"The year 2009 will be the year when our motherland would be finally liberated from the LTTE," President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

The President was speaking on victories achieved this year and goals for the new year to a gathering of religious dignitaries, intellectuals, professionals, politicians, artistes and others at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo yesterday (Dec. 22nd).

(Colombo-Lankapuvath) Vice Chancellor of the University of Kelaniya Prof. Sarath Amunugama said that one of the main objectives of a University is to focus on development and improve the knowledge of every citizen.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday completed its largest delivery of food to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Wanni region of northern Sri Lanka since humanitarian convoys began delivering food in October.

COLOMBO, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's government troops who are on the forward march in the island's north have captured a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) airstrip, defense officials said Wednesday.