The Naval Intelligence recently recovered four US-built inboard engines acquired by the Sea Tigers to power attack craft, which posed a formidable threat to the Navy. Authoritative sources say the engines, Mercruisers, recovered from Vellamullivaikkal, Mullativu are in top condition. During the eelam war IV, the LTTE may have acquired over 100 Mercruisers, though some of them were destroyed in SLN operations on the high seas directed against LTTE floating warehouses, sources say.

Kadurugoda Viharaya has been re-established to the glory it deserves although the pristine glory of the second century BC Sinhela Buddhist construction will never return to the site. Naming it correctly has angered some racist elements who find anything that rhymes like a Tamil word to be Tamil. The government must be thanked for restoring the site once again with respect, sanctity and holiness denied to it for decades. What’s the truth about Kadurugoda and what about the counter-claims?

A lawsuit accusing a Wall Street hedge fund manager and his father of using a charitable foundation to funnel millions of dollars to the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan terrorist group, can go forward, a federal judge in New Jersey says. The suit, filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, concerns the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), a non-profit that the U.S. Treasury Department shut down in 2007 for allegedly bankrolling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (aka Tamil Tigers)

For the first time ever, the government is to have ‘Job - Fair’ for the youth of the Northern Region especially ex-LTTE combatants who are being integrated back into society following their rehabilitation, said Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Brig Sudantha Ranasinghe yesterday

Heralding a new era of military cooperation, regional understanding and further promoting mutual bonds of long-lasting friendship between India and Sri Lanka, Indian Army Chief of Staff General Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC, along with a high-level Army delegation, arrived in Sri Lanka last afternoon to a rousing reception, accorded by his Sri Lankan counterpart at the Colombo International Airport.

Sri Lanka is in the process of building and re-deploying its naval and air assets to thwart any future attempt to open up illegal sea routes to and from the country. The navy and air force will re-position their assets in support of ground deployment in coastal areas.

By Major General (Retd.) Lalin Fernando - Over one year has passed since the epic and annihilating victory of the SL Forces over the most bestial and formidable terrorists the world has ever known. While gratefully remembering those who sacrificed their lives in the struggle and the innocents who were killed, thankfully peace prevails everywhere.

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have been resettled in their original places in Kilinochchi district have successfully cultivated paddy on 6,220 acres of this Yala season, Assistant Commissioner Agriculture Department, Kilinochchi I. Dhayaroopan said.

A self-confessed people smuggler who helped asylum seekers get on boats to Australia has told a court of bribes paid in Indonesia. Sri Lankan-born Tamil Pathmendra Pulendren, 36, from Pendle Hill in Sydney's west, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge of facilitating the arrival of unlawful people to Australia.

Seeking to give a fillip to bilateral military ties, army chief General V.K. Singh is set to undertake a five-day visit to Sri Lanka from Sunday to discuss defence cooperation.  During his visit, Singh is scheduled to meet Defence Secretary, Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, his Sri Lankan counterpart, Mr Jagath Jayasuriya, and other senior defence officials. 

A lawsuit accusing a Wall Street hedge fund manager and his father of using a charitable foundation to funnel millions of dollars to the LTTE, a Sri Lankan terrorist group, can go forward, a federal judge in New Jersey says. The suit, filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, concerns the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), a non-profit that the U.S. Treasury Department shut down in 2007 for allegedly bankrolling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (aka Tamil Tigers), which the U.S.

Military Spokesman Major General UAB Medawela said that more than 300,000 landmines laid by the LTTE terrorists in the North and East have been cleared by the de-mining groups. There is still another area of 2000 square kilometres to be cleared. Making this observation at a press conference held at the Media Centre for National Security, the Military Spokesman said that an area of 1,800 square kilometres of the Northern, Eastern and North Central Provinces have been cleared by the de-mining groups.

The Sri Lanka Air Force has recovered gutted light aircraft parts belonging to the LTTE from a container, where they were kept during the height of the Wanni battle in Vellamullivaikkal and Ampalawanpokkanai.

Resettlements in Vadamarachchi east begun recently facilitating Tamil civilians to back their native places after completely removing LTTE laid land mines, unexploded ordnance and trappings in the area. Army Engineers and foreign agencies collectively conducted the de-mining operations in vadamarachchi east.