Tag: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka activates mass detention centre amid arrests
Jan 12, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka has reactivated a mass detention centre to hold people rounded up during recent arrests of suspects allegedly linked to terrorism, police said Friday. A first batch of 60 people detained at police stations in Colombo will be sent Friday to the centre in Boossa, around 100 kilometres (60 […]
‘s top diplomat
Jan 12, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Friday appointed a former United Nations official as the country’s top official to lead the ministry of foreign affairs. Palitha Kohona, 58, currently the head of the government’s office coordinating with peace broker Norway, was appointed Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with […]
Flash floods kill 14 in Sri Lanka
Jan 12, 2007 (AFP) – At least 14 people were killed and another 61,000 made homeless in south and central Sri Lanka Friday in flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rains, relief officials said. The National Disaster Management Centre said two people were buried alive in a mudslide at Walapane while another was killed in […]
‘s human rights: report
NEW DELHI, Jan 12, 2007 (AFP) – War-torn Sri Lanka and politically unstable Bangladesh suffered worsening human rights violations in 2006 while other parts of the subcontinent saw scant progress, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.In its annual report, the New York-based watchdog said Bangladesh’s “already poor human rights record worsened, as security forces continued to […]
Commandos take eight Tiger bases in Sri Lanka
Jan 12, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan commandos have taken at least eight bases used by Tamil Tiger guerrillas to launch attacks in the country’s east following an operation lasting several days, military officials said Friday. The elite Special Task Force commandos took the eighth base in the district of Ampara early Friday after a […]
Sri Lanka counts on US$1.5 bn aid from foreign donors this year
January 12, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka hopes to secure over a billion dollars in aid pledges when foreign donors meet later this month to discuss the island’s economic health, and attempts to resolve the ethnic conflict, a senior official said Friday. The Indian Ocean Island secured 1.1 billion dollars in foreign aid last year, […]
Sri Lanka troops take Tiger base after killing four
COLOMBO, Jan 11, 2007 (AFP) – Elite police commandos captured a key Tamil Tiger base Thursday after killing four guerrillas in a confrontation in eastern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.Sri Lanka troops take Tiger base after killing four The police Special Task Force commandos took the base known as “Janaka” in the district of […]
Indonesia extradites Sri Lankan wanted in US for arms smuggling
JAKARTA, Jan 10, 2007 (AFP) – Indonesia on Wednesday deported to the United States a Sri Lankan wanted by US police for smuggling military equipment to Tamil Tiger rebels, police said.“Sri Lankan national Pratheepan Thavarajah, was today (Wednesday) extradited to the United States through the Sukarno-Hatta international airport,” a national police spokesman, Bambang Kuncoko, said. […]
Sixteen killed in rival Tamil rebel clash in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Jan 10, 2007 (AFP) – At least 16 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in clashes with security forces and rival rebels in Sri Lanka’s embattled eastern province, the defence ministry said Wednesday.At least 10 members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were killed and another 25 wounded when troops retaliated against a […]
Sri Lanka exports recover in November
January 10, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka earned more from exports in November pushing cumulative export growth for the year to 8 percent from 6.5 percent in October, the Central Bank said. Exports rocketed up by 24.3 percent to 623 million dollar in November 2006 compared with the same month of the previous year. In […]
Sri Lanka gets French aid for satellite mapping of tsunami hit areas
Jan 10, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Urban Development Authority has sought nearly 85 million dollars in French aid for a town planning system in tsunami hit areas. The loan, which will set up a Spatial Information System to capture, analyse and display geographical information, was signed on Wednesday, the finance ministry said in a […]
‘s Official
January 9, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of Fortune 500 Indian Oil Corp. has laid the foundation stone on its upcoming lubricant blending plant over weekend, after the Sri Lankan government settle settled 5.16 billion rupees in unpaid subsidy bills last Friday, officials said. Lanka IOC is 75 percent-owned by Indian Oil Corp., […]