It was past 12.30 pm on Friday when Major General Jagath Dias, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Army's 57 Division, reached out to a secure telephone to give the Commander of the Army, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka the good news. Troops have entered Kilinochchi bringing to a close a three-pronged thrust.
Tamil Nadu’s quarrelling politicians seem to have been abandoned even by the gods. Each time the southern State’s chief minister goes into his hostage-taking mode and demands that India’s central government send its external affairs minister to punish the Sri Lanka Government, something intervenes to divert attention away from Colombo.
The world is confused about the global economy. Never in recent times have economists been puzzled so much as about the causes of the global recession and what should be done. At first it was attributed to the sub-prime property market and the excessive ending for real estate.
The massacre in Gaza, where more than 400 Palestinians have been killed by US-supplied fighter planes in retaliation for rocket fire by Hamas killing four Israelis, has reinforced a longstanding truism.
