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Since the British Foreign Minister has now publicly admitted on behalf
of his Government that Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is “quite prepared to go ahead with acts of genocide,” then under Article I of the Genocide Convention, the British government has a legal obligation “to prevent” this expected genocide of the Tamils [...]

Lahore, Feb 26 : In a bid to stake a stronger claim for the hosting rights of the Champions Trophy, Sri Lanka has offered to stage the entire tournament at Dambulla instead of Colombo to ease security apprehensions.

The U.N. Security Council will get a briefing on the situation in Sri Lanka on Friday, Inner City Press, reported Senior Reporter of UN based news agency, Inner City Press (ICP), Thursday. The UN briefing comes in the wake of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, telling British Parliament on Tuesday that Britain refrained from encouraging [...]

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka may need a bailout from international donors to help pay its debts as the island’s 26- year civil war draws to a close.

A family man from Aavarangkaal East in Puththoor sought protection to his life with Chunnaakam police due to death threats by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers, Thursday. He had managed to escape arrest by SLA during a cordon and search conducted in his village after which his wife had tried to commit suicide, he told [...]

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) — Bulletins were issued by organizations in Kuwait and Sri Lanka on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Vaazhaichcheanai police recovered Thursday around 10:00 a.m the body of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMV) person in charge of Vaakaneari, from Ottuveli in their division in a decomposed state, informed by the public. The victim had died due to the injury caused by being hit with a stone, Vaazhaichcheanai district medical officer, Dr. Atchuthan, [...]

The wife of Chudaroli (Sudar Oli) Editor who was ‘abducted’ first and later claimed ‘arrested’ by the Sri Lankan Police, told media Thursday night that her husband had been attacked on his head and heels inside the white-van by the abductors. Meanwhile, Vithyatharan was dumped at Demattagoda by the abductors, Police told Mrs. Kala [...]

Is it possible in today’s context to be both a Tamil and a Sri Lankan? I think it is, provided our leaders are statesmen enough to treat all communities as equal and guarantee this equality both in practice and constitutionally. Only time will tell whether the Sinhala political leadership can stop playing games of one-upmanship [...]

Ea’raavoor police recovered Monday night the body of the female hostel warden in Eastern University and the Judicial Medical Officer who performed the post mortem examination of the body declared it was a case of suicide, sources in Ea’raavoor said. Relatives of the woman, however, said they suspect she had been murdered and accused the [...]

The Editor of the Tamil daily Sudaroli N. Vidyakaran was arrested, by the Terrorist Investigation Di..

We have in this country some kind of toads (gembas) which love to live indoor. Even if they are ..

The war heroes who have entered the Puthukudiyiruppu town are successfully expediting operations to ..

South Asia Textiles Limited, a BOI company will soon list in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), t..

NEW DELHI: India is to send an emergency medical unit to Sri Lanka to help civilians wounded in the current conflict, an external Affairs Ministry spokesman said yesterday.

NEW DELHI: India and Sri Lanka have agreed to work together to address the urgent medical needs of civilians caught in the conflict zone in the country.

Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe have agreed to postpone their one-day series next month because of issues raised by the proposed broadcaster.

Expressing extreme shock at today’s forcible arrest of Vithyatharan, the editor of Sudar Oli, a Colombo-based Tamil daily, the Reporters without Borders (RSF), a Paris-based media watchdog, sought gurantee of safety of the arrested Editor from Sri Lanka’s Media minister, Mr. Laxman Yapa, a press release issued by RSF said.

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka may need a bailout from international donors to help pay its debts as the island’s 26- year civil war draws to a close.

“We, the undersigned leaders of workers’ parties, demand that the government of Sri Lanka stop attacks that can destroy thousands of Tamils and agree to a ceasefire with the LTTE to start discussions in order to install an interim government for the Tamil homeland,” said a resolution passed Wednesday at the International Committee of the [...]

Since the British Foreign Minister has now publicly admitted on behalf of his Government that Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is “quite prepared to go ahead with acts of genocide,” then under Article I of the Genocide Convention, the British government has a legal obligation “to prevent” this expected genocide of the Tamils by GoSL, [...]

The U.N. Security Council will get a briefing on the situation in Sri Lanka on Friday, Inner City Press, reported Senior Reporter of UN based news agency, Inner City Press (ICP), Thursday. The UN briefing comes in the wake of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, telling British Parliament on Tuesday that Britain refrained from encouraging [...]

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed two Tamil civilians Wednesday night in two separate shootings. A family man was gunned down around 8:30 p.m in Vellaave’li police division while a farmer was shot and killed in Vavu’natheevu police division Wednesday night, in Batticaloa district, according to police sources.

Source: UNOSAT Sri Lanka - Analysis summary of satellite imagery acquired on 5, 18-19 February 2009 over the government-declared “Civilian Safe Zone” (CSZ) in the Mulattivu district of northern Sri Lanka: There are …

Source: UNOSAT Sri Lanka - Analysis summary of satellite imagery acquired on 5, 18-19 February 2009 over the government-declared “Civilian Safe Zone” (CSZ) in the Mulattivu district of northern Sri Lanka: There are …

A family man from Aavarangkaal East in Puththoor sought protection to his life with Chunnaakam police due to death threats by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers, Thursday. He had managed to escape arrest by SLA during a cordon and search conducted in his village after which his wife had tried to commit suicide, he told [...]

Source: UNOSAT Sri Lanka - Analysis summary of satellite imagery
acquired on 5, 18-19 February 2009 over the government-declared “Civilian Safe Zone” (CSZ) in the Mulattivu district of northern Sri Lanka: There are …

Four policemen and a civilian were injured when a police jeep collided with a passenger bus at a crossroad in Jaffna town Thursday around 8:00 a.m, sources in Jaffna said. All the injured were admitted to Jaffna Teaching Hospital and one of the policemen has been discharged from the hospital after treatment.

Feb 26, Anuradhapura: Sri Lanka government has allocated nearly Rs. 3 billion to buy the maize harvest in this season.

Feb 26, Colombo: Sri Lankan government sent another group of nurses today to Vavuniya for the care of the Internally Displaced Persons living in welfare centers.

Feb 26, Colombo: Following the announcement of the date for the polls in Western Provincial Council this afternoon, the main political parties in Sri Lanka are gearing up for election campaigns.

Feb 26, Trincomalee: Another stock of essential food items was shipped from Trincomalee Harbour to civilians trapped in Mullaitivu yesterday evening, the Sri Lankan government said.

Feb 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka government has initiated a special air service between Katunayake and Nepali capital Kathmandu, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said.

Feb 26, Mt. Lavinia: The Mount Lavinia magistrate today remanded Ceylinco Group Chairman Lalith Kothalawela and another director over the alleged fraud at the collapsed Golden Key Credit Card Company.

(Lanka-e-News, Feb. 26, 2009, 6.30 PM) Time has began to save our children from special horror and terror President Mahinda Rajapakse determined on erasing of recruitment of Children for using armed…

Feb 26, Trincomalee: Two of the civilians evacuated and admitted to the Trincomalee Hospital by the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) have succumbed to their injuries on Tuesday night, the Police said.

Senior Politician and the Parliamentary Group Leader of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) R. Sampanthan on Wednesday described the so-called ‘investigation’ by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) as “unwarranted interference in my freedom of thought,” in a letter addressed to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mr. Sampanthan further said that there is “clearly a [...]

Muralitharan - poor figures. Pakistan and Sri Lanka criticised the lifeless wicket prepared for the drawn first Test here, with captains fearing such tracks will turn five-day cricket dull and make bowlers an endangered species.

Feb 26, Colombo: The Foreign Ministers of SAARC Member States will meet in Colombo tomorrow for its 31st Inter-Summit Session, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced.

Agencies Vavuniya, (SL) Feb 26: The Tamil Tigers gave V Rasamalar no choice in how she would die — the separatist rebels told her she would die alongside them in Sri Lanka’s war zone. But the mother of two escaped heavy fighting and fled to an army-controlled area.

. Lalith Kothalawala Chairmen of Celinco group has been remanded for allegation of Golden Key credit..

Feb 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka government has decided to grant approval to employees to obtain 30% of their Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF) as a loan in case of urgent cash necessity.

The uncontradicted testimony of Dr. Anna Neistat, Human Rights Watch, in Tuesday’s U.S. Foreign Relations Subcommittee Hearings of Sri Lanka concluded that the “Sri Lankan Armed Forces are guilty of war crimes, including the indiscriminate shelling of areas packed with displaced Tamil civilians and of hospitals; the use of imprecise multi-barrel rocket launchers; acute or [...]

Feb 26, Colombo: Lanka Cement Corporation, a giant cement manufacturer in the country is planning to build two floating cement factories on the sea.

Feb 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka police this morning arrested N. Vidyadaran, the Chief Editor of ‘Sudar Oli’, a leading Tamil newspaper in Sri Lanka.

Feb 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka main opposition, the United National Party (UNP) has appointed a seven-member committee to carry out their campaign…

India Thursday said it would send a full-fledged emergency medical unit to help civilians wounded in the conflict in Sri Lanka and work with Colombo to spur reconstruction process in that country.

Feb 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake today decided to hold the Western Provincial Council poll on April 25th.

New Delhi - India is to send an emergency medical unit to Sri Lanka to help civilians wounded in the current conflict, a spokesman for India’s External Affairs Ministry said Thursday. India and Sri Lanka have agreed to work together to address the u…

During a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama today (26 February 2009), French Foreign Minister Dr. Bernard Kouchner expressed his happiness at the conflict in the North of Sri Lanka coming to a conclusion and inquired on how best humanitarian assistance could be extended by France.

Armed persons and men in police uniform who arrived in three white vans Thursday morning abducted Nadesapillai Vithyatharan, 58, the prominent editor of Jaffna-based Uthayan daily and Colombo-based Chudaroli, eyewitnesses told TamilNet. The abduction comes six days after Mr. Vithyatharan was grilled by the Sri Lankan Terrorist Investigation Department (TID). The TID had questioned [...]

While assuring that terrorism would be eradicated, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that his Government has taken simultaneous action to fight and free children from being robots of terror.

COLOMBO – Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in the battle for the last urban area still in the hands of the guerrillas, the defence ministry said Thursday.

(Lanka-e-News 26.Feb.2009 5.20PM) Reporters Without Borders said they are extremely shocked by today’s arrest of N. Vithyatharan, the editor of Sudar Oli, a Colombo-based…

(Lanka-e-news 26.Feb.2009, 5.30p.m.) Mr. Lalith Kothalawala Chairmen of Celinco group has been remanded for allegation of Golden Key credit card fraud by the Mount…

(Lanka-e-News 26.Feb.2009 6.10PM) A swimming pool which is believe to be used by the high profile LTTE leaders have been located by the troops of 58 Division advancing towards..

The JVP charged yesterday that the government was planning to bring in a host of new taxes and privatise state institutions by using the election victories.

The issue of Indian fishermen being reportedly killed by the Sri Lankan Navy will be taken up by Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed with the island government during his visit to Colombo for the SAARC meet at this month end.

(Lanka-e-News 24.Feb.2009 4.00PM) Concerned over the ‘hostilities’ towards civilians in the conflict-hit northern part of Sri Lanka, the United States has asked…

Media watchdog RSF say it is shocked by the arrest of Sudar Oli editor N. Vidyatharan. He was not abducted as police told media earlier but taken in for questioning by the police