


The National Police Commission has declined to interfere with a major dispute in the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption over the transfer of two Inspectors investigating undeclared assets of a prominent politician by the IGP. The NPC yesterday said that it wouldn’t interfere with IGP Jayantha Wickremaratne’s right to transfer police officers of the rank of Inspector and below.
Army steps up pressure on northern front
Deputy British HC briefed on Vanni situ
With the LTTE retreating on the Vanni front, the Colombo
based diplomatic community is keen to re-evaluate the ground situation
amid reports of rapid depletion of LTTE units resisting the...

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and SLAF Chief Air Marshal Roshan Goonetileke visit China Bay air base over the weekend. The SLAF is in the process of rapidly developing the base to enhance its role in the action against the LTTE. The development of the base would ease pressure on the strategic Katunayake airbase, the nerve centre of the ongoing air campaign which is of critical importance to the overall effort to defeat the LTTE.

Interim Council not STF
needed for Jaffna – TULF tells India
The TULF has informed India that it opposes the
presence in Jaffna, of a Special Task Force (STF) headed by Minister
Douglas Devananda, informed sources said.




