newslanka.org

Sri Lanka completed a series whitewash over Zimbabwe with a 19-run victory in the fifth and final ODI at Harare Sports Club, but, not for the first time in the last week, Zimbabwe threw away a gilt-edged chance of winning within sight of the finishing line.

Muttiah Muralitharan took five wickets Sunday to lead Sri Lanka to a 19-run win over Zimbabwe and a 5-0 sweep in the limited-overs series.

Sri Lankan armed forces resume their offensive against the LTTE after a three-day lull because of monsoon rains.

Nov 30, Rome: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Rome, Italy today for a one day visit on his way to Ankara, Turkey.

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lankan government will send another food convoy to the civilians in the un-cleared areas of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, Essential Services Commissioner S.B. Divaratne said.

Zimbabwean wicket keeper Tatenda Taibu dives after Sri Lankan batsman Jahan Mubarak’s shot. Sri Lanka rounded out a 5-0 series victory in Zimbabwe on Sunday, winning by just 19 runs.

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lankan ground troops supported by air assaults on LTTE targets continued their advances ahead of the northern fronts amid heavy resistance from the Tigers, the military said.

Sri Lanka completed a series whitewash over Zimbabwe after winning the fifth one-day international by 19 runs in Harare today.

Sri Lanka rounded out a 5-0 series victory in Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club here Sunday, winning by just 19 runs after struggling to 152 all out having been put into bat.

Kodikaamam police recovered Saturday a male body with gunshot injuries floating in a pond in Va’ra’ni in Thenmaraadchi on information given by local residents. The victim appears to be between 30 to 35 years of age, the police said.

Sri Lanka rounded out a 5-0 series victory in Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club here Sunday, winning by just 19 runs after struggling to 152 all out having been put into bat.

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army is to have a court martial against a Major General for the first time in its history, Army sources say.

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka President’s office anticipates a meeting between the President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe this week.

Emphasising the Government`s priority to defeat the LTTE until the last Tiger is killed to re-establ..

Sri Lanka`s military on Sunday resumed a major offensive aimed at capturing the political capital of..

Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 19 runs to win the one-day series 5-0.

SRI Lanka rounded out a 5-0 series victory in Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club, winning by just 19 runs after struggling to 152 all-out having been put into bat.

Five Media Collective condemn the censorship imposed by SLBC on BBC language programmes on 27 November.

A civilian was shot dead in Batticaloa hours after a massive search operation by the police.

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a Tamil farmer Saturday around 9:30 p.m in Ka’luvaangchchikudi police division at his house in Ward 12, Kuruma’nve’li area. This is the first killing after a 12-hour police-curfew was clamped down in Batticalao district, taking place just after three hours after the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) cordon and search operation [...]

Sri Lanka Supreme Court suspends Asantha de Mel holding the post of the chairman of the CPC.

Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field first in the fifth and final ODI against Sri Lanka here on Sunday. Sri Lanka lead the series 4-0.

Sri Lanka completed a series whitewash over Zimbabwe with a 19-run victory in the fifth and final ODI at Harare Sports Club, but, not for the first time in the last week, Zimbabwe threw away a gilt-edged chance of winning within sight of the finishing line.

HARARE - Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field first in the fifth and final ODI against Sri Lanka here on Sunday. Sri Lanka lead the series 4-0.

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers that attacked the hamlet of Internally Displaced Persons bordering Piramanthanaa’ru and Uzhavanoor in the early hours of Saturday have deployed Russian made ODAB-500 PM cluster bombs in their indiscriminate attack that killed three civilians, including a child, eyewitnesses told TamilNet’s Vanni correspondent on Saturday. Seven children were among the [...]

COLOMBO: Despite being high on education and other social indices, at least 60 per cent of all women in Sri Lanka have experienced domestic violence, an international study has said.

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan security forces have resumed their offensive to capture the political capital of Tamil Tiger rebels after heavy monsoon rains began subsiding, the defence ministry said Sunday.

Kandy and its suburbs have been identified as the second most Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-threatened area after Colombo, according to intelligence reports, according to Sunday Times.

Calls for independent management for Sri Lanka's state-managed Employees Provident Fund are gaining more support, with less than half of respondents to a survey saying returns were reasonable , an influential weekly has said.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will shortly appoint a high level three-member committee to address the issue of devolution of powers to the Eastern Provincial Council in terms of the 13th Amendment, Minister of Social Service, Roads and IT Education of the Council M.L.A.M. Hisbullah told the Sunday Observer.

Although the Department of Registration of Persons (DRP) called upon the school authorities to encourage GCE (O/L) students to obtain National Identity Cards, only 200,000 students had done so during the past six months.

The Environment and Natural Resources Minister came under criticism by UNP MP [...]

Seventy lorry loads of food items received from India for civilians held virtually hostage by the LTTE will leave Vavuniya tomorrow (December 1), the Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services said.

Certain high ranking Police officers in Ratnapura are allegedly involved in illegal gem mining operations in Ratnapura. A source reliably learns that a large scale illegal gem mining operation using heavy earth moving equipment is taking place in the Paradise estate in Kuruvita, Ratnapura. Apparently this racket is operating with the full support of some [...]

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Railway will commence an intercity train from Colombo to Nanu Oya in the hill country tomorrow.

Nov 30, Colombo: A new Muslim party has been formed by Minister of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Risath Bathiyutheen.

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s state owned Sinhala Sunday newspaper Silumina reported that India had advised the Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe to resign from the post and allow a like of S.B. Dissanayake to come to the leadership.

3 LTTE suspects arrested, 123 detained for more inquiries out of 11,963 persons screened in Batticaloa cordon & search Saturday-Defence Ministry-JNW

3 LTTE suspects arrested, 123 detained for more inquiries out of 11,963 persons screened in Batticaloa cordon & search Saturday-Defence Ministry-JNW

“The Colombo government is embarked upon a killing spree of children and women in refugee camps who are already victims of war, displacement, cyclone and floods. This act of ’state terrorism’ is in what way less in importance to the deplorable Mumbai killings, for failing to attract condemnation and action from the International Community,” asks [...]

Hashan Tillakaratne, the former captain, has said Sri Lankan cricket is going though “the dark ages” and that an elected body is the way forward.

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers that attacked the hamlet of Internally Displaced Persons bordering Piramanthanaa’ru and Uzhavanoor in the early hours of Saturday have deployed Russian made ODAB-500 PM cluster bombs in their indiscriminate attack that killed three civilians, including a child, eyewitnesses told TamilNet’s Vanni correspondent on Saturday. Seven children were among the [...]

The Kandy police Saturday took three Tamils including a woman into
custody in a cordon and search operation carried out within the
municipal limits of Kandy town. Police sources said the arrested failed to
prove their identity and justify their presence in the location.

The body of an unidentified male person with gunshot injuries was
found along Mannaar-Thaalvupaadu main road Saturday morning. The
Mannar police rushed to the site to hold inquiry, and transferred the body
to the Mannaar general
hospital.

(Lanka-e-News-29th Nov 2008-11.30PM) The Sri Lanka Embassy in Thailand has requested the Malyasian embassy in Thailand to expedite visa applications for Sri Lankans stranded in the country to move across to neighbouring Malyasia for onward travel….

Floods caused by days of heavy rain had killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said on Saturday.

Unidentified gunmen forcibly took away a Tamil family man from his house in Pangkudaave’li area in Karadiyanaa’ru police division Friday around 12:00 p.m and shot him killed, police said. Meanwhile, a Tamil youth shot and seriously injured by unknown armed men in Ea’raavoor police division Thursday night succumbed to his wounds Friday night in Batticaloa [...]

Cargills (Ceylon) PLC was ranked among the Top Ten Best Corporate Citizen’s in Sri Lanka for the second consecutive year at the recently concluded Best Corporate Citizen of the Year - 2008 organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

The history of tourism in Sri Lanka goes back to the nomadic age. In that age, people migrated from one place to another in order to earn a living and discover new places.

Two seismic stations are expected to be established in Sri Lanka under a tripartite (three-party) cooperation agreement between the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry, Disaster Management and Human Rights Ministry and Helmholtz Centre, Postdam (GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences).

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan Embassy is in contact with Malysian authorities to send three hundred Sri Lankans stranded in Thailand via Malaysia.

Following the killing of 23 innocent civilians within the past 4 days by armed men in Batticaloa and mounting international attention on the terror prevailing in the East, a 12-hour police-curfew has been clamped down in Batticaloa district from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday to launch search operations.

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 2008, 9.45PM) The Batticaloa district local government chairmen’s federation informed the President Mahinda Rajapakse via Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillaiyan that the Army was…

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 2008, 10.00 PM) A police curfew has been imposed in Batticaloa district since this morning (29).

Police media spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekara said that the aim pf the curfew was to conduct a special…

(Lanka-e-News, November 29, 2008, 10.00 PM) Another Minister is reportedly getting ready for a swindle like hedging that took away $ 700 million from the country.

The Minister cum coconut mill owner…

At least four people were killed and more than 71,000 displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers attacked a refugee camp of Internally Displaced People bordering Piramanthanaa’ru and Uzhavaoor (Tharmapuram) in Ki’linochchi district in the early hours of Saturday around 1:35 a.m. Medical authorities at Tharmapuram said three persons were killed. Two, a 5-year-old child and an 80-year-old man, died at the hospital. At least [...]

Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers attacked a refugee camp with Internally Displaced People in Naathankudiyiruppu in Kallaa’ru, Ki’linochchi in the early hours of Saturday around 1:35 a.m. Two dead bodies, including a 5-year-old child, were brought to Tharmapuram hospital so far, according to medical sources. 19 civilians including seven children below 10 years [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said today. Advertisement: C & M Ford Sales Inc. It’s not just a truck - [...]