The Lanka Academic
 
JANUARY 6, 2002 EST, USA
 
A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY LACNET
 
VOL. 2, NO. 275
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Sri Lanka, LTTE to sign pact drafted by Norway: Report
HT/IANS, 07 January 2002. Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger guerrillas are expected to sign in the next few weeks an agreement drafted by Norway that will ensure a permanent truce to end years of ethnic bloodshed. "It is expected that the memorandum of understanding would be signed before Independence Day on February 4 and direct talks will begin before the Sinhala and Tamil New Year on April 14," the Sunday Leader newspaper said. It is expected to spell out the modalities of the ceasefire and will lay down the framework for the first round of peace talks, it said. More...
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Sri Lankan Police Raid Reveals Military
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Chaminda Vass
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TULF leader hails peace initiatives
 Hindu - Nirupama Subramanian , 07 January 2002. The veteran Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) politician, M... Back to the top
Minister's son apologises
 Daily Mirror, 07 January 2002. Taraka Dissanayake, son of Minister S.B. Dissanayake has been forced to apologise to a Galle Face Hotel security guard whom he injured in his New Year's Eve escapade at Galle Face Hotel, Inspector Ananda Kumarasiri, OIC Kollupitiya Police said... Back to the top
Probe on safe house, arms cache
 Daily Mirror, 07 January 2002. Defence Minister Tilak Marapana has ordered two separate investigations into the safe house and the arms cache found at the Millennium Housing Scheme in Athurugiriya last week... Back to the top
Sri Lanka Army unhappy and saddened by governments foolish action
 Ranmali Wijesuriya in Colombo. Number of army personnel have expressed their disgust over the police raid of the safe house operated by the Army's directorate of military intelligence in Athurugiriya... Back to the top
Sri Lanka detains German-chartered vessel for port damage
 Age.com, 07 January 2002. Sri Lanka's Colombo port authorities have detained a German-chartered vessel for causing damages to the port's gantry cranes, officials said... Back to the top
Glitzy casinos, trendy shops pull Indians to Sri Lanka
 Yahoo/Ians, 07 January 2002. Glitzy casinos and trendy shops in Sri Lanka are exerting a pull on Indian holiday makers, with a special promotion package bringing in planeloads of visitors from the subcontinent... Back to the top
Saarc nations adopt declaration on terror
 Times of India, 07 January 2002. The Saarc summit that concluded here Sunday has adopted a resolution on terrorism... Back to the top
Norwegian Delegation to Return to Sri Lanka
 Nothern Light, Sunday, January 06, 2002 12:42 AM EST . A five-member top level Norwegian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Helgeson will visit Sri Lanka this week to push for peace in the war-torn country, government sources said... Back to the top
Sri Lanka media station knocked off air by fire
 The Hindustan Times, Colombo, January 6 . A fire at one of Sri Lanka's leading private radio and television stations on Sunday knocked out transmissions with no initial reports of casualties, a company official said... Back to the top
Over 23 SLFP MPs to support National Government
 CDN, 07 January 2002. Twenty three SLFP Members of the present Parliament, which includes six former Ministers, are willing to support the United National Front to form a National Government, Colombo District MP and former Highways Minister A... Back to the top
A different 10 for record-setting Muralitharan
 Age.com, 07 January 2002. Muttiah Muralitharan added a little more to his stature yesterday, becoming the first bowler in Test cricket to bag 10 or more wickets in a match 10 times... Back to the top
Chandrika behind the one-to-one
 Times of India, 07 Januaary 2002. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s personal equation with the senior leadership of India and Pakistan got through where others did not... Back to the top
Lanka peace moves get double boost
 South Nexus, COLOMBO, Jan 07. Sri Lanka's efforts to end a separatist civil war got a double boost with news that a Norwegian delegation was expected this week to prepare the groundwork for peace talks and President Chandrika Kumaratunga pledging her support to the process... Back to the top
Lanka arrests Italy-bound illegal migrants
 Times of India, 07 January 2002. Sri Lankan police arrested 58 men who were trying to illegally leave the island on three fishing trawlers bound for Italy, officials here said Sunday... Back to the top
Sri Lanka 503 for 8 at tea
 The Hindu NUS, Kandy (Sri Lanka), Jan. 6. (Reuters). Sri Lanka were 503 for eight wickets at tea on the third day of the second Test against Zimbabwe at the Asgiriya International Stadium today... Back to the top
Life beyond 2001 for Arthur C. Clarke
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LTTE wants all curbs to go
 Hindu - Nirupama Subramanian, 06 January 2002. As Sri Lanka embarks on another peace process, the LTTE has said that the Government needs to do more than the steps it has taken so far to set the ball rolling for talks, while the radical nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is saying too much has been given already... Back to the top
New TV channel for humour
 Yahoo India, 07 January 2002. A new tamil television channel Win TV exclusively devoted to humour and to cater to the ethnic tamil population in South East Asian countries like Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia would go on air from Jan 27... Back to the top
Norway Optimistic on Peace Talks
 Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 05/01/02 1640 GMT Peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers to begin within few weeks, informed sources said... Back to the top
Sanath Jayasuriya
 Leo de Lile in Colombo, 6.00pm SLT, Jan.05, 2002. Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya bats during the second day of the second cricket test against Zimbabwe at Asgiriya cricket ground in Kandy, on Saturday, January... Back to the top
Tightrope Walk
 FEER - Manik De Silva, 06 January 2002. THE NEW SRI LANKA government is preparing to walk an economic tightrope, with growth in 2001 regarded by many as likely to be negative or at best below 1%... Back to the top
Chandrika offers to cooperate with UNF
 Gulf-News - Sinha Ratnatunga , 06 January 2002. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has expressed, for the first time officially, a desire to work together with the new United National Front government in Sri Lanka and pledged to support the peace process to end the country's two-decade long insurgency with minority Tamil separatists... Back to the top
Restraint by India appreciated
 Hindu, 06 January 2002. ): Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives today appreciated the ``utmost restraint'' exercised by India despite extreme provocation in wake of the December 13 attack on the Indian Parliament... Back to the top
Lanka favours strengthening SAARC Convention on terrorism
 Press Trust of India, Kathmandu,Saturday, January 05, 2002. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga today strongly favoured strengthening the SAARC Convention on terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the US also the December 13 terrorist attack on Indian Parliament... Back to the top
India, Pak finally give peace a chance
 Times of India, 06 January 2002. It got as good as it could get on Saturday at the Saarc summit in Kathmandu... Back to the top
For a durable peace
 Frontline - - JOHN CHERIAN, 05 January 2002. RANIL WICKREMASINGHE, Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister, made a three-day official visit to New Delhi starting December 22, accompanied by Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando and Minister for Economic Reconstruction, Science and Technology Ashoka Milinda Moragoda... Back to the top
The Tigers' soft image
 Frontline - V. SURYANARAYAN , 05 January 2001. "The Tamil national question, which has assumed the characteristic of a civil war, is essentially a political issue... Back to the top
Colombo concern over plot to kill PM proves baseless
 Gulf_News, 05 January 2001. Sri Lanka government concerns of a possible assassination bid on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe by a clandestine army hit-squad appeared to fizzle out as military top brass accepted responsibility for a secret armoury police stumbled upon on Wednesday night... Back to the top
Sri Lanka's spin magician
 BBC South Asia, 06 January 2002. After his latest astonishing performance, BBC Sport Online profiles Sri Lankan spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan... Back to the top
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