India installs radar systemIndia installs radar system

The Indian Air Force has installed sophisticated radar with all modern systems available for aerial surveillance. It is reported that the main objective of installing this surveillance system is to prevent smuggling and infiltration operations of the LTTE exploiting the Gulf of Mannar to Sri Lanka.

Southern Air Command, Air Vice-Marshal Y.R. Rane after discussing with the Indian Air Force and Indian Coast Guard officials addressing the media said that that the new radar has eight antennae which could cover the entire Gulf of Mannar region. It had the capability to track objects such as ships, barges, trawlers, small boats and others in the Indian territorial waters off Mandapam coast.

Meanwhile the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police P. Rajendiran stated that the police have set up 60 additional check posts along the coastal areas to intensify patrolling to check infiltration of the LTTE into the state.

Reports from India said recently that Tamil Nadu Police has now detained an LTTE agent named Abdul Kareem under the National Security Act (NSA) who was earlier arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police for masterminding a secret plan to smuggle 50,000 batteries from India to the LTTE in Sri Lanka

Arthur C. Clark Passes Away

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clark has died. He was most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name.

LTTE fund raiser arrested in Canada

A Tamil person living in Canada was apprehended by the Canadian authorities yesterday (17) for allegedly collecting funds for the LTTE terrorists in Sri Lanka. He was operating in Canada under the banner of a socio-cultural organization, Canadian officials said on Monday (17). It is reported that this is the first incident where an LTTE operative was apprehended in Canadian soil. The LTTE is a banned terrorist outfit in Canada. The arrested man has been collecting funds for the LTTE from the Tamil Diasporas in Canada.

According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) the apprehended person has been identified as Prapaharan Thambithurai, an ethnic Tamil who will face Canada's first terrorism financing charge: collecting money for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers.

A senior British Columbia counter-terrorism officer told the media that Mr. Thambithurai was soliciting donations for the World Tamil Movement (WTM), which police say is the leading front organization for the LTTE in Canada.

Italian Police Put The Lid On LTTE TV Channel

Italian Police has put the lid on the LTTE's illegal propaganda machinery, Euro Television channel. The illegal TV channel transmission was closed from last Thursday.

Sri Lanka Ambassador Hemantha Warnakulasuriya thanked the Italian authorities for taking action to shut down the illegal propaganda machinery emanating from Italian soil operated by Tiger terrorists.

Asian Tribune reported the birth of the terrorist-run new Tamil Television channel in Europe earlier this month-Tamil V Channel-Euro Television.

They started the test telecast of the new Tamil TV channel - Euro Television, from March 1 and it was seen on the Eurobird 9 @ 9o East satellite platform.

Although the channel was said to be transmitting on a trial basis,

Soldier saves life of Tamil mother

Staff Sergeant R.W. Dharmasena of Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment recently volunteered to save a life of a pregnant mother by donating his blood to Point Pedro hospital, Jaffna. Responding to a SOS message published on the Tamil daily "Udyan" on 10th March , requesting to donate rare O negative blood , Sergeant Dharmasena attached to 51 division has volunteered to save the life of the mother and the unborn child.

New Harbour in Oluvil

Mar 15, Colombo: An agreement between Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) and a Danish construction company was signed yesterday to build a new harbour in Oluwil in the Eastern Coast of the Island.

The new harbour is to be set up as a fisheries and commercial harbour. The project at a cost of Euro 46 million is to be completed by the year 2015 under the financial assistance from the Danish government.

According to the government sources, a comprehensive infrastructure development program will be launched parallel to the harbour construction project in the Ampara, Batticaloa and Monaragala districts. The project expects to create over 10,000 job opportunities in the Island’s most underdeveloped areas.

The agreement was signed between the acting chairman of the SLPA and the deputy chairman of the construction company.Oluvil harbour was a brainchild of late leader of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Mohammad Ashroff that comes in to fruition through the Mahinda Chinthana program of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.