OTHER NEWS NAVY-SLAF destroy 6 LTTE Boats Foreign Ministry will move a supplementary budget for the forthcoming SAARC Summit. EU delegation arrived Troops Liberate Illuppaikkadavai    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend Provincial ministers for the Eastern Provincial Council will be sworn in today 16-05-2008 Sunil C. Perera in Colombo The Presidential Secretariat says provincial ministers for the Eastern Provincial Council will be sworn in this evening.The ceremony will be held around 4. 00 pm at the Presidential Secretariat. However there is no news about Chief Ministership , said sources. Yesterday a government spokesman said TMVP leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan will be sworn in as chief minister of the Eastern Province . Later the government postponed the swering in ceremony. The latest reports reveal that the new Chief Minister of the Eastern Province will be sworn in today at 4 PM Sri Lanka time. Still Presidential secretariat has not anounced the name of the Chief Minister designate. So who is he? – Sivanesathurai Chanthirakanthan nom de guerre Pillaiyan? or M.L.A.M. Hizbullah? Print Version | Email to friend

NAVY-SLAF destroy 6 LTTE Boats Sun, 20-07-2008 14:00:00 Six LTTE boats were destroyted and two damaged by the Air Force and Navy, three km south of Nachchikuddah.... |FULL STORY|

Foreign Ministry will move a supplementary budget for the forthcoming SAARC Summit. Sun, 20-07-2008 13:00:00 Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry moved a supplementary budget in parliament on Tuesday to obtain Rs. 2,880,180,332 for the forthcoming SAARC summit. Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama will present this estimate and the parliament will hold a six hour debate on this proposal. According to the parliament sources recurrent expenditure will be Rs.401,881,272.00 and Capital expenditure will be Rs.2,478,299,060.00. It contained allocations for fuel - some Rs. 45,994,935 and diets and... |FULL STORY|

Advertisement

EU delegation arrived Sun, 20-07-2008 10:00:00 EU Parliamentary Delegation is now in Sri Lanka .It leads by EU Parliamentarian Robert Evans who was a British MP. Deputy Leader of the delegation Niranjan Deva Adithya , who is a Sri Lanka said the team will meet Cabinet ministers, Political parties, Civil societies , Media and the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivaneshathurai Chandrakanthan. During their six day visit the team discuss on GSP Plus status and several issues with Sri Lankan authorities. The GSP plus con... |FULL STORY|

Troops Liberate Illuppaikkadavai Sun, 20-07-2008 10:00:00 Sri Lanka army has declared Iluppaikkadavai town liberated for the first time after 21 years this afternoon (July 20). According to defence sources troops of Task Force 1 , Commando brigade and Army 57 division encircled the remote town situated 12 km North of Vidattaltivu by last night and entered in to the town this morning. The sources further said that another large LTTE stronghold situated on the Northwestern coast of the Island has fallen with the new victory. Troops of Task... |FULL STORY|

EVENT REPORTS Songstress Nanda Malini takes UK by storm..[Read] Sri Lankans unite at Bak Maha Ulela in London..[Read] UK Visakhians Elect the 2008-09 Committee at the 25th AGM..[Read] Agents sparkle at SriLankan awards night..[Read]