Ban LTTE, end truce

The Government can make a fresh start to address Tamil grievances once it officially bans the LTTE and abolishes the Ceasefire Agreement signed with the LTTE, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said yesterday.

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Air Force destroys LTTE’s global centre

Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets yesterday pounded and destroyed the LTTE’s coordinating centre for international activities located at Vishvamadu in Kilinochchi.

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Total elimination of terrorists in 2008 - PM

Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayaka asserted that the Nation could anticipate to dedicate and celebrate 2008 as the year in which the terrorists would be comprehensively defeated and totally eliminated.

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Slain Bhutto laid to rest in family tomb

Pakistan’s assassinated former Premier Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest in her family’s ancestral grave yesterday amid the wails and tears of hundreds of thousands of mourners.

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Weerawila should be a duty free centre

THE proposed Weerawila airport could be made an even viable venture if it can be used as a duty free centre and a hub for low cost carriers, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, Gamini Wickramasinghe said.

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