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One hundred and seventy three internally displaced students currently
being detained in camps in Vavuniyaa, which are described as
“internment camps” are qualified to enter the Vavuniyaa campus of the
Jaffna University for the forthcoming academic year.
Registration of these students by university authorities is to
commence Wednesday in camps where they are detained, education sources in Vavuniyaa told media.

July 28 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s rupee may rise 1.2 percent by June 2010 as a $2.6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund bolsters the country’s finances, Standard Chartered Plc said.

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka - Pakistan are banking on a fresh set of players to deliver as they seek to avenge Sri Lanka’s Test victory in a one-day series starting here on Thursday.

Dilshan - battered, bruised and sidelined. Pakistan are banking on a fresh set of players to deliver as they seek to avenge Sri Lanka’s Test victory in the ODI series, starting on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, July 28 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel , India’s top mobile operator, said on Tuesday it had crossed 1 million subscribers in Sri Lanka after launching services in the Indian Ocean island country in January.

NEW DELHI, July 28 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel , India’s top mobile operator, said on Tuesday it had crossed 1 million subscribers in Sri Lanka after launching services in the Indian Ocean island country in January.

Nepal and Sri Lanka are signing an air service agreement within two weeks to resume direct flights between the two countries by December, visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Talitha TB Kohana told P …..

Nepal and Sri Lanka are signing an air service agreement within two weeks to resume direct flights between the two countries by December.

A top United States official Monday visited the most presentable of the squalid, militarized camps in which Sri Lanka has interned three hundred thousand Tamils. “The United States remains deeply concerned about a range of issues where further progress is essential,” Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration from the US State Department [...]

INDIA and Sri Lanka have agreed to start a ferry service between Colombo and the southern Indian port of Cochin. The decision was taken during a meeting of transport ministers of South Asia in Colombo last week. The ferry service will be started soon probably over the next few months becaus …

COLOMBO, July 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s foreign currency reserves will be over $2.1 billion after the first tranche of the $2.6 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan comes in on Tuesday, the central bank chief economist said.

COLOMBO, July 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s foreign currency reserves will be over $2.1 billion after the first tranche of the $2.6 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan comes in on Tuesday, the central bank chief economist said.

COLOMBO, July 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s foreign currency reserves will be over $2.1 billion after the first tranche of the $2.6 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan comes in on Tuesday, the central bank chief economist said.

Sri Lanka has banned students from taking mobile phones to school following the suicide of a teenager disciplined for using her telephone, an education ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

SRI Lanka will be importing about 2.4M tonnes of coal a year to run its first coal-fired power plant that is scheduled to be operational in 2010. The power plant is being built by state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board in Puttalam on the north-west coast. T …

Whilst Sri Lanka’s government hailed its securing of an IMF loan for $2.6bn last week as a ‘victory’ and as indication of international support for its political and economic policies, the reality is the reverse. Sri Lanka has been compelled to accept not only painful economic and quasi-political obligations, but also the kind of external [...]

(Lanka-e-News, July 28, 2009, 9.30 AM) The U.S. said Sri Lanka must ensure the “prompt return” of about 280,000 Tamil refugees living in camps in the north since the defeat of the rebel…

(Lanka-e-News, July 28, 2009, 9.50 AM) Sri Lanka is looking at investments from India into key sectors to help hasten the ambitious rebuilding programme initiated by the Government, said P.M.Amza,…

Southern Provincial Council will be dissolved in the first week of August-govt official-JNW

Senior LTTE intelligence cadre arrested in Slave Island & 10kg explosives, suicide kit, four pressure mines found in Modera-Police Spokesman-JNW

No violence reported ahead of Jaffna, Vavuniya MC elections Aug 8 with slow start to campaigning-PAFFREL. 7 minor incidents reported-CAFFE-JNW

The USD 2.6 billion Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) Facility will strengthen future economic activities i..

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated ..

July 28 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. said Sri Lanka must ensure the “prompt return” of about 280,000 Tamil refugees living in camps in the north since the defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May ended a 26-year civil war.

Whilst Sri Lankas government hailed its securing of an IMF loan for $2.6bn last week as a victory and as indication of international support for its political and economic policies, the reality is the reverse. Sri Lanka has been compelled to accept not only painful economic and quasi-political obligations, but also the kind of external [...]

The Eastern Provincial Minister of Agriculture Mr.Thuraiappah
Navaratnarajah and two others were allowed in personal bail in a sum
of rupees One Hundred Thousand each when they surrendered in Kalmunai
Magistrates’ Court Monday through his lawyer in an assault case. According to police reports to court the provincial minister and
two others were alleged to have assaulted [...]

Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal Monday fixed the order for August 24 in a
petition filed by leading opposition parliamentarians seeking the
court to order the authorities concerned to allow them to visit camps
located in Vavuniyaa where hundreds of thousands of Vanni internally
displaced people are detained by the Sri Lankan military.

Ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) conducted Sunday a large scale procession of vehicles organized by Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) in Jaffna town in which more than a thousand supporters participated, canvassing people to vote for the Betel symbol of UPFA, sources in Jaffna said. Meanwhile, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) which has also entered [...]

One hundred and seventy three students currently
being detained in camps described as
internment camps in Vavuniyaa, are qualified to enter the Vavuniyaa campus of the
Jaffna University for the forthcoming academic year.

Washington, D.C. Thursday, July 27, 2009 Ms. KAMATA: Good morning, everybody. I am Yoshiko Kamata of IMF Media Relations. Thank you very much for joining this morning’s conference call on Sri Lanka.

Quintus Perera - Only the knowledge based technology (ICT) could help eradicate poverty from this country and though some time ago English was considered as a language of imperialists, today they all have to accept that it has become world language and the best mode of communication among the countries and within countries [...]

The Sri Lanka Lawyers’ Cricket team left for England on Monday to participate in the 2nd Lawyers’ Cricket world Cup which will be held in Cambridge.

Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka addressing the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change South Asian Sub Regional Meeting in Colombo yesterday said Sri Lanka would propose three amendments to the Kyoto Protocol because the present Carbon Emission cut included in it was not enough to save humanity in future.

Japan will strengthen and expand trade ties with Sri Lanka in the tourism, fisheries, agriculture and aqua sports sectors.

July 27, Colombo: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is to facilitate the early return of Internally Displaced Persons…

July 27, Colombo: The United States announced today that it would contribute another US$ 8 million to support the resettlement and recovery efforts for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) sheltered in the camps in Vavuniya and elsewhere in the North.

On the invitation of Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain will be on an official visit to Sri Lanka from 28-30 July 2009.The visiting Prime Minister of Bahrain will hold bilateral talks with Sri Lanka President. The talks [...]

Mahela Udawatte and Chamara Kapugedera lifted Sri Lanka A to a huge total before another supreme knock from Umar Akmal drew the Pakistanis close

Quintus Perera - First Camellian Convent - Home for the Aged was blessed and declared open by His Grace Most Rev.Dr. Oswald Gomis, Archbishop of Colombo in Nayakakanda, Wattala.

The United States on Monday expressed concern over hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans displaced by war who are currently confined to military-run camps and pledged funds to help their resettlement.

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The International Monetary Fund in a conference call Monday defended its decision to provide a $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka despite strong opposition from several members of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations.

July 27 (Bloomberg) — The International Monetary Fund said its $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka is aimed at helping the island nation avert a balance of payments crisis by boosting the central bank’s reserves.

WASHINGTON, July 27 — The International Monetary Fund defended a US$2.6 billion (RM9.15 billion) loan to Sri Lanka today saying it is aware of human rights concerns by donors but the funding is needed to prevent a devastating balance of payments crisis. The loan was approved by the IMF board on Friday with opposition from [...]

Source: Reuters (Adds details from conference call, background) By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund defended a $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka on Monday saying it is …

Source: Reuters (Adds details from conference call, background)

By Lesley Wroughton

WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund defended a $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka on Monday saying it is …

July 27, Colombo: The first day of the postal voting for the upcoming Uva Provincial Council polls and local polls in the North ended this evening….

July 27, Colombo: The Colombo Magistrate Courts today ordered to remand three directors of the Finance and Guarantee Co. Ltd (F and G Co.), another affiliated company of the collapsed Ceylinco group.

July 27, Colombo: The first eco-friendly museum in Sri Lanka is to open tomorrow at the most famous Sigiriya rock fortress premises, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs announced.

July 27 Colombo: The Esala Festival of the most sacred Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy is to commence tonight by its first Perahera (procession) parading the streets in full traditional gear.

July 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka this morning released 1,883 army deserters, who were in several prisons, under a special pardon granted by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

July 27, Colombo: The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Sri Lanka today told the Anuradhapura Magistrate Courts that according to the main suspect the reason to assassinate the former opposition leader in North Central Province, Major General Janaka Perera was to avenge the sacrilege of Krishanthi Coomaraswamy in Jaffna and the mass killings in Chemmani [...]

July 27, Kandy: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today distributed Housing Entitlement Certificates for
the owners of the households affected by the Upper Kotmale Hydropower Project at the President’s House in Kandy.

Sri Lanka says that it is not allowing fishermen to use boats with engines over 25 hp in Mannar while fishermen say that even 25 hp boats are banned.

July 27, Colombo: The University of Kelaniya which was closed after a clash between students and villagers is to reopen on July 30th, its media director Prof. Mapa Thilakarathne said.

July 27, Colombo: The Sri Lanka Supreme Court today heard the petition filed by a group of opposition parliament members asking the courts to assert their rights to visit the welfare camps…

WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund defended a $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka on Monday saying it is aware of human rights concerns by donor countries but the funding is needed to ward off a devastating balance of payments crisis.

In move to create a well disciplined student population in the country, the Education Ministry is to issue a special circular that prevents students from bringing mobile phones to the schools.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed all Government officials involved in the Uthuru Wasanthaya (Vadakku Vasantham) Development Programme to take immediate steps to bring down the cost of living in Jaffna, the Governor of the Northern Province, Major General G.A. Chandrasiri said at a special meeting held in Colombo today (27).

President Mahinda Rajapaksa raising concern about the contents of television advertisements and their impact on school children yesterday said that he had conveyed the matter to the Cultural Affairs Minister.

(Lanka-e-News 27.July.2009 4.00PM) The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a 20-month Stand-By Arrangement for Sri Lanka in an amount equivalent…