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The United States on Friday announced funding for up to 1,000 former Tamil guerrillas to reintegrate in society by starting their own businesses or learning new skills.

The Galle Film Festival to be held from Dec 2-6; will include Vimukthi Jayasundara’s ‘Ahasin Wetei’ & Nandita Das’s film Firaaq-Info Dept-JNW

Local Amnesty International (AI) members, at a demonstration in Cambridge Market Square on October 26th, called for the UK government to increase international pressure on Sri Lanka to release the more than 250,000 Tamil detainees from the refugee-turned-detention camps. Richard Howitt, MEP for the East of England, also spoke in support of the Campaign and [...]

Priority for Army personnel s loan application:
Loans for house construction to be prioritised:..

Controversy surrounds Australia s decision to keep Sri Lanka out of negotiations over Sri Lankan..

Former Chief Minister of Southern Province, Shan Wijayalal De Silva took oaths before President Mahi..

A Cabinet Sub-committee (CSC) has been appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to assist the people..

John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) recorded Profit Before Tax (PBT) for the six months and quarter ended..

Principles in politics are like snow in hell. The JVP did their damnedest to prevent Mahinda Rajapak..

Jaffna University students paid homage Thursday to their fellow final year medical student from Ki’linochchi in Vanni who is suspected to have his taken his life Wednesday due to mental stress, sources in Jaffna said. Vignarajah Gowribalan, 26, who had been staying in a house in Aanaikkoadai in Jaffna, has been undergoing severe mental agony, [...]

Colombo still has time to try to persuade the European Union not to suspend Sri Lanka’s trading privileges , a move that would damage its crucial garment export industry, a senior EU official said on Thursday.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa on a two day official visit to Nepala yesterday met former Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. The former Premier said Sri Lanka’s humanitarian operation that saw an end to 30 years of terrorism was an example to the entire world.

The European Community (EU) appears to be suffering from a terrible Phobia about Sri Lanka. Perhaps these people are knowledgeable only on the latest technological attainments of the West and not their own history of the not so distant past.

With proper focus and preparation Sri Lanka can face the GSP+ risk and the Government has already taken necessary steps to manage this risk, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said at a media briefing on “ GSP+ Scheme and Sri Lanka from a risk management perspective” at the Central Bank yesterday.

New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Amnesty International, and Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF), three premier watchdogs on media freedom, independently called Sri Lanka to investigate into the death threats received by two senior editors of Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader for the editors’ coverage of the Channel-4 broadcast video which showed armed Sri Lankan [...]

Sri Lanka’s Department of Examinations is yet to release the results
of Vanni Internally Displaced students who sat the Grade 5 scholarship examination in the internment camps located in Vavuniyaa. The results of the examination for students in other parts of the country were officially released on October 29. But 5,200 IDP students are yet to [...]

Oct 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s President today ordered the police to thoroughly investigation the death threats received by the journalists of Leader newspapers.

Oct 29, Colombo: The Ministry of Health has claimed explanations from six Indian pharmaceutical companies with regard to the medicinal drugs contaminated with glass particles and plastic recently.

Oct 29, Colombo: The British retail giant Marks and Spencer has assured Public Administration Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama that, the company will take every possible effort to make sure Sri Lanka receives the GSP+ concession.

Oct 29, Colombo: Navy media spokesman Captain DKP Dasanayake strongly refuted the latest Indian media allegations of assault on Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.

Sri Lanka’s president ordered police Thursday to investigate death threats directed at two journalists from a newspaper that is critical of the government.

Sri Lanka’s president ordered police Thursday to investigate death threats directed at two journalists from a newspaper that is critical of the government.

Sri Lanka’s president ordered police Thursday to investigate death threats directed at two journalists from a newspaper that is critical of the government.

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.29, 2009, 8.15PM) JVP M.P. said, if Presidential elections is to be held in the future, the country needs a common candidate in the circumstances to change…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.29, 2009, 8.15PM) There had arisen a grave suspicion that State pharmaceutical Corporation is selling drugs without date and outdated drugs to customers…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.29, 2009, 8.20PM) Sri Lanka’s stock market .CSE fell to a one-month low close on Thursday, led by retail selling of blue chips…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.29, 2009, 8.20PM) Sri Lankan authorities today claimed that all displaced Tamils from the country’s eastern provinces…

Oct 29,Colombo: Worsening the problems faced by the Sri Lankan Health officials, intrusive materials have been recovered from more medicine bottles in the country’s government hospitals.

Indonesia says the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers moored in a boat off Sumatra must co-operate with authorities or risk expulsion.

Oct 29, Colombo: Facilitating the Sri Lanka State Engineering Corporation (SEC) to penetrate the international market, Majuliya YWC Builders, a Malaysian company, has signed an agreement with the SEC for a joint venture to undertake international building contracts, the government sources said.

Oct 29, Colombo: The new joint opposition alliance led by the United National Party (UNP) is to be launched on 03rd of November.

Oct 29, Colombo: Sanath Jayasooriya, the oldest player in modern cricket is to miss his usual position as the opening batsman during the upcoming One day series in India.

Oct 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka government has decided to import 50,000 metric tons of rice as a reserve to meet any artificial dearth created by the traders.

Oct 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) says the Government’s move to reduce the interest rates of state bank is an election artifice.

Oct 29, Kathmandu: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at the Tribhuvan International Airport of Nepal today for a two-day official visit to the country.

Oct 29, Colombo: The former opposition leader of the Southern Province Justin Galappaththi, who crossed over to the ruling party, is to be appointed as the new Chief Government Whip of the Council.

Oct 29, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has appointed a cabinet subcommittee to provide immediate relief to drought affected persons in various parts of the country.

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.29, 2009, 12.20PM) Former Chief Minister of Southern Province, Shan Wijayalal De Silva took oaths before President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new Chief Minister of…

Outcry in Sri Lanka over allegations of police brutality

Sri Lanka’s war ended in May, but its police force has been under scrutiny over alleged acts of brutality, the BBC’s Charles Haviland reports

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka's president ordered police to probe death threats against journalists of a newspaper whose founding editor was murdered earlier this year, a spokesman said Thursday.

Nishantha Muthuhettigama, elected to the Southern Provincial Council on the UPFA ticket, skipped yesterday’s swearing in ceremony.

Sabaragamuwa Provincial Opposition leader Ranjan Ramanayake requested President Mahinda Rajapaksa to take immediate steps to fly back about 350 Sri Lankans now stranded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as they were undergoing immense hardship without food, clothing and other basic needs.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa noted that the Southern Province as a whole was on the fast track to development with mega projects and infrastructure facilities being implemented.

Oct 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today appealed to the newly elected Southern Provincial Council members to work hard for a ruling party victory at the upcoming national polls to be held early next year.

KATHMANDU: In an unusual turn of events, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government this year crushed a nearly three-decade-old Tamil insurgency, arrived in Nepal on Thursday and held a 30-minute-long discussion with Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, whose guerrilla army led a successful 10-year-old civil war in the Himalayan nation.

Chennai-based infrastructure and real estate development company Marg Ltd has entered the Sri Lankan market as part of its international foray.

Sanath Jayasuriya's cricketing future has been put in the balance with Sri Lanka's selectors saying today that his days as an opener are effectively over and that following the upcoming tour of India he will be picked on performance alone. Jayasuriya, 40, has been picked in the one-day squad as an allrounder who can bat [...]

New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Amnesty International, and Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF), three premier watchdogs on media freedom, independently called Sri Lanka to investigate into the death threats received by two senior editors of Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader for the editors’ coverage of the Channel-4 broadcast video which showed armed Sri Lankan [...]

Oct 29, Colombo: The new Chief Minister and four ministers of the Southern Provincial Council took oaths for the next four-year term before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s office this morning.

Sri Lanka’s president ordered police to probe death threats against journalists of a newspaper whose founding editor was murdered earlier this year, a spokesman said Thursday.

T M Dilshan and Upul Taranga to open ODI series against India, while Sanath Jayasuriya to bat in the middle order, says Kumar Sangakkara-JNW

Relief being provided in drought-affected Batticaloa, Polonnaruwa, Hambantota, Kurunegala, Monaragala, Puttalam-Disaster Relief Services-JNW

Oct 29, Colombo: India’s Kerala State is now eyeing on coconut pluckers even from neighbouring countries including Sri Lanka with higher perks, said an Indian report.

It’s Sri Lanka Week , but rather than investments, we should remember the 300,000 inmates being held in an internment camp, in violation of their rights under international and Sri Lankan law, writes Jake Lynch .

Oct 29, Colombo: Former Chief Minister of the Southern provincial council Shan Wijayalal De Silva today took oaths once again as the new Chief Minister of the province before President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Overseas workers’ support sought for Lanka’s growth

Shan Wijayalal De Silva took oaths as Chief Minister of the Southern Province before President short while ago-President’s Office-JNW

Sri Lanka has reached the 16th position out of 134 countries in the Gender Gap Index 2009. The count..

This is a peculiar country with a queer notion of welfare some people expect everything from the St..