LTTE suffers heavy beating; Troops neutralize offensive advance- Muhamalai

At least 52 LTTE terrorists were killed while scores of terrorist casualties were on the rise following counter attacks from troops at an LTTE offensive advance at Muhamalai this morning, security sources said.

Troops effectively neutralized the LTTE offensive taking over few LTTE bunkers inflicting heavy losses to the outfit, retaliating the terrorist offensive today(07) at 5.30a.m. Scattered LTTE elements were pushed backed assisted with long range artillery barrages, ground sources said. Security forces had full control over the LTTE bunkers till 7.a.m and later consolidated positions along the defences, the sources said.

Eleven soldiers sacrificed their lives and another fourty-one sustained injuries in defending the Muhamalai forward defences, MCNS said. LTTE vehicles were observed ahead of the defences rushing with heaps of slain terrorists and casualties, ground sources confirm.

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400 LTTE militants killed since Oct: Lanka govt

As many as 400 LTTE militants have been killed in encounters with government forces since last month, largely due to information provided by civilian inhabitants in embattled northern Sri Lanka, an official said here today.

While 349 tiger rebels were gunned down during October, as many as 51 LTTE militants have been killed this month, Defence Spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara told PTI.

"Besides the success of the security forces during confrontations with the tiger rebels, the common people in northern region are also informing about the presence of the LTTE rebels who are forcing people to join the outfit to carry out attacks," he said.

"During the month of October itself, we received 29 pieces of information from the common people in the northern region on the whereabouts of the LTTE rebels that also helped us in dealing with the militants," Nanayakkara said.

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Congress slams Karunanidhi for praising slain LTTE leader

The Congress Monday slammed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi for 'mourning' slain LTTE leader S.P. Thamilchelvan and reminded him that LTTE was an organisation banned in the country.

'The Congress disapproves Chief Minister Karunanidhi's mourning the death of the LTTE leader Thamilchelvan,' party spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan told reporters Monday.

Karunanidhi has also invited criticism from arch rival AIADMK leader J. Jayalalitha for penning a poem on the slain Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader, praising his courage and mental strength.

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LTTE breakaway chief may be deported to Sri Lanka

LTTE's breakaway faction leader Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan, better known as Karuna, is likely to be deported to Sri Lanka following his arrest in London for allegedly travelling on a forged passport.

"Karuna, who was booked by the London police for travelling under a forged passport could be deported to Sri Lanka," Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry sources said on Saturday.

Ahead of Karuna's arrest on Friday, uncertainty about his whereabouts persisted for long, though it was widely believed that he was in the UK.

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Indian IT co to invest $ 1 million in Lanka

India-based data services provider ValueFirst will invest $ 1 million in the next 18 months to expand its presence in Sri Lanka, which it sees as a potential destination.

"We propose to invest one million dollars in the next 18 months in the Island country as we see major potential to expand in this growing market, ValueFirst CEO Srinand Sridharan told reporters on Tuesday at the launch of its services in Emerald Nation.

ValueFirst, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), would tap the 7 million mobile phone users in Sri Lanka to expand its services in areas like stock market and banking after tying up with cell phone companies, he said.

The company's co-founder Vijay Shukla ValueFirst said the mobile revolution in Sri Lanka has raced ahead of the internet revolution.

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Sri Lanka major opposition national organizer to join the ruling party

Speculations are spreading in media circles that the United National Party (UNP) National Organizer S.B. Dissanayake would join the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) soon.

Sources say that discussions are underway to redress the UNP leader’s civil and political rights under a special pardon by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

S.B. Dissanayake was a former right hand of the ex-President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. He later defected, joined the UNP and held a senior portfolio under Ranil Wickremasinghe’s premiership.

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