Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not attend Sri Lanka’s 60th Independence Day celebrations on February 4, an Indian High Commission official confirmed yesterday.
Fears of an escalation of violence following the Government’s abrogation of the Ceasefire Agreement are setting a serious poser to the conduct of local government elections in the East possibly in March, this year.
Heavy fighting erupted between government troops and LTTE cadres in the Parappakandal area in Mannar, yesterday morning with the military claiming that at least ten Tigers were killed while four soldiers were injured.
