Ship being taken to Sri Lankan shores

The Navy says it is monitoring the movements of a “suspicious” ship 150 Nautical Miles off the Eastern coast. It has been found that a large number of people are on board of the ship and authorities are trying to figure out whether it was into human smuggling or smuggling weapons to LTTE.

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Another claymore mine explosion in Vavuniya

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LTTE terrorists continued their second claymore explosion for the day in Vavuniya, around 4.50 p.m. today (2nd March). The claymore bomb fixed push bicycle had been parked near wayside of a shop at "Sanasa Junction" in Wirapuliyankulam - Vavuniya.

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LTTE terrorists exploded a claymore in Vavuniya

LTTE terrorists exploded a claymore mine at Pompemadu in Vavuniya today. The explosion took place around 7.20 a.m. targeting a group of Army personnel who were performing duties in the area.

Due to the explosion one soldier reported killed, defence reports said.

Army troops conducted a search operation in the area subsequent to the incident, defence reports further added.


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MAS Linea Aqua donates Rs. 1 million

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MAS Linea Aqua private limited, subsidiary of MAS holdings has donated 1 Million rupees to the Api Venuwen Api Fund yesterday (February 28). Retired Colonel Rohan Anthony, the Group Human Resources Manager of MAS Holdings, handed over the cheque to Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Ministry premises last evening.

Api Venuwen Api Fund is a welfare fund established Ministry of Defence to build 50,000 houses for war heroes. Under this project 1620 houses are being constructed at Ipalogama in Kakirawa.

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Codegen International donates 800,000 rupees

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Codegen International Private Limited, one of the leading enterprises in Sri Lanka's software industry yesterday (February 28) donated sum of 800,000 rupees to Ministry of Defence Seva Vanitha Unit for a house construction project. Honorary Chairman MOD Seva Vanitha, Mrs. Ioma Rajapksa received the cheque from the Director legal of Codegen International Pvt Ltd, Mr Kusal Subasinghe, at the Ministry premises last evening. Several staff members of the Codegen International Pvt Ltd were also present at the occasion.

The house construction project has been undertaken by the MOD Seva Vanitha to build a house for the family of private G.R. Wijesooriya, who died in an accident while serving under the bomb disposal unit in the Ministry of Defence. Sri Lanka Army is to provide the design and the labour for the project.


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Bomb Blast at Kotahena (update)

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Suicide blast kills LTTE suicide cadre, 4 policemen and 4 civilean injured. Police say the blast occured while a corden and search operation was being conducted in the area.

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