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New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and put Sri Lanka in to bat in their one-day international cricket match here.

Nathan Astle has failed a medical test and has opened the way for Craig McMillan to make a return appearance for New Zealand in the second one-day international against Sri Lanka at Queenstown.

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) kfir jets flew four bombing sorties over Puliyankandalady in Vaharai in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held territory, Saturday around 9:00 a.m, forcing the civilians who had sought safety in the Vaharai hospital to flee in panic, seeking safety inside bunkers, sources from Vaharai said.

Queenstown which normally looks a picture was a cover of cloud and rain and the wicket was covered for the Second One-day bash between New Zealand and Sri Lanka to be played tomorrow starting at 11 a.m. local time and 3.30 a.m. Sri Lanka time.

Construction work on the Indo-Sri Lanka Interconnection Power Transmission line (ISIPTL) built at a cost of USD 240 million with financial assistance from US Aid will commence shortly, Minister of Power and Energy W. D. J. Seneviratne told the Sunday Observer.

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and collaborating paramilitaries have abducted six civilians in the Jaffna district between 24th December, and 30th December according to complaints filed at the Jaffna Human Rights Commission (HRC), civil society sources in Jaffna said. The disappearances and arrests in Jaffna have escalated to alarming proportions in the last few months as part of the …

All Ceylon Hindu Congress (ACHC), which has its headquarters in Colombo, has condemned the aerial attack carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Thursday on the historic Sithirivelautha Swami (Murugan) Temple located in Verugal in Eachchilampathu division, south of Trincomalee district.

Acute shortage of newsprint and printing ink in Jaffna may force closure of Tamil dailies, Uthayan, Yarl Thinakural and Valampuri, administrators at the papers’ main offices said. After the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) closed A9 in 11 August, no printing material and ink were allowed in to Jaffna district, officials added.

Dec 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Census and Statistics Department yesterday announced that consumer prices in Sri Lanka rose by 2.3 percent in December.

Dec 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army Chief Sarath Fonseka yesterday visited Jaffna and held discussions with Division Brigade Commanders on the current security situation.

Dec 30, Colombo: A top professor from India has said that Sri Lanka’s Sea Tigers’ power should be destroyed without delay by a combined naval operation by India and Sri Lanka.

Dec 30, Colombo: Twelve new Divisional Secretariats are to be set up next year, a proposal revealed.

Dec 30, Colombo: Sons of UNP frontliner S.B. Dissanayake have been accused of attacking a girl at a party in a star class Colombo hotel on Christmas eve.

Dec 30, Colombo: A day after President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s surprise stop at a media reception, the President yesterday visited the Lake House and held talks with editorial staffers and other employees.

Dec 30, Colombo: A delegation of the LTTE proxy party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday called on India’s spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar and requested him to persuade the Indian leaders to take up the Tamil’s cause in Sri Lanka.

Dec 30, Colombo: The mainstream LTTE’s breakaway group Karuna faction claimed that they have overrun three LTTE camps located in Thoppigala jungle in the Batticaloa district, killing at least 30 LTTE cadres in the early hours of today.

The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF), in its latest bombardment in Vaharai on Thursday, completely destroyed a water refinery constructed by the UN agencies to remedy the drinking water shortage in the area near Verugal Murugan temple, charged S. Jeyanandamoorthy, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian from Batticaloa. In a press communiqué issued on Friday, the MP said: “the bombardment on …

Sri Lanka’s air force bombed Tamil Tigers in a key area in the island’s east on Saturday, the military said, hours after a renegade group announced it overran rebel camps and killed at least 30 militants.

Sri Lanka’s timeline for 2006 is a chilling one dominated as it is by assassinations, attempted assassinations, terrorist massacres, abduction of the young and the old, aerial bombings, artillery duels and massive displacements of innocent civilians.

A breakaway faction of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers said it overran three rebel camps in the east on Saturday, killing at least 30 rebels in one of the biggest attacks in months, but the Tigers denied heavy losses.

A breakaway faction of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers overran three rebel camps in the east of the island on Saturday, killing at least 30 guerillas in one of the biggest attacks in recent months, the group said.

Rival Tamil Tiger factions clashed in eastern Sri Lanka, leaving casualties on both sides, military sources said.

Source: Reuters (Adds Tigers’ denying losses, paragraphs 1, 5-9) By Sanjeev Miglani COLOMBO, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A breakaway faction of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers said it overran three rebel camps in the east on …

A breakaway faction of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers overran three rebel camps in the east of the island on Saturday, killing at least 30 guerrillas in one of the biggest attacks in recent months, the group said.

A breakaway faction of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers overran three rebel camps in the east of the island on Saturday, killing at least 30 guerrillas in one of the biggest attacks in recent months, the group said.