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May 29 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s inflation held near a five-year low in May, giving the central bank room to continue cutting interest rates to revive a slowing economy.

More than 20,000 civilians were killed in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war — nearly three times previous estimates, The Times newspaper in Britain reported Friday.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - Switzerland Proud homeowners stand outside their brightly colored houses in Thetativu, Batticaloa District. The rows of bright blue, orange, green and pink houses stand out in sharp contrast to the stark, almost …

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has for the first time made public its heavy casualties from the last phase of the 25-year war, and the U.N. chief flew to the island on Friday to push for a rapid end to a lingering humanitarian crisis.

UN has access to all north IDP camps & some restrictions eased such as vehicles allowed in, says UN Resident Coordinator Buhne-JNW

The root of Sri Lanka’s two bloodiest insurgencies, one led by the People’s Liberation Front (or the JVP) and the other more prolonged and deadlier led by the LTTE, had much to do with regional disparities than language, race or religious differences.

“This is one of the most unprincipled and shameless resolutions ever
adopted by any body of the United Nations in the history of that now
benighted Organization. It would be as if the U.N. Human Rights Council
had congratulated the Nazi government for the “liberation” of the Jews
in Poland after its illegal and genocidal invasion of that country [...]

More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final days of Sri Lanka’s military operation to defeat Tamil Tigers rebels, The Times newspaper reported on Friday.

Source: Reuters LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final days of Sri Lanka’s military operation to defeat Tamil Tigers rebels, The Times newspaper reported on Friday.

Sri …

Sri Lanka’s cricketers will play together for the first time since surviving a horrific terror attack in March when they take part in the World Twenty20 tournament in England.

Janashakthi Insurance has recorded the highest 1st Quarter General Insurance growth percentage in 20..

David sent Goliath reeling in Geneva on Wednesday. Little Lanka, preening herself on defeating t..

Plans are afoot to bring down Sinhalese government officials from South to conduct Jaffna Municipal Council elections, sources in Jaffna said. Efforts are underway to elect a Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Mayor to Jaffna which was once held by Alfred Duraiappa, representing SLFP, the sources added.

Sri Lanka’s cricketers will play together for the first time since surviving a horrific terror attack in March when they take part in the World Twenty20 in England. The June 5-21 event is the first o

May 29 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka says DNA tests confirm that Villupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is dead, after rebel claims he survived the battle where his last forces were defeated.

May 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s ruling political party, the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), has decided to contest in the upcoming elections for the Jaffna Municipal Council and Vavuniya Urban Council.

(Lanka-e-News 28.May.2009 11.30AM) Sri Lanka has vehemently condemned the attack by a group of unruly demonstrators on the Canadian High Commission in Colombo yesterday(27)…

Paramilitary men operating with Sri Lanka Army (SLA) arriving in a black pick-up vehicle Thursday around 9:00 p.m at the house of a Tamil three-wheel driver abducted him, in Vaazhaichcheanai in Batticaloa district, according to a complaint lodged with Vaazhaichcheanai police. The relatives of the driver said that the paramilitary men had said in Sinhalese [...]

Former principal of St. Patrick’s College, Jaffna, Rev. Fr. Francis Joseph, aged seventy, who had been serving in Vanni with six other priests in Puthumaaththa’lan is reported missing, according to the request made to ICRC by Jaffna Bishop House to find his whereabouts, Thursday. Meanwhile, one of the six priests, Rev. Fr. Mariampillai Thatheus Sarathjeevan, [...]

Pakistan’s military commanders must be eyeing Sri Lanka with envy as they struggle to defeat the Taleban in the northwestern region of Swat. Perhaps Nato officers in Afghanistan are too.

Bodies of sixty elderly persons and six babies, members of displaced
families from Vanni region due to military operation by the Sri Lanka
Army (SLA) and sheltered transit centres in Vavuniyaa were buried in
one burial grave in Poonthoaddam general cemetery in Vavuniyaa Sunday
morning, media reports said.

A Tamil youth was critically injured when unidentified armed persons
arrived in a three wheeler fired at him. They fled from the scene when
the neighbors shouted for assistance. The incident took place Tuesday
afternoon around 12:55 p.m. at New Chetty Street in Kotahena police
division in Colombo district, according to Police Spokesman Ranjit
Gunasekara. The injured has been identified [...]

Thavarajasingham Subash, 23, secretary to S.Jeyananthamoorthy,
Batticaloa district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian has
been reported missing mysteriously since Tuesday early morning around
2:15 a.m after he arrived in Katunayake from Chennai airport in
Tamilnadu. Katunayake Police took into custody on his arrival from
Chennai. Later it was reported that he was released. However he failed
to return home thereafter, according [...]

Sri Lanka celebrated a major diplomatic victory over Western nations determined to investigate alleged war crimes committed during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

President Barack Obama pledged to bring change to Washington, but he is continuing one of the capital’s most entrenched traditions: rewarding political supporters with ambassadorships.

Sri Lanka’s military says it has proved conclusively through DNA testing that Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed last week.

COLOMBO: The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday dropped a Swiss-EU draft resolution calling for an investigation into possible war crimes during Sri Lanka’s recently-concluded war on terrorism and adopted Sri Lanka’s …

A disease outbreak in Tamil refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka is imminent, aid agency Christian Aid said Wednesday. Conditions in refugee camps remained desperately poor and there are 30 refugees living in five-person tents, the NGO said, as the overcrowded camps struggle to contend with the influx of civilians. Robin Greenwood, director of the [...]

Plans to relocate the Vanni detainees held in schools turned into internment camps in Jaffna peninsula stall due to the reluctance of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) authorities to allow relocation activities to proceed as planned, Non-government Organizations sources in Jaffna said. SLA is particularly reluctant to establish permanent internment camps for the Vanni detainees in [...]

Traders in Jaffna peninsula have to bribe government officials to expedite transport of goods from Colombo in lorries through A9 land route, representatives of Jaffna Traders Union (JTU) told the visiting delegation of Colombo Chamber of Commerce, Wednesday, in Jaffna. Despite wide publicity by Sri Lanka government that the A9 route is available for public [...]

The parents of the Tamil Tigers’ dead leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, are in a camp for displaced people in the north of Sri Lanka, the army says

Sri Lanka’s military said Thursday it has proved conclusively through DNA testing that Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed last week, after supporters refused to believe a government video showing the leader’s dead body.

(Lanka-e-News, May 28, 2009, 10.55 AM) Asia led by Sri Lanka won the battle between Europe and Asia at theUN Human Rights Council.

The two resolutions set forth in the UN Human Rights Council…

(Lanka-e-News, May 28, 2009, 10.55 AM) Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda says that alarmed forces, police and civil defense force contributed…

(Lanka-e-News, May 28, 2009, 4.10 PM) A special police team arrested LTTE women’s political wing leader Subramaniam Shivathai alias Thmalini as she was in a…

(Lanka-e-News, May 28, 2009, 4.10 PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse said to the cabinet yesterday (27) that the parents of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran are living in a welfare village now…

(Lanka-e-News, May 28, 2009, 6.40 PM) Ranil Wickramasinghe, the leader of the United National Party (UNP) has sent a message to the President Mahinda Rajapakse informing that he will not contest the Presidential…

(Lanka-e-News, May 28, 2009, 6.40 PM) All weapons captured from the LTTE in the Ealam War IV that started from Mavilaru in 2006…

Source: IRIN Aid workers are calling for unfettered access to more than 40 camps for internally displaced
persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka’s north.

May 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka has relaxed restrictions on motor vehicles in centers for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Vavuniya, where the country’s largest IDP center is located.

May 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka has relaxed restrictions on motor vehicles in centers for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Vavuniya, where the country’s largest IDP center is located.

May 28, Colombo: The political wing leader of the LTTE’s women force Subramaniam Shivathai alias Thamilini was arrested by a special police team at a welfare village in Vavuniya, Police spokesperson SSP Ranjith Gunasekara said.

May 28, Colombo: The political wing leader of the LTTE’s women force Subramaniam Shivathai alias Thamilini was arrested by a special police team at a welfare village in Vavuniya, Police spokesperson SSP Ranjith Gunasekara said.

May 28, Colombo: The Sri Lanka government is planning to revise the electricity tariffs once again.

May 28, Colombo: The Sri Lanka government is planning to revise the electricity tariffs once again.

May 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka said the remaining LTTE cadres may carry out hit-and-run attacks. However, he assured that the LTTE can’t regroup militarily. “We have destroyed the LTTE leadership’s first, second and third rungs. The LTTE is over.”

May 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka said the remaining LTTE cadres may carry out hit-and-run attacks. However, he assured that the LTTE can’t regroup militarily. “We have destroyed the LTTE leadership’s first, second and third rungs. The LTTE is over.”

Sri Lanka on Thursday said a vote at the U.N. Human Rights Council had vindicated its prosecution of the war against the Tamil Tigers, and dealt a blow to Western calls for a probe into possible rights violations.

The UN’s rights chief and campaigners pressed on Thursday for an independent probe be held into the conduct of the war in Sri Lanka after the world body’s top rights assembly rejected calls for an inquiry.

The government has decided to engage with the countries which voted against the resolution on “Assistance to Sri Lanka in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,” at the special session on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Gamini Lokuge, Minister of Sports and Public Recreation together with Maithripala Sirisena, Minister of Agriculture, Agrarian Services and the Chairman of the Interim Committee, Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) has instructed Kiran Atapattu, Secretary Interim Committee SLASU to make arrangements to form a national swimming squad as early as possible and to provide them [...]

LONDON: Pakistan's supply of high-tech military equipment and positioning of some of its highly trained army officers in Sri Lanka played a key role in the ultimate defeate of Tamil Tigers, Pakistani media has claimed.

Source: Reuters By Shihar Aneez and C. Bryson Hull

COLOMBO, May 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Thursday said a vote at the U.N. Human Rights Council had vindicated its prosecution of the war against the Tamil Tigers, …

The Government has decided to offer two ministerial posts shortly to its latest alliance partner, the National Freedom Front (NFF), to get the party involved in what is termed as post-conflict development work.

Uva Provincial Council will be dissolved at midnight today. The relevant gazette notification would be issued by Governor Nanda Mathew at midnight tonight. Accordingly, the election for the Uva PC would be held in the latter part of July.

May 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army medical experts today confirmed that DNA from the body of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran matches DNA from his deceased son, Charles Anthony.

The member for Kotte Municipal Council who was appointed to fill a vacancy has died. Mr. Siripala Cooray, UPFA member died moments after he attended the session after his appointment.

May 28, Colombo: The National Building Research Institute today issued a warning on possible landslides in seven districts in Sri Lanka.

May 28, Colombo: Nandimithra Ekanayake, currently a ruling party member in the Central Provincial Council, has been named as a parliamentarian for Matale District by gazette notification.

May 28, Colombo: The Sri Lanka government will pay special attention to the elderly, maimed and injured among the internally displaced persons (IDPs), as they cannot fend for themselves.