The Government is to introduce tough new emergency regulations next week and re-enforce the Prevention of Terrorism Act in a bid to curb growing threats posed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Sri Lanka’s latest and largest military deal, the procurement of four MiG-27 ground attack craft and overhaul to seven others now with the Air Force worth over billions of rupees (or millions of dollars) has raised a number of questions, an investigation by The Sunday Times has revealed.

A distraught school teacher committed suicide after he learnt that his brother, an Army Major, had loaned him moneys reportedly obtained from the LTTE for selling information to the enemy.

The Government is preparing a written challenge to contest allegations made by a UN Representative for Children and Armed Conflict on Sri Lanka, Allan Rock, that the security forces were aiding and abetting the LTTE's breakaway Karuna faction to abduct child-soldiers.