Navy seizes Tiger bomb boat
A Sri Lanka Navy patrol intercepted a Tiger guerrilla boat in the seas off Trincomalee with communications equipment and an outboard motor but a subsequent search by the Harbour Police ...

Peace talks move to committee stage
The government and the LTTE yesterday moved a significant step ahead in the peace process with a decision to begin discussions on a political settlement to the two decade-old ethnic conflict.

PA paid mercenary
The man hired by the previous government to carry out a security audit on the Bandaranaike International Airport and major sea ports after Lloyds Underwriters in UK clamped down a crippling war.....

LTTE seeks war crimes amnesty
Tamil rebels want war crimes pardoned on the grounds that they were committed during a war situation in the country.

Courageous verdict: says Kadirgamar
Well founded suspicions that Tiger guerrilla leader Velupillai Prabhakaran directed assassinations and mass murders of innocents have transformed beyond reasonable doubt over one incident....

Job freeze alarms public servants
Government's decision to stop recruitment and abolish posts in the government sector has drawn much opposition from public servants who claim it would result in a major collapse of the public service.

No comment on court decision: Lokubandara
Responding to charges that he was silent over the sentencing of LTTE leader Prabhakaran for the Central Bank bombing Justice Minister W.J.M Lokubandara told...