One person killed in Gothatuwa shooting

Pakistan terrorist heading to Lanka arrested

A man, allegedly having links with a Pakistan terrorist outfit was taken into custody by the ‘Q’ branch of Trichy on Monday. Police said A Tamim Ansari (38) was nabbed at Trichy’s Tollgate junction as he was on his way to board a flight to Sri Lanka with a number of secret Indian naval documents and graphics loaded into compact discs. Sources said they had advance information that a person with close links with a Pakistani terrorist organisation was planning to pass on certain vital information

18 Sep, 2012

Army insists war was not against Tamils

The Army has told a visiting UN human rights delegation that the war was not against the Tamils but the LTTE. Jaffna Security Forces Commande?Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe told the delegation from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that the number of troops present in Jaffna is less as compared to some districts in the island. The?delegation?headed by Hanny Megally, Chief Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa Branch of the UN Human Rights office met the Jaffna Comm

18 Sep, 2012

Lanka is no stage for India-China rivalry

Amid New Delhi’s concerns over growing military ties between Beijing and Colombo, Sri Lanka’s envoy Prasad Kariyawasam has said there is no zero-sum game between India and China. He said his country will not be reduced to a stage for the two rising Asian powers to play out their “rivalry”. “We are not in the habit of looking at our relations with India and China as a zero-sum game,” the envoy told IANS in an interview. “We will not allow our land or sea to be used for any inimical purpose by o

17 Sep, 2012