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Sri Lanka troops take over rebel headquarters (Vietnam Net)
Sri Lanka's government troops on Friday wrested from rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) control the town of Kilinochchi, their former administrative headquarters, the government military sources said.
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Sri Lanka troops capture rebel capital (KABC-TV Los Angeles)
Government forces captured the Tamil Tigers' de facto capital in northern Sri Lanka.
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South Asia News in brief: 25 December–7 January (SciDev.net)
Below is a round up of news from or about South Asia for the period 25 December–7 January 2009. India to launch weather satellite India plans to launch a weather satellite jointly developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation and the French space agency CNES in 2009. The Megha- Tropiques satellite will analyse tropical climate data and causes of cyclones and monsoons.
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PM hints at more international pressure on Pak (Hindustan Times)
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TRAPPED MOISTURE (The Hindu)
It is the incoming low pressure systems (in the form of westerly troughs and disturbances) that set up the instability in a seasonally ‘stable’ weather regime brought about by the anti-cyclone.
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African Tea Prices Rise 9.3% at Last 2008 Kenya Sale (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- African tea prices rose to an eight- week high in Kenya at the last 2008 weekly sale in Mombasa, according to the founding broker of the auctions.
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Sri Lanka: NGOs Consortium urges government for relief to affected in Jaffna (TamilNet)
“More than 250,000 people affected in the recent cyclone and floods have only been issued relief sufficient for a week costing less than Rs. 500 per family,“ the Consortium of Non-governmental Organizations in Jaffna district said in an appeal to the President of Sri Lanka submitted through the Government Agent (GA) Jaffna, sources in Jaffna said.
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PMK may quit UPA over Lankan unrest (The Economic Times)
PMK charged the Centre with “humiliating” Tamils.
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WET ALONG COAST (The Hindu)
Coastal areas of Tamil Nadu have been witnessing isolated rains over the past few days as a persisting trough of low pressure directed streams of moisture emptying into the region.
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PILOT SHOWERS (The Hindu)
According to the Global Forecast System (GFS) model run by the Climate Prediction Centre of the US National Weather Services, the Sri Lankan and Tamil Nadu coast might witness the first few showers of an emerging wet weather during the week ending January 9.
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