Last Updated:14.05.2008

No more ceasefires with LTTE - PM  
       
Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickremanayake says the government has taken a firm decision that no more ceasefire agreements will be signed with the LTTE in the future. Speaking at a meeting of the ‘Virumau Surakimu’ organization, the Prime Minister said, 'on an earlier occasion, I said that Prabhakaran was on the verge of a death trap. Now I say that he is inside that death trap”.“The soldiers will decide his doomsday”, he added."Prabhakaran is in a large concrete bunker.Read More

Maheswari Velayutham shot dead in Jaffna

Unidentified gunmen shot dead Tuesday an advisor to a minority Tamil cabinet minister at her residence in northern Sri Lanka, police said. The advisor Maheshwari Velauthan, was at her residence in Karaveddi, Jaffna, Read More

Election Commissioner ready to provide information on election malpractices to courts

Election Commissioner Dayananda Dishanayaka said yesterday (13) to a group of United National Party (UNP) representatives that he was ready to report the details he had on election malpractices to courts if the UNP would take legal action against the election. He made this statement when UNP General Secretary Thissa Aththanayaka, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauf Hakeem, MPs Ravi Karunanayaka and John Amarathunga met the Election Commissioner yesterday.Read More

LSSP wants East PC given all powers under 13th Amendment       
  
Government-affiliate Lanka Sama Samaja Party has called for granting all powers under the 13th Constitutional Amendment to the Eastern Provincial Council.Secretary of the LSSP Wimalasiri de Mel saysRead More

Patil expresses concern over LTTE’s ‘air capability’

NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil has expressed concern over the reported air capability of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that could be a threat to the vital installations in South India. Stressing the need to synergise the efforts of all key partners for a safer and more efficient functioning of the installations in various sectors, he said the government would take all steps to protect the atomic energy installations and ports. Inaugurating a “Security of Installations in Key Sectors”Read More

Nedumaran arrested
 
THOOTHUKUDI: Pazha Nedumaran, leader of Tamil Nationalist Movement (TMM), and 350 party workers were arrested for organising a protest in front of the Collectorate here on MondayRead More

UNP to submit fresh motions on MiG and Tiger deals

The UNP is to submit fresh motions calling for the appointment of Parliamentary Select Committees to probe the MiG deal and the pre presidential election secret pact with the LTTE when parliament is reconvened on June 5.The select committee motions submitted by the opposition on the MiG deal and the secret pact with the LTTE lapsed with the proroguing of parliament by the President last week.Read More

Air Force bombs Tiger training center in Northern Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets bombed a key LTTE training facility at Kollanvillu in Kilinochchi this morning, the military said. According to the Air Force sources, Read More

Sri Lanka's Marxist Party office in Eastern capital ransacked

Political office of Sri Lanka's Marxist party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) at Palamunai in Batticaloa has been ransacked by a group of thugs yesterday morning. Few motorbikes and the office equipment were damaged but no one has suffered injuries in the incident, police sources said. The office is situated adjacent to a residence of a JVP candidate for the recent provincial council election. According to the police, the group has come around 2.30 amRead More

Three ministers back a Tamil CM

Three government ministers have spoken in favour of the appointment of a Tamil as the chief minister of the Eastern Provincial Council.Minister S. M. Chandrasena spoke in favour of a Tamil appointee Read More

Muslim ministers to resign if Pillayan appointed CM

All Muslim ministers in government have decided to resign their portfolios if newly elected provincial Councilor M.L.M. Hizbullah is not appointed chief minister of the Eastern Province, The Morning Leader learns.Informed sources said several Muslim ministers in government including those who broke away from the Muslim Congress met yesterday at Resettlement Minister Rishard Bathiudeen's Ministry and arrived at this decision. The Morning Leader learns the decision of the Muslim ministers will be communicatedRead More

Good response to Army general amnesty

A large number of Army deserters have reported back to service making use of the general amnesty granted upto May 16 midnight, the Army Headquarters said yesterday. Read More

Wimal’s party to join UPFA

The newly formed National Freedom Front (NFF) by the dissident JVP propaganda secretary Wimal Weerawansa will join the UPFA to contest future elections, The Morning Leader learns.Informed sources told The Morning Leader that the party Weerawansa has formed together with former JVP politburo member and defector Nandana Gunathileka would after a period of campaigning become a constituent member of the UPFA.The source further said that the NFF would be an extremist party that would address the Sinhala majority of the country.Read More