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845 matching reports found. Showing 601 - 620 [TamilNet, Thursday, 27 March 2003, 16:57 GMT]The Sri Lankan Police Thursday produced in the
district court of Mannar a person arrested allegedly
for transporting empty casings of artillery shells.
Police told court that they had found six empty
casings, each two feet long, in a lorry bringing scrap
metal from the Vanni at the Uyilankulam entry point in
Mannar. Legal sources in the Mannar courts, however,
said expended ordnance was not illegal. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 19:37 GMT]The Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) is to lay foundation Thursday for a housing scheme in Thiriyai village, a traditional Tamil village, about forty-two km north of Trincomalee town. The proposed housing scheme is to facilitate refugees to return to their own land after about twenty years, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 23 March 2003, 12:43 GMT]An appeal has been made to the Hindu Affairs Ministry and Local Government Ministry of the United National Front (UNF) to take immediate steps to relocate Sinhala fishermen who settled illegally in the Uthayanpadu beach of the Back Bay sea in Trincomalee to their own homes in the outskirts of Trincomalee and to declare the beach a sacred area where Hindu temples in the east port town have been conducting their annual festivals and other religious rites for centuries, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 March 2003, 21:39 GMT]While the attention of the peace talks and in the international community focuses on the internally displaced Tamils of the northern peninsula, the Tamils of the east, forced out by the Muslim Home Guards of the Sri Lanka Government have been forgotten. Residents of Tamil villages destroyed in the colonization of the east told TamilNet of their desire, and current inability, to return home. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 15 March 2003, 18:39 GMT]The 23-3 Brigade of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) which is located in close proximity to the Weber stadium in Batticaloa, has prohibited the use of the Weber stadium sports facilities after 6 p.m, sources said. Youths and other users of the playing fields are also being subjected to severe body search, added sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 14 March 2003, 16:57 GMT] The leader of the Government of Sri LAnka (GOSL) peace team and Minister Mr. G.L.Peiris addressing a seminar for principals of national schools in Colombo Friday
said that the United States of America (USA) has gifted a coast guard frigate to the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN), sources in Colombo said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 08 March 2003, 02:12 GMT]Commander of the 23rd division of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Minneri, Batticaloa, A.R. Balasuriya, refused permission to allow resettlement in the border village of Mylanthanai, sources in Batticaloa said. Former residents who went to their village to resettle had to turn back to their refugee camp in Valaichenai, according to sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 March 2003, 17:00 GMT]The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Member of Parliament (MP) from the Ampara district, Mr. A. Chandraneru, has requested in a letter to the Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe, that the police checkpoint operating from the Cultivation Services Office at Periyaneelavanai in the Ampara district should be removed, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 28 February 2003, 21:00 GMT]One hundred and eighty three years old Trincomalee Methodist Girls College,
popularly known as the Vembadi school, held its annual prize giving
celebration
Thursday with the Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Human Resources
Development, Education and Cultural Affairs, Mr.S.Thillainadarajah, as the
chief guest.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 28 February 2003, 20:39 GMT]The Eastern High Court Judge Mr.S.Paramarajah Friday discharged seven
accused indicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and Emergency
Regulation (ER) when the State Counsel withdrew the indictments served on them. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 23 February 2003, 01:01 GMT]Lives of thousands of poor households in the remote villages of NorthEast can be considerably enhanced if one can provide them with low-cost electricity to meet their modest lighting needs. The abundance of solar energy present in NorthEast and the availability of affordable photo-voltaic (PV) technology makes this possible. An examination of the feasibility of establishing a PV industry and its sustainability, its economic viability and the possible growth of the PV industry to branch into more challenging business endeavours, follows. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 22 February 2003, 21:49 GMT]The Trincomalee Rotary Club Saturday laid the foundation stone for a
forty-house project at Varothia Nagar, 5 km north of Trincomalee town to
the returnees from Vanni region. The German Technical Co-operation (GTZ)
has agreed to finance this project by allocating 3.6 million rupees,
Trincomalee Rotary Community Services Director Mr.A.Z.J.Singarayer said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 21:30 GMT]In Udumbankulam, a minor Tamil hamlet in the little
known interior of Sri Lanka’s southeastern coast, the
fields are densely green where 17 years ago on
February 19, 1986 the Sri Lankan military hacked and
beat to death 128 farmers on the village’s threshing
floor. The area is being gradually retrieved from the
clutches of the jungle. A handful of intrepid former
residents who returned to the village five months ago
are eagerly looking forward to a bumper crop of rice.
But Feb 19 remains an indelibly bitter day for them.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 February 2003, 00:49 GMT]Trincomalee Magistrate, Mr.S.Thiagendran, Monday issued warrant on the Nilaveli political head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Mr.Thooyavan, when the Kuchchaveli Police informed the court that they were unable serve the summons on him and moved that a warrant be served on
him, legal sources said. The court said the warrant is returnable on March 17, legal sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 08 February 2003, 01:43 GMT]Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers continue to collect information
on residents in Jaffna peninsula, Mullaitivu administrative secretariat moves to its former home, and Oddusuddan school damages due to war is estimated to be Rs 5 lakhs.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 February 2003, 11:59 GMT]Dr. Astrid Heiberg, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oslo, who has a broad experience in human rights and humanitarian advocacy has been appointed for the sub-committee in gender issues, a Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 February 2003, 22:40 GMT]The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Thursday commemorated the thirteenth death anniversary of their twenty-two cadres at an event held at
the Trincomalee town political office, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 February 2003, 19:24 GMT]At a conference held Thursday at the political office of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Nilaveli, sixteen km north of Trincomalee town, a decision was made to delay the opening of the reconstructed war memorial in Gopalapuram in remembrance of twenty-two LTTE cadres who died in a boat mishap in 1990, until the problem is sorted out by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission and the Tamil parliamentarians of the Trincomalee district, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 February 2003, 03:42 GMT]In Mullaitivu district, five schools have not been functioning from 1990, and only 50% of the teacher vacancies have been filled placing the educational welfare of children in the district in an unacceptable state, educational sources in Mullaitivu said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 02 February 2003, 18:55 GMT]The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) Sunday morning deployed its personnel preventing repairs to a Liberation Tigers war memorial at the Gopalapuram junction, in Nilaveli village, sixteen km off north of Trincomalee town, residents of
the area said.
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