LANKA NEWS REPORTER

P.B Jayasundara to Play the Drama Again...

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:09:00 +0000

P.B Jayasundara the ex-Treasury Secretary, after a few months back appointed again as the Srilanka Treasury Secretary. P.B. Jayasundara recently appealed the high court to remove the ban of assuming any government posts, that is imposed by ex chief justice Mr. Sarath N. Silva due to dishonest practice by P.B.

However Srilanka president has requested from P.B to assume the duties once again as the Treasury Secretary. Then P.B. accepted the request and appealed the high Court to remove his ban. Current Chief Justice Asoka De Silva has removed the P.B's Ban and allowed to him to assume duties of Treasury.

After assuming duties by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, P.B. Jayasundara called a special meeting with executive officers of the Treasury to discuss the new strategies of the Secretary.

Asian Tribune Printed Tabloid paper from November

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:48:00 +0000

One of the leading Online news paper operated from Colombo, Srilanka, Asian Tribune going to launch their New Printed tabloid Paper from next November. It will be an all color 12-page English tabloid printed and distributed from Colombo once a week.

Asian Tribune authors also hopes to circulate the paper around the world, but initially it will start from Colombo. And the Good news is Asian Tribune printed Paper is come to you for free of charge. Free paper will funded by advertisement and and other one way funds.

Asian tribune or AT claims that they the tabloid will not be an Anti-Government or Political.
"Like AT, the AT Tabloid will be in the forefront of criticizing the authority not with a sense of venom or to settle scores at the personal and institutional level but as a watchdog of people’s interests and national concerns."

We are also wish Good Luck the AT's move to the Printed form.

Honda launched a new robot for easy personal mobility

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Honda Motor Co Yesterday Launched a new robot ("U3-X") that enables people to move around easily to any direction. The U3-X, equipped with the world's first omni-directional driving system, makes it possible to adjust speed and move, turn and stop an all directions when rider leans the upper body to shift body weight, Honda said.

Pics: Reuters

Find news fast with Google fast flip

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:20:00 +0000

If you are a News hunter you may want to find out news all over the world very quickly.
But one of main problem is slow speed of loading pages and time consuming to find out recent news.

However Google recently developed and launched an attractive and modern news finder.
It's called Google fast Flip: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
That lets you browse news pages without loading the actual page.
it flips the screenshots of news pages around the world and bring them in to an one page.

It also have a mobile version and this lets people who uses mobile internet to view news items very speedily and select the one that they really wants.
Mobile version of Google Flips: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/mobile

LTTE's Nuclear access exposed

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:01:00 +0000

Selvarasa Pathmanadan alias KP revealed to Srilankan security authorities that LTTE planned to buy nuclear weapons from West.
KP before becoming the leader of the LTTE after the death of Prabakaran, has acted as head of LTTE's International affairs and Fund controller.

LTTE is the first ever Terrorist organization that heading to obtain nuclear weapons.
Srilankan authorities has also obtained more info from KP which some of them not published yet.

Mobitel to spend over $30 million to cover North and East

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:49:00 +0000

Srilanka Telecom Mobitel says they are heading to North and East by providing mobile communication facilities to those areas. Mobitel the mobile wing of Srilanka Telecom Ltd. is a leading mobile network in Srilanka.

Mobitel says they will spend about $30m to upgrade Mobitel network in post war zone.
Initially Mobitel will cover up Kandy-Jaffna A9 road spending about $5m.

Chief executive Suren Amarasekera said they are expecting to cover Northen area before the end year 2009.

Facebook challenging to Google and Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:16:00 +0000

Recently Facebook the giant of social networking has taken over 'Friendfeed' that was previously acquired by Google.

You may also know about what is Facebook and Google.
next, what is Friendfeed and what it can do ?

In simple terms Friendfeed is an aggregater of all of your social networking, blog, and other RSS updates. So that people can have all their RSS and other social networking like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter updates in one place.
And also people can subscribes to others updates and news.

So why Facebook bought Friendfeed ?
One key reason is to become a real time search engine rather than Google's regular search.
another may be Facebook wanted to expand it's services over other social networks.
Also they need to became the leader in community networking.

How it affects to Twiiter ?
Twitter is considered as the leader in real time news updates.
With Twitter people can post what just happenning here and there and others can search these updates.Freindfeed is also has a similar feature which people can do real time updates and searches like twitter.
previously Facebook wanted to bought Twitter but the deal did not continue as Twitter is not for sale at that time.

So we can come to an conclusion that Facebook wants to develop a real time search engine that is similar to Twitter. Hence it may affects the Twitter. On the other hand currently people messed up with Google's regular search and they needs to have a real time searches. Friendfeed will do that with challenging to google.

KP new LTTE leader arrested in Bangkok

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:42:00 +0000

KP, Kumaran Padmanadan or Selvarasa Pathmanadan has arrested by Srilankan Intelligence in Bangkok, Wednesday. KP was the LTTE's International smuggle head at the late prbha's time. After the death of the LTTE leader Prabakaran, KP appointed as the new leader of LTTE.

It's said that KP is the person who fulfilled LTTE's arms requirement for years and he also managed all international funds collected by LTTE, worth billions of dollars.

KP was the most wanted LTTE leader after the killing of former leader V. Prabakaran.
This is another successful achievement by Srilanka government in wiping out terrorism from the Island.

Airtel exceeded one million customers in Srilanka

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:28:00 +0000

A leading mobile network in Asia Bharti Airtel has announced that they have exceeded one million customers in srilanka. Airtel achieved this milestone in just 171 days.
In srilanka the competition in mobile networks are really high.However Airtel has able to face the competition successfully and grow their network.

In srilanka leading mobile phone network operators are Mobitel, Dialog, Tigo, Hutch and Airtel. Recently Mobitel has reduced their call time into 2.50 Rs. per miniute to any network in srilanka. following dialog also has reduced their price levels.

Chandrasiri Bandara astrologer arrested

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:25:00 +0000

A Popular astrologer of Srilanka Mr. Chandrasiri Bandara arrested by Srilanka Police due to Publicly predicting of President Mahinda Rajapaksa's immediate ouster from office. Police says that they want to investigate the source of information for his prediction police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekera said.

Police said that Mr Bandara told an opposition meeting that the prime minister would take over as president on 9 September and the opposition leader would become prime minister.

United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa Attanayake says that Srilanka heading towards a dictatorship, the only crime Chandrasiri Bandara commited was presenting information that are adverse to the government.

Chandrasiri Bandara is currently conducting a Srilanka's popular TV program "Para Kiyana Tharuka" on Derana TV.

Pakistan won the ICC T20 world cup against Srilanka, at Lords

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Pakistan today won the final cricket match of ICC T20 world cup, against Srilanka. Srilanka were 138 for 6 wickets and Pakistan achieved the 139 by losing only 2 wickets.
man of the match - Shahid Afridi with 54 not out from 40 balls.

Srilanka won the toss and chosen to bat first, however top level batsman were failed in their inning. T.M Dilshan who became a star in the ICC T20 world cup series, has managed to go back to the waiting room without runs.

In their srilanka innings Kumar Sangakkara scored 64 not out and Angelo Mathews showing an all rounder way managed to play with couple of fours and sixes.

Iran Crisis tend to go forward

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:45:00 +0000

There were thousands of street protesters yesterday clashed with police in capital TEHRAN. Police used tear gas and water cannons to swept out protesters from main streets.
Once again US backed Iran opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has warned by Iran government that stop encouraging people to protest in Iran capital. However protesters are still on streets despite government warnings and police attacks.

Watch Videos of Iran protests:
June 20, Tehran capital-video
Iranians in Paris for democracy in Iran
Paris protests against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Protesters collide with Police in Iran

Iran government has banned the international media on reporting from Iran, However facebook, Youtube and twitter receives latest updates of Iran's current situation.
However protesters said that Internet speed is very low and mobile phone connections are interrupting throughout the day.

Obama statement on Iran :
Yesterday, June20 obama made a statement regarding ongoing conflicts in Iran. In his statement Obama urges Iranian President to stop the violence against Protesters.
"The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.

As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.

Martin Luther King once said - "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.

For some reason I keep picturing Ronald Reagan speaking about the freedom seekers in Iran, somehow I think he would sound a lot less mushy than President Obama. All he has called for here is freedom of assembly, not freedom to self-govern. That said this is a step in the right direction."

Iran government Yesterday said that they are going to recount the 10% of "ballot boxes.”

04 swine flu patients found in Srilanka

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Health official of IDH (Infectious Diseases Hospital)hospital Srilanka, said that they have found the fourth swine flu patient in srilanka. All these patients are from a single family members who arrived Srilanka in last week from Australia.

After the swine flu alert Srilankan health officials made a special attention on it and takes suitable measures to prevent the spreading of disease to others.

Government says that they have taken their fullest attempt to detect AH1N1 infects at the Airport and Harbor. However some medical representatives accused the government that Swine flu detectors of Airport are out of order at the time.

Srilankan health minister MR. Nimal Siripalada Silva says that he has taken suitable steps on AH1N1 as well Dengue fever. But Srilanka's Medical Practitioners says Minister is almost silence on these two health diseases and failed to take much attention.

LTTE supporter jailed in UK

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:09:00 +0000

Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar the leader and creator of British Tamil Association, sentenced for 02 year imprisonment by Justice Saunders at British Courts.
He were charged with illegal procurement of arms and equipments to LTTE in Srilanka. He had direct connections with LTTE and send illegally bought ammunition to Srilanka with LTTE smuggle route.
The judge has said that this was a deliberate violation of UK terrorism law.

Srilanka Cricket: Victorious entering to the Super 8 in ICC T20

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:11:00 +0000

Srilanka Cricket team lead by Kumar Sangakkara entered in to super 8 in ICC t20 world cup, England. Srilanka made their way to super 8 level matches after successfully defeating the strong Australia Cricket.
Australia team made their way back to the home after losing two games in ICC T20, with West Indies and Srilanka.

Srilanka Yesterday marked another victory by defeating West Indies by 15 runs at Trent Bridge. Jayasuriya's massive inning of 81 runs for 47 balls and T.M. Dilshan's clever batting made the srilanka team stronger before they faced to West Indies.

ICC T20 world cup images

Sarath N Silva Retires, New chief Welcomes

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Former Chief Justice of Srilanka Mr Sarath N. Silva retired on last Saturday after serving nearly 15 years. Just two days before his retirement CJ Sarath N Silva has given controversial decision on 'Srilanka Insurance company' reverting it's ownership back to the Srilanka government.

Next Chief of the court Mr. Asoka de Silva has sworn as 32nd chief Justice in Srilanka last Monday. The ceremonial part of getting in to work will held tomorrow at the Supreme Courts complex in Hulftsdorp.

The Bar Association of Srilanka welcomes the new CJ and they hopes Asoka de Silva will uphold the independence of the Judiciary system in the country.

UN chief urges for Srilanka war crime investigations

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:14:00 +0000

UN chief has asked for an investigation of possible war crimes during the defeating of world's most brutal terrorists organization, LTTE. Ban ki Moon says that international examination of Srilankan military actions needed.

Ban ki Moon says that various international groups has asked him to force the srilanka to accept for a war crimes investigations during the ended war against LTTE.

UN chief says that any investigation should be impartial and open. "Any inquiry, to be meaningful, should be supported by the members of the United Nations, and also should be very impartial and objective".

Meanwhile Ban asked from Sri lanka government to allow for any international inquiry upon the breach of humanitarian laws.

Yaldevi Train Resumes its operations back

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Yal Devi train service which has been suspended for the past 20-25 years, as LTTE activities, today restarts it's journey back.
Yaldevi train today traveled along northern railway track to Thandikulam Rail station which is few kilometers away from Vavuniya.

Srilanka Transportation Minister Mr. Dalas Alahapperuma has initiated the opening ceremony of 'Yaldevi backs'.

LTTE has caused much damage to Yaldevi Express by killing travelers and blasting the railway track.

More resources :
Yaldevi the queen of Express Trains
Princess to reign the northern rails again

Srilankan Forces Celebrates Victory

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Srilanka today celebrates the Victory of defeating terrorism from the island. Celebration ceremony held at the Galle Face Green, Colombo. Representatives from all srilankan armed forces who were contributed to the final battle, participated to the ceremony and paraded there.

Celebration is held as a formal salutation to all security forces for their commitment to bring the war to the end and defeat LTTE terrorism.
Srilanka President has stated that his next step is to protect tamil people and provide the maximum security for them, in his Tamil speech.

President Mahind Rajapaksha has expressed his gratitude to the armed forces and all Srilankan people in their immense support to win the war against LTTE. He also didn't forget to mention the support from the friends outside the island. "I am the proudest Head of State in the world" defeating the one of ruthless and largest terrorist organisation in the world. "Let's begin to build our nation then and we want the support from international community to regain our country" He also added.

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noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:39:00 +0000

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UN denies Times Online fake reports

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Last Friday a leading Paper in UK claimed that there were more than 20,000 civilians killed at the final phase of the battle against LTTE. This report directly pointed out the finger on Srilanka government saying that Government hiding the truth. Times Online also said that their report is based on confidential UN Documents about the Srilanka final battle.

Thereafter Times Online and other international magazines highly criticized the Srilanka government and they also said UN should take offensive action over the Srilanka rather than praising the victory.

However United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday denied media reports that the United Nations has covered up a high civilian death toll during the final phase of Sri Lanka's war against Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE). "I categorically reject - repeat, categorically - any suggestion that the United Nations has deliberately underestimated any figures," ban ki moon told at the General Assembly. "Let me also say, whatever the total, the casualties in the conflict were unacceptably high."

In the last week John Holmes also denied the casualties toll reported by Times Online and French newspaper Le Monde. He said that death toll is just an assumption and no one can say the final death toll.

UK police spent 8 million pound sterling over LTTE demonstrations outside the UK Parliament

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:18:00 +0000

UK LTTE supported Tamils demonstrations for last 1 1/2 months caused to pull almost 8 million sterling pounds, said Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson.

Demonstration caused to police force was extraordinarily stretched. "we have to provide such a level of resources that it is reducing policing on the streets of London" he added.

LTTE supported Tamils backed by several UK MP's , protesting outside the UK Westminster Parliament complex during 44 days to now. UK public accused that they are using flags and slogans of banned terrorist organization of the LTTE. Protest also violates the UK Anti Terrorism laws.
LTTE supporters also taking over the public streets around the Big Ben and parliament causing too much noise and traffic blockades.

In some occasions the demonstrators had made uninvited visits to the Indian High Commission in Holborn and protested there. In one occasion they have pelted stones and managed to break the bullet proof windows of the Indian High commission. Sri Lankan embassy has also faced Similar incidents in several times.

few days ago some MP's of the Parliament said that, LTTE protesters were losing the opportunity of other protesting groups of the UK to protest around the Parliament. They also said that honorable speaker should take measures to stop the illicit demonstrations of LTTE.

Tigers (LTTE) are back, Beware !

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:25:00 +0000

Srilanka's successful Winning over the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), have made a huge painful back hit to tiger sympathizers all over the world. LTTE sympathizers now attempts to come back in to light by spreading bogus news on the internet.
The latest incident is, the Times Online (UK) reported that they have found evidences of killing of more than 20,000 tamils in the last few days of the final battle against LTTE in Srilanka.

The title of the 02 reports of Times Online were "The hidden massacre: Sri Lanka’s final offensive against Tamil Tigers" : Read the report
and second : "Times photographs expose Sri Lanka’s lie on civilian deaths at beach" Read the report

Those two reports claimed that aerial photographs, unofficial documents, witness accounts and expert testimony present a clear evidence of an atrocity that comes close to matching Srebrenica, Darfur and other massacres of civilians.

Times Online Further says "With the world’s media and aid organisations kept well away from the fighting, the army launched a fierce barrage that began at the end of April and lasted about three weeks. The offensive ended Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war with the Tamil Tigers, but innocent civilians paid the price."

They says that they have obtained UN's confidential documents which says "nearly 7,000 civilian deaths in the no-fire zone up to the end of April, with an average of 1,000 civilians killed each day until May 19, the day after Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Tamil Tigers, was killed."

However top UN officials today said they have not published such documents to public and they don't thinks that the existing of such documents of the UN. Times Online's whole story is based on the two pictures taken at a helicopter, which shows the destruction of the flimsy refugee camp and a more orderly military cemetery, believed to be for hundreds of rebel fighters. So what we clearly understands here is Times Online have taken in to account the deaths of LTTE tiger cadres as civilians deaths so that increase the total.

Here is another quote from Times Online Report about massacre "the arrangement of the army and rebel firing positions and the narrowness of the no-fire zone made it unlikely that Tiger mortar fire or artillery caused a significant number of deaths. “It looks more likely that the firing position has been located by the Sri Lankan Army and it has then been targeted with air-burst and ground-impact mortars,”
Just look at the above time's quaote and what do you conclude ?

A fairly biased report and clear attempt to blame the Srilankan government and it's ARMY.
With an unsuccessful effort to providing a fake picture about the issue to the world.

Srilanka Resolution won at UNHRC

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:04:00 +0000

Srilanka won it's resolution on "Assistance to Sri Lanka in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights" at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva ,27May. Srilanka received 29 votes in favor of the Resolution from UNHRC member countries and just 12 votes against it.

Countries who were supported the Srilanka including China, India, Russia, Indonesia, Philippines, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa, and other African countries. The emphasis here is that votes are mostly received from Developing Nations, Political Analyzers says Developing Nations no more act in Prejudice over high power developed nations and this is a good move to demolish the power of US and it's sympathizers on international organisations and committees.

Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe says that "This reflects that the international community is behind Sri Lanka in its endeavour to rebuild the nation and to provide our citizens with equal opportunities”.

The UN human rights council called on Tuesday for an international inquiry to determine if Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil rebels committed war crimes in the last burst of their conflict and Sri Lanka should ensure the full access to displaced people in camps located north.
But in an unusual move, Sri Lanka itself submitted a resolution stressing its sovereign right to act without outside interference, which then Human Rights Council approved.

Human Rights Watch
The "Human Rights Watch" is deeply disappointed with the UNHRC decision of praising Srilanka's resolution rather than opposing it.

Russia Continued to support Srilanka

noreply@blogger.com (The Lanka Reporter) — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:00 +0000

President of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev has assured that Russia will continued to support Srilanka on reconstruction of the country. Dmitriy Medvedev said this in a telephone conversation with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday 26May.

Dmitriy Medvedev further said that Srilanka is one of the old friend of Russia and there's no doubt of continued support from Russia to rebuild the nation that destroyed by LTTE terrorists for over 30 years.

Srilanka President Mahinda Rajapaksha also expressed his appreciation to Russian President over the amiable support at the UN Security Council and their support to restoration of peace.

Dmitriy Medvedev also have agreed that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Sri Lanka in this October.