| Buckley brick found near Sri Lanka may have been from Second World War ship in sunken HMS Hermes fleet |
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Sri Lanka and its relentless religious intolerance |
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flintshirechronicle.co.uk | Diver Ravana Wijeyeratne discovered the Adamantine brick after a dive around the wreck of the HMS Hermes aircraft carrier, a victim of a Japanese attack off the East coast near Batticaloa in 1942. He believes the brick could have been part of a fleet of ... 
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truthdive.com | In the name of archaeological excavation, Saiva temples located along the border of the Batticaloa district are being vandalized and demolished, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian P. Ariyanethran said at Thaanthoanrieesvarar temple in ... |
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| Eastern provincial election soon; parties consulted |
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Storm damages several areas in many districts |
| Sri Lanka Sunday Times | Grenade at Ranil’s meeting Police are probing the detection of a hand grenade at a Batticaloa hotel where Opposition UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was to attend a meeting on Friday. The grenade was found by Mr. Wickremesinghe’s advance security ... |
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Reliefweb.int | In the Batticaloa district several houses have been damaged in the Ooththucheni and Wadamune Grama Niladari Division areas. 80 families have been temporarily housed in the Ooththucheni Tamil School. In the Uva Province about 40 houses have been damaged in ... |
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| Jaffna Government Agent transfered to Colombo |
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Paduvaankarai people live with UXO threat |
| Sri Lanka Sunday Times | In the meantime, the Batticaloa Government Agent K Arumainayagam will take over her position. In addition, to the following changes, the Vavuniya Government Agent CHMB Charles has been transfered to Batticaloa to take over from Arumainayagam. |
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Press Trust | Explosions take place frequently in resettled villages in Paduvaankarai region of Batticaloa district, declared by the occupying Sri Lanka Army as free of land-mines, civil sources in Batticaloa say. The latest victim is an under-age youth engaged in ... |
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| Indian embassy, Chandrahasan, Rajadurai, conspicuous at Chelva memorial in Jaffna |
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Bomb found before Ranil s arrival at Batticaloa meeting |
| Press Trust | Rajadurai from Batticaloa who defected the Tamil national cause in the late 1970s to join with Sinhala parties, were conspicuous participants at the 35th death anniversary of Thanthai Chelva observed at his memorial in Jaffna on Thursday. The current TNA ... |
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Lanka Newspapers | A book, titled Gota s War: The Crushing of Tamil Tiger Terrorism in Sri Lanka is to be launched tomorrow (May 14) at Water s Edge, Battaramulla. According to author C. A. Chandraprema, Gota s War is a book on the entire conflict , encompassing events that ... |
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| Towards‘healthy’ education |
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LTTE suicide cadre sought asylum in US’ |
| Sunday Observer | Accordingly, 200 schoolchildren from the Batticaloa district and 200 from the Ampara district received bicycles at two ceremonies in Ampara and Batticaloa. Bicycles are already very popular among schoolchildren in the North and the East. We hope that the ... |
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Daily Mirror | The Subject identified himself as Jeevaratnam; DOB: August 25th 1983 Kattankuddy, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka; National Identity Card Number: 832383171V. Subject stated that he wanted to leave the LTTE and requested assistance going to the United States. |
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