Srilanka ARMY captured Parappakkadantan.

Security forces personnel operating in Mannar front made another major breakthrough capturing LTTE's stronghold in Parappakkadantan, 4Km north of Giant Tank, in Mannar front , June 28.

Terrorists are used the place as a a firing rang, probably for training requirements, ARMY intelligence says that LTTE top leaders are used the place for operational activities.
Meanwhile, several tombs erected for terror cadres killed in past gun battles were also found in general area Alkaddiveli, between Andankulam and Parappakkadantan.
These areas were under LTTE clutches for more than two decades and it clearly shows the inability of LTTE terrorists to face security forces who are continuously marching towards LTTE strongholds in multi-pronged offensive launched to liberate the Wanni.
ARMY's operations are continuing this area.

Pressure from India to stop military action

It is said that the main intention of recent visit of a high profile Indian delegation to Sri Lanka is to asked the Government to stop military action against the LTTE.
This is a hot topic among srilankan politicians these days.
But the governmwnt rejects the story, saying the objective of visit is to manifestation of the flourishing bilateral relations between the two countries, Cabinet spokesman Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said.
Pointing out that the Government's action against the LTTE was aimed at liberating the people of the North from terrorism, Minister Yapa said that both countries concurred on the need to address the grievances of the Tamil community through a political solution.
"Our relations with India were never as friendly and favourable as today. It is as a result of these healthy relations that not only political leaders but also top officials of the two countries are holding discussions on a regular basis," he added.

Bill Gate leaves Microsoft

The Microsoft co-founder colossus spends his last day at the office on Friday.
After decades devoted to Microsoft, Gates will turns his attention full time to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he established with his wife.
Gates leaves at a time which faster growing and competitive computer era.
There are 03 who filled the vacancy of gates.
Ray Ozzie : chief software architect
Craig Mundie: chief research and strategy officer
Steve Ballmer: executive officer at the software colossus based in Redmond.
Gates remains chairman of the Microsoft board of directors and its largest shareholder.
Google and other online industries have controlled lager part of services which Microsoft dominated previously.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system released in January of 2007 has flopped with customers, many of whom are clinging to its predecessor Windows XP.
However Windows is still used on 90 percent of the world's computers, Macintosh computers have grown to more than five percent of the market.

Microsoft failed in a recent bid to buy Yahoo for nearly 50 billion dollars in order to combine online resources to better battle Google in the booming Internet search and advertising.

Travel SriLanka

Travel SriLanka

Quick facts:
srilanka is surrounded by Indian ocean. It is an tiny island located south to india.
Because of its location in the path of major sea routes, Sri Lanka is a strategic naval link between West Asia and South East Asia, and has been a center of Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times.

Ancient Sri Lanka was also the first in the world to have established a dedicated hospital in Mihintale in the 4th century BCE. Ancient Sri Lanka was also the world's leading exporter of cinnamon, which was exported to Egypt as early as 1400 BCE. Sri Lanka was also the first Asian nation to have a female ruler in Queen Anula.
The recorded history is goes 2500 years ago.
srilanka is very popular among travelers.
The government has launched some projects recently to attract travelers around the world.


Resources:

• Official travel web site
• lonely planet
• srilanka.com
• wikipedia
• lanka virtual library
• welcome to lanka
• lanka news
• lanka news sites

America flood | will increase the food crisis

Recently america cities along with the Mississippi River, has hardly hit by flooding.

Storms and flooding has left thousands homeless in 6 states and killed 24 persons.

The water is still well above the banks of the upper Mississippi River at this time.

The river started cresting Sunday at Canton, Missouri,

Flooding in several Midwestern states has killed two dozen people and injured 148, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and 35,000 to 40,000 people in several states have been displaced. 

the other side of the flood is destroying the crops.

US as a leading food products supplier to world market, researchers says world food crisis may increase in further days.

The flood damage to crops could reach $4-5 billion, according to the state's agriculture secretary.

In round numbers, U.S. farmers produce about $100 billion worth of crops and about $100 billion worth of livestock each year. 

The United States is, by far, the largest producer of corn in the world. Corn is grown on over 400,000 U.S. farms. In 2000, the U.S. produced almost ten billion bushels of the world’s total 23 billion bushel crop. Corn grown for grain accounts for almost one quarter of the harvested crop acres in this country. Corn grown for silage accounts for about two percent of the total harvested cropland or about 6 million acres.

Israel and Hamas ceasefire

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has begun,

Under the terms of the truce, Israel will ease its blockade on Gaza and talks to release an Israeli soldier held by Hamas are expected to resume.

Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, has warned that the truce, which started at 0600 (0300 GMT), will be fragile.

At least 40 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza at Israel on Wednesday and Israel carried out air strikes.

Another militant group, Islamic Jihad, who lost several members to Israeli air strikes in recent days, claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.

The United States on Wednesday expressed hope that the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas would force the militant group to "give up terrorism."

"We hope this means no more rockets will be fired by Hamas at innocent Israelis as well as lead to a better atmosphere for talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority," said U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Gordon Johndroe.

"We appreciate Egypt's efforts and hope they are ultimately successful, but for that to happen, Hamas has to choose to become a legitimate political party and give up terrorism. They can't continue to do both," he said.

Israel on Wednesday officially confirmed an Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip, starting at 6:00 a.m. (0300 GMT) Thursday

12 killed LTTE suicide attack in Vavuniya

LTTE continues with its sucide attack and today it was in Vavuniya. In the attack 12 police personnel including 3 woman police constables were killed and over 20 others have suffered injuries when a motorbike ridding LTTE suicide cadre blew himself in front of the Senior Superintendent of Police office complex in Vavuniya this morning.

The suspected LTTE attacker reported to have arrived in a motor bicycle and the explosion had occurred around 7.10 this morning. The attacker had targeted Police personnel leaving the SSP office to various duty points, according to Defence sources.

A total of 23 people were admitted to the general hospital at Vavuniya, including 19 Police personnel and 4 civilians, the Defence sources said. A school girl is also among the victims who suffered injuries, hospital sources further said.

"The LTTE targeted both the police and civilians by carrying out this attack on the main road," military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said by telephone from the capital, Colombo. The blast came "when a change of duty took place."

(A.T)

England unable to ban fund raising for terrorism.

The British have facilitated fundraising for Tamil Tiger Terrorists for the past 25 years on British soil. These terrorists have openly held events in UK to celebrate suicide bombers and fund their terror war against a democracy. British politicians attend these events in exchange for money and votes from terrorists living in the UK. Here is an example: Senior UK Labour MP Keith Vaz speaking at a rally praising suicide bombers: http://www.spur.asn..au/Keith_Vaz.htm. Then the British went on to become the ally of the U.S. to fight terror!!! It is really odd how a nation that funds terrorism openly can go on to fight it. Now the President of Sri Lanka has brought the attention of the entire world to the double standards of the British that has helped terrorists for a quarter century.

The very recent incident is the Pro-LTTE groups using 'sports events' to raise funds.

Under the guise of a 'Sports Competition' the proscribed terrorist outfit LTTE is working on holding a fund raising campaign through British Tamil Forum (BTF) and Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) suspected LTTE front organizations, sources from London reveal.

Sources also say that the event has been organized to glorify suicide cadres of the LTTE.

The event is to take place on the 29th of June in London.

The UK's Metropolitan Police and Anti-Terrorism branch have been unable to ban the LTTE's front organizations from conducting such events in the UK as the events are announced only a few days before the event takes place and advertising and marketing of these fundraising events are undertaken by pro-LTTE businesses, mainly retailers, operating in the UK through the distribution of leaflets and posters on shop front windows, the Asiantribune reported.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an interview with a UK newspaper this week urged the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in the UK to be vigilant of such LTTE clandestine operations carried out to collect funds for the outfit highlighting that supporters of the LTTE were able to raise millions of pounds each year from the Tamil community in Britain, some of whom were coerced into donating the money.

The President reiterated that there is only one kind of terrorists and said "I don't agree that there are good terrorists and bad terrorists.

LINKS:

British Hypocrisy over Terrorists helps terror
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/370572/cs/1/

Jane's Information Group: Feeding the Tiger - how Sri Lankan insurgents fund their war:

http://www.janes.com/news/security/jir/jir070810_1_n.shtml

Supporters of the LTTE raise millions of pounds each year in Britain
http://www.sinhala.net/LocalNews/SinhalaNet_Full_News.asp?ID=3605#NewsViewBM

FBI's Research: TAMING THE TAMIL TIGERS, From Here in the U.S.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan08/tamil_tigers011008.html

SriLankan Government dissolves 2 provincial councils

SriLankan Government dissolves 2 provincial councils

North-Central and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Councils

The North Central Province was headed by Berty Premalal Dissanayaka and the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council was headed by Maheepala Herath before the government took this decision.

According to government sources, in the North Central Provincial Council, the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) currently has only 13 member seats against the opposition represented by the United National Party (UNP) with 10 seats, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) with 8 seats, and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) with 1 seat.

In the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council, the UPFA has secured 19 seats against the opposition parties, which include the UNP with 15 member seats, JVP with 10 seats and Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) with 1 seat. The government says the lack of a simple majority will create difficulties in passing resolutions in the two Provincial Councils.

The main opposition the UNP and firebrand leftist party the JVP yesterday fired fresh salvos separately at the Government for its decision to dissolve two Provincial Councils and go for polls, a move which has triggered a series of allegations.

they also saids that this is an extra expend of public funds and wastage.

The government is doing this without any valid reason to fulfil its irrational desire for power during a time when the people are suffering due to the escalating cost of living.

JVP says they go to courts against dissolving.

UNP says they succesfully faced to the election and win it.

Mortuwa bus bomb kills 30 people

06 June 2008
today morning at 7.30 a.m a bomb has exploded within a bus near Moratuwa University.
at this moment 30 people killed 10 females 5 students and more than 80 has injured.the bus was very crowded at the moment of explosion. many school children are dead and injured.
This is the 4th explosion done by LTTE cadres in a highly crowded civilians areas within two weeks time.

Emergency crews were rushing the wounded to a government hospital, and police said they feared the death toll would rise.

The blast happened near a southern suburb in the city of Colombo.

Police said they also discovered and diffused a claymore mine in the same place, preventing another
explosion.

LTTE is a ruthless terrorist organization fighting for a mono ethnic separate homeland for the Tamils in Sri Lanka since 1983. During 3 decades of its bloody terror war against Sri Lankan citizen it has killed tens and thousands of innocent civilians in village massacres, bus bombings, train bombings, suicide bombings, and etc.