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The European Union (EU) has continued to put pressure on the Sri Lankan government to address severa..

In an operation similar to the one conducted in the East with the support of breakaway LTTE cadres h..

The Health Ministry has issued withhold notices to hospitals regarding certain medicine following ..

There are more serious issues to be tackled in the agriculture sector than going behind the buffalo..

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sri Lanka government is seeking to attract Malaysian investors to its tourism sector as it targets 2.5 million tourist arrivals in 2016. Sri Lanka tourism development authority direc…

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members of Jaffna Municipal Council (JMC) who kept away from the initial ceremonies which preceded the inauguration of the first session of JMC Wednesday said that the vain ceremonies held by the ruling United People’s Front Alliance (UPFA) and allied political parties as propaganda is deplorable while the Vanni IDPs are [...]

RIYADH: Sri Lanka’s government called for the help of its overseas workers to work for the country’s development plans.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sri Lanka government is seeking to attract Malaysian investors to its tourism sector as it targets 2.5 million tourist arrivals in 2016.

Stating that a list of details of children ranging from 1 month to 18 years, within the internment camps in Vavuniyaa, was being composed by concerned western academics and rights activists, Prof. Peter Schalk, of Uppsala University, Sweden, on Tuesday said out of 1,200 names they have composed 1,082 were orphans. The information is documented [...]

Sri Lanka has reached the 16th position out of 134 countries in the Gender Gap Index 2009. The country has recorded a population growth of 0.62 percent with a total population of 20.01 million, while overall population sex ratio recorded 0.96 percent.

Australian authorities have said 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Indonesia will not be taken to Aust..

Police intelligence unit located in Mannaar Tuesday night arrested a Tamil person in Ezhuthoor in Mannaar district on receipt of information that he had been a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eezham (LTTE) intelligence division, Police Spokesman Nimal Mediwake told media Wednesday.

Oct 28, Ratnapura: Threatening the Ratnapura District in the Sabaragamuwa Province a first case of swine flu has been detected on a girl in Ratnapura, the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Health Services Director, Dr Kapila Kannangara said.

147 members of 52 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) families from Menikfarm internment camp in Vavuniyaa district were transferred to a transit camp located in Illupaikku’lam in Mannaar district before being resettled in their villages, from which they were forcibly vacated due to military operation by Sri Lanka Army (SLA). They would be screened by the [...]

Oct 28, Colombo: The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) has organized a nine-day festive arena, the World Spice Food Festival from 06th to 14th November 2009.

Oct 28, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to leave for Nepal tomorrow (29) on a two-day official visit, the Presidential Media Unit said.

Oct 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the Ministry of Education to carry out special educational programmes for the students in the welfare villages…

Oct 28, Colombo: After a series of controversies President Mahinda Rajapaksa today appointed Dr. Ramesh Pathirana as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Organizer for Akmeemana electorate in Galle District.

Oct 28, Colombo: The bailed out chairman of the troubled Ceylinco Group Lalith Kothalawela today left the remand after he met the strict conditions put forward by the Supreme Court.

Oct 28, Colombo: English elocution is to be introduced in Sri Lankan public schools as a compulsory subject with effect from 2011, Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs said.

Oct 28, Colombo: All the ruling party representatives of the local government institutes have unanimously urged the President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold Presidential polls before the parliamentary election next year.

Oct 28, Colombo: After intrusive materials were found in several drug bottles in the country, Sri Lanka government has called explanations from the drug importers within three days, said Health Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva.

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.28, 2009, 7.50PM)President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as Minister of Finance…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.28, 2009, 8.00PM) The following is a text of the speech of Chief of Defense staff Sarath Fonseka made at Washington Vihara on the 25th of October…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.28, 2009, 8.00PM) Deputy Social Services Minister Lionel Premasiri addressing a Press briefing at the Minsitry complex to enlighten the media…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.28, 2009, 8.00PM) The Lanka teachers Union states that about 5000 students from the Vavuniya IDP camps who sat the…

Oct 28, Colombo: A tense situation prevailed in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo for the second consecutive day,….

Oct 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition, United National Party (UNP) today extended an open invitation to the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)….

Oct 28, Colombo: A special nutrition programme has been implemented by the Nutrition Division of the Ministry of Education on the direction of Minister Susil Premajayantha to prevent malnutrition among school children in the welfare villages, Ministry sources revealed.

Oct 28, Kegalle: The Department of Agriculture of Sabaragamuwa Province has imported a parasite “Acerophagus papayae” of hymenoptera family from the Puerto Rico Institute of APHIS of USDA to counter the ‘Mealy Bug’…

Oct 28, Colombo: The US government welcomes the progress of speedy resettlement programmes underway at present facilitating the return of IDPs to their home villages, said the US Embassy in Colombo issuing a special press release today (Oct 28).

Oct 28, Colombo: Adding another headache to the Sri Lankan government the employees of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) today launched a protest campaign demanding an immediate salary increment.

Oct 28, Colombo: The Western Province Intelligence Unit has arrested a key member of the LTTE intelligence unit in Elatur, Mannar last night.

Oct 28, Colombo: All the ruling party representatives of the local government institutes have unanimously urged the President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold Presidential polls before the parliamentary election next year.

Oct 28, Colombo: People in Kelaniya were amazed to learn that there is a devil in the Sri Lankan parliament who could protect people rather than harming them.

Oct 28, Colombo: Oxigen Plantations Limited, a UK based company has sponsored to grow cash crops and forestry in Sri Lanka through Asia Plantation Capital Limited.

Oct 28, Colombo: The Chinese government has provided Rs. 2.049 billions of loan at concession rates to the government of Sri Lanka recently to purchase a huge amount of vehicles, machinery and other equipment from China.

A move by the Kandy traffic police to fine errant pedestrians has hit a snag after Kandy Mayor L.B. Aluvihare told a Municipal Council meeting that the police had no right to fine pedestrians who did not use the 'Yellow line' when crossing the road or walked outside the pavement railings.

Russia has expressed interest in oil exploration in the Mannar bay and the rehabilitation of the Sapugaskanda oil refinery, Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Ministry of Human Rights and Disaster Management said yesterday that the statement attributed to the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR), to the effect that an inquiry, similar to that carried out by the Gaza fact finding mission was required on the final stages of the recently concluded military [...]

Unemployed graduates who had been on a hunger strike opposite the Fort Railway Station, marched to the Finance Ministry yesterday. Thousands of graduates participated in the protest congesting the Fort area.

Organizer for the Kelaniya seat Minister Mervyn Silva has said that his son Malaka Silva will be next in line for the role of organizer in the Kelaniya district after he steps down. The politician had emphasized that no one but his son would take over the position, once he vacates.

The JVP took to the streets yesterday calling for the abolition of the executive presidency, and bringing traffic to a halt in the centre of Colombo City. It said the party would build up a strong political force and defeat President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the next presidential election, but would not create an environment that [...]

A reservoir as big as Parakrama Samudra is being built in Kappachchi area on the border of Anuradhapura and Mannar to cultivate 27,000 acres of paddy land, Minister of Irrigation, Ports and Aviation Minister Chamal Rajapaksa said at the opening ceremony of the Water and Man National Hydro-culture exhibition for schoolchildren at the All Ceylon [...]

Sri Lanka Customs will implement the ASYCUDA World (AW) System which is the latest UNCTAD ASYCUDA software from January 1, Customs Director General S.A.C.S.W Jayathilake said at the introductory seminar on AW at Cinamon Lakeside Hotel yesterday.

Australian authorities have said 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Indonesia will not be taken to Australia, their intended destination. The ethnic Tamil asylum seekers have spent 10 days on an Australian customs ship in Indonesian waters.

Colombo – An international human rights group Wednesday accused the Sri Lanka government of blocking independent investigations of alleged abuses in the recently ended war with Tamil rebels. US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) was reacting to a governm…

147 members of 52 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) families from Menikfarm internment camp in Vavuniyaa district were transferred to a transit camp located in Illupaikkulam in Mannaar district before being resettled in their villages, from which they were forcibly vacated due to military operation by Sri Lanka Army (SLA). They would be screened by the [...]

The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Vanni origin detained in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) detention camp in Raamaavil in Thenmaraadchi have to stay in the camp if there are no relatives in Jaffna to take them over, according to Jaffna Secretariat sources. Though the government campaigns that Vanni IDPs will be resettled in their own [...]

A team of the Special Task Force (STF) arrested a
Muslim police inspector for allegedly assisting the LTTE in earlier days to
bring its cadres to reach their targets of attaks. This was revealed by
the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Colombo Additional
Magistrate’s Court Monday when the suspect, Police Inspector Dawood
Mohamed Aimeer, was produced.

An international rights group on Wednesday protested Sri Lanka’s plan to study wartime abuses alleged in a recent U.S State Department report, saying only an international inquiry would bring victims justice.

WASHINGTON - A United States State Department report detailing possible violations of the laws of war in Sri Lanka during the first half of 2009 is adding to pressure for an independent, international investigation into alleged atrocities committed by government forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) separatists.

Lalith Kotelawela is released on bail by Supreme Court today after deposit of Rs5 mil cash bail & fulfilling other conditions-lawyer-JNW

Around 2,000 students protest against private universities and alleged police harassment of students; now at Pittala Junc Kolpitty-reporter-JNW

Companies importing & manufacturing low quality drugs will be prosecuted & their licenses cancelled, says Health Minister-Info Dept-JNW

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - An international rights group on Wednesday protested Sri Lanka’s plan to study wartime abuses alleged in a recent U.S State Department report, saying only an international inquiry would bring victims justice.

Sri Lanka’s agreement to probe war crimes allegations related to its defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels is a smokescreen to avoid an international inquiry, a human rights group said Wednesday.

Oct 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Police have recovered a haul of Claymore mines and several other explosives believed to be hidden by the LTTE from Vavuniya last night.

Oct 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka government today urged for more public support to provide relief to the people affected by the continuing drought in seven districts of the country.

Source: Reuters By Pauline Askin

SYDNEY, Oct 28 (Reuters Life!) - At the lowest point in his life, former Australian army engineer Donny Paterson broke into a clinic to steal drugs to feed his morphine addiction, …