Amidst mounting international pressure to suspend the war
against the LTTE, the UNP yesterday urged the government to maximize the
use of all armaments at its disposal to finish off what is left of the
group’s conventional military power.
UNP MP Palitha Ranga Bandara told The Island that there shouldn’t be any restrictions on the use of artillery...


*Swine flu threatens Lanka
Both thermal scanners out of order, no mandatory
checks
The GMOA yesterday said that both thermal
scanners installed at the Bandaranaike International Airport to check
passengers arriving in Sri Lanka as part the efforts to tackle the
spread of deadly swine flu weren’t operational.
‘Tamils, not Tigers, are
the issue’
The LTTE’s days as a military force seems over, but the Tamil community
needs to have a say in managing their own affairs if the decades old
ethnic...





The
headless chicken phenomenon
The event that took centre stage last week, was
the visit by the British Foreign..