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Sri Lanka’s High Court has sentenced a Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison after convicting him on terrorism charges, officials have said.

Aug 31, Colombo: The student of the ICT institute in Malabe has identified five of his assailants today in identification parades held before a magistrate.

Aug 01, Colombo: Figures released by Sri Lanka Central Bank’s Department of Census and Statistics on Monday showed that the annual average inflation in August fell to a single digit of 8.5 percent from a 10.4 percent in July.

Victims of an abduction and assault incident have identified suspected police personnel in parades.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka clinched second spot behind South Africa in the official rankings as they swept aside New Zealand by 96 runs in the final Test yesterday to sweep the series 2-0.

Aug 31, Colombo: The Colombo High Court today sentenced Sri Lankan Tamil journalist J. S. Tissanayagam to 20 years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and Emergency Regulations.

Aug 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights will be testing the pre-tsunami danger warning tower system Tuesday, September 1st.

Aug 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid a surprise visit to inspect the construction of the Peliyagoda Fish Market yesterday (30).

(Lanka-e-News, August 31, 2009, 7.15 PM) The decision taken by the former President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1983 to waive the housing loans taken under the National Housing…

(Lanka-e-News, August 31, 2009, 7.15PM) Over 10,000 refugees held in the IDP camps in Vavuniya have disappeared . The Vavuniya District Secretary has forwarded a report to the DIG north in this regard…

Aug 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Government has appointed a special committee to resolve the long standing dispute between Eastern Muslims and Tamils over the 1,000 of acres of paddy fields in Vakarai.

Aug 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara reclaimed his number-one spot on the ICC Test rankings following his brilliant performance against the New Zealand last week.

Vavuniyaa regional office of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) receives twenty-five to thirty written complaints daily by post from internally displaced inmates held in the internment camps in Vavuniyaa, according to an HRCSL official. The official further said IDPs held in camps or members of public who are expecting the services of [...]

Aug 31, Colombo: Starting election related violence ahead of the upcoming Southern provincial council polls, an unidentified group has attacked another Marxist party office in the Hungama Police area of the Matara district.

Aug 31, Colombo: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today informed the Anuradhapura Magistrate Courts that the main suspect of the assassination case of Major General Janaka Perera is now ready to make a special confession over the incident.

Relatives of displaced people in Pulmodai have accused the media and authorities of ignoring their plight.

Having toyed with Pakistan and New Zealand, Kumar Sangakkara’s Sri Lanka are eyeing India as their next scalp as the battle heats up to be the world’s top Test team.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s High Court on Monday sentenced a Tamil reporter described by US President Barack Obama as an “emblematic example” of a persecuted journalist, to 20 years in prison for supporting terrorism.

Aug 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Prison Department will launch the first phase of a special programme aiming to rehabilitate inmates identified as drug addicts, today at the Pallekale open prison.

Sri Lanka: Journalist sentenced to 20 years’ prison (AKI) - Sri Lanka’s high court on Monday sentenced a prominent Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison after convicting him under the country’s severe anti-terrorism laws. J.S. Tissainayagam was found guilty of “causing communal disharmony”.J.S. Tissainayagam’s articles in the former Northeastern Monthly magazine in 2006 and [...]

Sri Lanka’s ace spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has been ruled out of the upcoming Twenty20 versus New Zealand, says Team Manager Brendon Kuruppu.

Compared to the programmes initiated by President R. Premadasa during his regime, this government has opening ceremonies which incur almost half the expenditure of the total project costs, says UNP Parliamentarian Sajith Premadasa this morning (Aug. 31).

The Indian Union Ministry of External Affairs is working with the Sri Lankan government for an agreement on transfer of sentenced prisoners.

The price of a domestic cylinder of gas was revised with effect from midnight (August 31). Accordingly, the price of a 12.5 kg of Shell gas will now be Rs. 1550 and Laugfs gas Rs. 1476, Sri Lanka’s Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunewardene said.

Aug 31, Colombo: The two main LP gas companies in Sri Lanka has revised their prices on a 12.5 kg LP gas cylinder with effect from midnight today.

The Western Provincial Council yesterday rejected Central Government claims of 450,000 tourist arrivals in the country since the end of the war in May, though the industry had picked up somewhat.

J.S. Tissainayagam, a senior journalist and Sunday Times columnist, was sentenced to twenty-year rigorous imprisonment by Colombo High Court judge Deepali Wijesundara on Monday. Mr. Tissanayagam has been indicted under the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and Emergency Regulations (ER), and was charged on three counts including printing and distributing the publication North Eastern [...]

(Lanka-e-News, August 31, 2009, 1.40pm) The most prominent Tamil parliamentary group in Sri Lanka says the party is prepared to help President Mahinda Rajapaksa to resolve the national issue.

R Sambanthan, the leader of…

(Lanka-e-News 31.Aug.2009 2.00PM) A Sri Lankan court sentenced a journalist who wrote articles critical of a military offensive against the Tamil Tigers to 20 years’ hard labor under…

Domestic gas cylinder price up from midnight with Shell up by Rs103 to new price of Rs1,550. Laugh up by Rs69 & new price Rs1,476-Official-JNW

(RTTNews) - Sri Lanka’s consumer price index or CPI rose 0.9% year-on-year in August, slower than the 1.1% growth in July, the Department of Census and Statistics said on Monday. The consumer price inflation was 24.9% a year ago.

A prominent Tamil reporter, whose detention in Sri Lanka was described by US President Barack Obama as an “emblematic example” of threats to media freedom, was today sentenced to 20 years in prison for having links with the LTTE and for writing against the government.

Source: IRIN Years ago, the loft above Kulasena Perera’s bedroom was a storeroom for rice. Now, huge wicker baskets
that once held the harvests are abandoned, testament to the years the fields have not been farmed.

TNA leader says the party is prepared to help the president to find a political solution that does not divide the island.

A court in Sri Lanka sentences a prominent Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison for “causing communal disharmony”.

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s inflation slowed in August, giving the central bank room to cut interest rates to stoke an economic revival after the end of the island’s three- decade civil war.

Sri Lanka’s High Court on Monday sentenced a Tamil reporter described by US President Barack Obama as an “emblematic example” of a persecuted journalist, to 20 years in prison for supporting terrorism.

COLOMBO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s consumer prices fell 0.9 percent in August from a year earlier, slowing down from 1.1 percent in July after hitting a record low in June, government data showed on Monday.

COLOMBO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s consumer prices fell 0.9 percent in August from a year earlier, slowing down from 1.1 percent in July after hitting a record low in June, government data showed on Monday.

Sri Lanka’s High Court has sentenced a Tamil reporter described by the US President as a persecuted journalist to 20 years in prison for supporting terrorism.

Stocks climb to a fresh 15-month high with ASI up 0.23% to 2,608 points on Rs 584 mil turnover today; market up 73% this year-brokers-JNW

Sangakarra - keen on world domination. Having toyed with Pakistan and New Zealand, Kumar Sangakkara’s Sri Lanka are eyeing India as their next scalp as the battle heats up to be the world’s top Test team.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Daniel Vettori’s 140 runs went in vain as Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 96 runs in the second cricket test and swept the series 2-0 on the final day yesterday.

COLOMBO (AFP) - Having toyed with Pakistan and New Zealand, Kumar Sangakkara’s Sri Lanka are eyeing India as their next scalp as the battle heats up to be the world’s top Test team.

Colombo – A Tamil minority journalist charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and Emergency Regulations in Sri Lanka was sentenced Monday to a 20-year rigorous imprisonment term by a local court, officials said. The journalist, Jayeprakash Tiss…

A Sri Lankan court Monday sentenced an ethnic Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison under the island’s harsh anti-terrorism law for publishing articles critical of the government’s war on the Tamil Tiger rebels.

Source: Reuters By Ranga Sirilal

COLOMBO, Aug 31 (Reuters) — A Sri Lankan court sentenced a journalist who wrote articles critical of a military offensive against the Tamil Tigers to 20 years’ hard labour under …

Sri Lanka’s High Court sentenced a Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison Monday after convicting him on terrorism charges, officials said.

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A court in Sri Lanka sentences a prominent Tamil journalist to 20 years in jail for “causing communal disharmony”.

Aug 31, Colombo: The Colombo High Court today sentenced Sri Lankan Tamil journalist J. S. Tissanayagam to 20 years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and Emergency Regulations.

Colombo High Court convicts journalist JS Tissainayagam under Prevention of Terrorism Act, sentences to 20 years rigorous imprisonment-lawyer-JNW

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