Sri Lanka Air Force morning (12) around 7.00 a.m..
  • University Don Enlightens Soldiers on Psychology

    THE EIGHTH of a series of lectures on “psychological persuasions and compulsions” for Officers and Other Ranks serving in Jaffna was conducted recently at the Security Force Headquarters Jaffna (SFHQ-J) between 7-10 July 2008.
  • Mother &; Son Among Dead in Bus Attack

    MONERAGALA: A TWELVE-YEAR old child and two women died and at least twenty-six passengers sustained injuries in Friday (11) morning terrorist fire on KATARAGAMA bound bus when it was passing GALGE jungle patch, near 149th Mile Post.
  • New IGP Calls on Army Commander

    NEWLY APPOINTED thirty-first Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Sri Lanka Jayantha Wickramarathna this morning (11) paid a courtesy call on Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka at the Army Headquarters upon his assumption of duties.