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Source: Reuters Oct 27 - A group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers stage a protest and urge the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to register them as refugees. Lyndee Prickitt reports.

Film “Alimankada” based on award-winning novel “Road to Elephant Pass” by Nihal De Silva will open in theaters Oct 30th-theatre official-JNW

Oct 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa was the chief guest at the graduation ceremony of the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University held Tuesday (27) at the BMICH.

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 [...]

Thirty four gem and jewellery companies will participate in trade fairs in China in November this ye..

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has, at a discussion with a group of pro-government trade union represen..

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka said it is accelerating the settlement of Tamil refugees held in transit camps since the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May, after coming under international criticism for delaying their release.

Saudi Arabia is keen to invest in Sri Lanka s agro-based industries with a holistic approach to deve..

According to our Singapore correspondent, Chief of Defense staff Gen.Sarath Fonseka who left SL on t..

The day the JVP will commit political suicide by supporting a common candidate put forward by the UN..

Sabaragamuwa Chief Minister Maheepala Herath yesterday (26) assured an impartial investigation a..

The country is burdened with two kinds of IDPs: the war displaced consisting of innocent men, women ..

India s top intelligence wing has acquired some key information about a dangerous alliance between t..

The news that Sri Lanka has taken an official decision to appoint a commission to probe in to the US..

Oct 28, Colombo: The European Council expressed its concern over the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka when the foreign ministers of the Council met Tuesday in Luxembourg.

(Lanka-e-News 27.Oct.2009 1.30PM) The Russian Federation’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Sergey V. Lavrov, who is currently on a historic…

(Lanka-e-News,27.Oct.2009, 3.20PM) ‘Is the motherland going to be destroyed? I will involve changing the dire situation’ said the Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka…

(Lanka-e-News 27.Oct.2009 4.30PM) UNP M.P. Dayasiri Jayasekera speaking to the media today (27) , at the UNP media unit said the controversial vote on account which the Govt…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.27, 2009, 7.10PM) Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena addressing a media conference at the Media and information Ministry complex today (27) said,…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.27, 2009, 7.20PM) Minister Yapa Abeywardena said, the people have not asked from the Govt. to abolish the Executive Presidency…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.27, 2009, 7.35 PM) JVP Secretary Tilvin Silva addressing the launch of the campaign to abolish the Executive Presidency today (27) at the Campbell Park said,…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.27, 2009, 8.10 PM) The Secretary of the GMOA , Dr. Chandana Atappattu told Lanka e news that they have sent a letter to the President today…

Colombo, Oct 27 (PTI) Nearly 90,000 out of the 2.88 lakh Tamils displaced during the ethnic conflict in northern Sri Lanka have been sent back home under the government’s resettlement initiatives, an official report said today.

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.24, 2009, 7.30PM) Owing to the work to rule staged by the CPC workers, 90 % of the supply and distribution of fuel had broken down at the Corporation…

Behind the tropical beaches of Hikkaduwa, southern Sri Lanka, stands a monument linking the Asian tsunami that devastated this area in 2004 to another kind of tsunami now sweeping the hedge fund industry in New York.

Colombo, Oct 27 (IANS) Sri Lanka will appoint a committee to probe into the allegations made by the US State Department of alleged ‘atrocities’ by its troops during the final battle against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May this year, an official said.

(RTTNews) - Sri Lanka said Monday that it would set up a high-raking inquiry committee to probe a U.S. State Department report, which alleged that the country’s security forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels committed possible war crimes and serious human rights abuses during the final phase of their 25-year old conflict.

Saudi Arabia is keen to invest in Sri Lanka’s agro-based industries with a holistic approach to develop the sector.

Sri Lanka was capable to face any international pressure on alleged war crimes or any other problems as it had a proper judicial system and the Russian government had always supported the Sri Lankan government to protect its national integrity.

2,950 persons of 930 families from Jaffna held in Vavuniyaa Sri Lanka Army (SLA) internment camps arrived in Jaffna Sunday through A9 road and all of them are being lodged in I’nuvil Maththiya Mahaviththiyaalaym and Neerveali Aththiar Hindu College, sources in Jaffna said. Steps are being taken to bring around 20,000 persons of Jaffna [...]

Edward Mortimer, chair of the Advisory Council for Sri Lanka Peace and Justice Campaign, a rights group, in a letter to Financial Times responding to an earlier article on GSP+ says: “[G]overnment has until now held more than 250,000 civilians in insanitary internment camps, currently threatened with monsoon flooding, while an unknown number of alleged [...]

The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Mullaiththeevu and Ki’linochchi districts in Vanni now held in the detention camps in Mirusuvil, Kodikaamam Naavaladi and Kaithadi will be continued to be held in the same camps, according to Minister Douglas Devananda, who Sunday visited the three camps. Though the government says that it is going to resettle [...]

Sri Lanka Police arrested five Tamils including two women in three separate
incidents Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the East and West of the country. Two persons including a third year undergraduate of South Eastern University were taken into custody on Friday in Kalmunai in the East. T. Vinorathan of Thambiluvil was taken into custody along [...]

COLOMBO, October 26 (Itar-Tass) — Russia and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement on cooperation in the fight against illegal drug trafficking. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov signed the document ion behalf and for Russia.

A court in Sri Lanka frees the Tamil publisher of a monthly magazine more than a year after he was held under anti-terror laws.

Sri Lanka says it will appoint a committee to probe US claims of human rights abuses during the final phase of its civil war.

The Sri Lankan government seeks greater trade and investment ties with Vietnam, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, minister of Sri Lanka’s Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion council said Saturday.

Oct 26, Colombo: The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey V. Lavrov met Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa this evening at the President’s House in Colombo.

Oct 26, Colombo: The Spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva had regrettably misinterpreted the report submitted by the US State Department to the US Congress…

Source: Reuters By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s president will appoint a home-grown committee to probe a U.S. State Department report of possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka’s 25- …

The Sri Lankan government rejected on Monday fresh accusations that Tamil Tiger separatist leader Ve..

(Lanka-e-News 26.Oct.2009 3.30PM) The Sri Lankan government rejected fresh accusations that Tamil Tiger separatist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was executed after surrendering…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.26, 2009, 5.00PM) According to our Singapore correspondent, Chief of Defense staff Gen.Sarath Fonseka who left SL on the 24th on a tour of America and other countries has met UNP and opposition Leader…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.26, 2009, 6.05PM) There is a huge hue and cry in the political circles these days to learn as to who are the owners of…

(Lanka-e-News 26.Oct.2009 6.30PM) President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to appoint an independent group of high ranking intellects, comprising legal experts…

(Lanka-e-News, Oct.26, 2009, 6.30PM) America US States Dept. has forwarded a report on SL war crimes charges to the Congress. Following this, the UN human rights Commission…

Sri Lanka’s president will appoint a home-grown committee to probe a U.S. State Department report of possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka’s 25-year war against the Tamil Tigers, the government said on Monday.

Source: Reuters By Ranga Sirilal

COLOMBO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s president will appoint a home-grown committee to probe a U.S. State Department report of possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka’s 25- …

Oct 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to appoint an independent committee to make inquiries and submit a report, on the alleged incidents, a report prepared by the US State Department says have committed by the security forces.

Sri Lanka says it will appoint an independent committee to investigate allegations raised by a recent US report.

The Sri Lankan government on Monday said it would investigate war crimes allegations made against its troops in a US State Department report.

Oct 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka Navy has rescued two stranded multi-day fishing boats in the Southern and Northern deep seas during the last twenty-four hours.

Colombo, Oct 26 (PTI) Amid growing global pressure to probe allegations of human rights abuses, Sri Lanka today said it would investigate war crimes accusations made against the military in a US government report.

Oct 26, Colombo: Sri Lankan education officials today asked the students who do not have the National Identity Cards and are preparing to take the upcoming GCE Ordinary Level examination in next December, to apply for the NICs as soon as possible.

Oct 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka police have arrested a suspected suicide bomber in Nagadeepa, Jaffna last night.

Oct 26, Colombo: Leaders of the government and non-government trade unions in Sri Lanka today met President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees to discuss their salary dispute.

Oct 26, Colombo: The residents as well as devotees in Kataragama, one of the sacred cities in Sri Lanka are hit by a severe drought once again.

Oct 26, Colombo: The government has made remarkable progress in resettling the people displaced by the was between government forces and the terrorist group LTTE, the Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe said today.

Union leaders of Government and non Government departments and companies met President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on 26th October.