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  • Woman's Coconut Turns into C-4 Explosives

    ANURADHAPURA: ONE MORE attempt to smuggle explosives for use of terrorist attacks was challenged at a roadblock nearby Cemetery Road, on HOROWPATHANA- VAVUNIYA main road when a woman carrying one kg of C-4 explosives, hidden inside a coconut was nabbed by the Police.
  • Troops Continue to Ensure Security for ICRC Officials

    VAVUNIYA: THE TEMPORARY pull-out of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) from its service at OMANTHAI Entry/Exit point in WANNI on Tuesday (1) was mainly due to threats posed by LTTE's indiscriminate heavy fire rounds that fall as near as the northern boundary of this cross-loading point on a regular basis and also because of intense retaliatory attacks of the Security Forces.
  • Men Trying to Grab Airman's Weapon Meet Their Fate

    TRINCOMALEE: TWO MEN trying to grab the T-56 weapon of an airman serving the Air Force roadblock in the general area of THAMBALAGAMUWA, KANTALE close upon midnight on Tuesday (1) were overpowered killing one on the spot.
  • 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.
  • Decomposed Tiger Dead Body Found in Lagoon

    MANNAR: THE DEAD BODY of a suspected Tiger cadre with his bag of four hand grenades, four T-56 magazines, one pouch and a cyanide capsule hung around his neck was taken out of the seas in PALLIMUNE lagoon in MANNAR on Monday (30) by naval troops.
  • LTTE Days Numbered: Army Commander

    SRI LANKA'S ARMY chief Sarath Fonseka said on Monday the LTTE had \"lost the capability to fight as a conventional force\" due to the relentless \"overall military strategy\" since August 2006.
  • 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.