Train rams into bus killing child, injuring several others

LTTE operative planning attacks in Lanka arrested in Chennai

Tamil Nadu ‘Q’ branch sleuths on Wednesday arrested a key LTTE operative and electronics expert and three men he had recruited in a plan to revive the banned organisation that had been decimated by Sri Lankan forces in 2009. Investigators made the arrests on information from the Sri Lankan army who recently apprehended two Sri Lankan Tamils on suspicion of attempting to rebuild the outfit. During questioning the men told Lankan officers about an attempt to regroup the LTTE by remaining members

20 Dec, 2012

Mass grave unearths ghosts from troubled past

A mass grave unearthed in Sri Lanka has stirred memories of the country’s bloody insurgencies and sparked calls for an official inquiry in the island nation that has drawn global scrutiny for its chequered human rights record. At a building site near a hospital in Matale, a central town 142 km (88 miles) from the capital, Colombo, excavators have found the skeletons, or parts of the skeletons, of at least 59 people. It is possible they died of natural causes many years ago but in a country roc

19 Dec, 2012

India and Sri Lanka in war games

The Special Forces of India and Sri Lanka are now involved in war games at Nahan in Himachal Pradesh (India). The exercises started on December 3 and are likely to last till December 24 at the Special Forces Training Centre, Army officials said. The two countries are expected to share their experience in counter-terrorism operations in the past two decades, they said. The exercises were scheduled to be held somewhere in the South, but they were shifted to Nahan, keeping in view the sensitivit

20 Dec, 2012