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Hot air over first air-to-air attack

  • SLAF says it destroyed Tiger aircraft but heavy damages to personnel and property; 10 suicide cadres killed
  • LTTE claims no damage to aircraft; says 20 soldiers killed in pre-dawn raid
  • Air force says anti-aircraft radars intact
  • Cross fire in P’ment as UNP says dawn attacks casts government claims about rapid northern advance into doubt

The Sri Lanka Air Force yesterday claimed that it had destroyed the first LTTE aircraft during the Tigers’ pre-dawn attempted air raid on the SLAF Base in Vavuniya last morning. Addressing a press briefing, Air Force officials said that pilots had confirmed the plane had gone down over the jungles of Mullaitivu.

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Mahinda awards a world first business green
Sri Lanka’s top apparel exporter Brandix Lanka Limited has achieved a world first in eco-friendly manufacture becoming the first apparel manufacturer on the planet to achieve Platinum status under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system of the US Green Building Council. This historic achievement for Sri Lanka was acknowledged at the highest level yesterday, when Brandix CEO Ashroff Omar presented President Mahinda Rajapaksa with a plaque to mark this accomplishment. The Brandix Casualwear factory at Seeduwa is now the highest rated eco-friendly apparel factory in the world


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Development Bank for East a must

To assist economic resurgence in the Eastern Province

The need for an Eastern Development Bank has been further stressed recently at a gathering of chambers of commerce and industry in the province.

The indigenous business, industrial and agricultural communities in the micro, small and medium strata are showing their keenness to come into the mainstay of the economic activities that are going to be reviewed by the government along with the private sector in the liberated East.

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