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Source: IRIN The UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, urged donors not to squeeze funding to
humanitarian emergencies while launching the annual Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) in Geneva on 30 November.

Colombo, Nov 30 (AFP) Sri Lanka will today allow thousands of civilians to leave state-run camps where they have been detained since the military’s victory over Tamil Tiger separatist rebels, a senior official said.

Nov 30, Colombo: Mother Sri Lanka Foundation, an organization initiated by the President’s Office to encourage and inspire the citizens to empower the country inaugurated its program in the Northern Province.

Mumbai: Sri Lanka called up Thilina Kandamby to its Test squad and the uncapped Chinthaka Jayasinghe and Muthumudalige Pushpakumara to its Twenty20 squad on Tuesday for the tour of India next month.Sri Lanka were comprehensively beaten by India in the second

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa will present an extended version of his earlier election manifesto, Mahinda Chintanaya to the public, a government Minister revealed today.

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Election Secretariat today announced that it is ready to accept postal vote applications and the voters could now apply for postal voting at the presidential election.

Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene has urged his team to go flat out in Wednesday’s final Test against India in Mumbai.

Nov 30, Colombo: Prospective candidates from recognized political parties can place their deposits for the upcoming presidential polls from today, the Election Secretariat announced.

Minister Dullas Alahapperuma says Gen Fonseka might face death threats from his own camp.

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s retired military chief and presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka met the Maha Nayakes (Chief Prelates) of Malwathu and Asgiri Chapters today.

Nov 30, Dambulla: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Dambulla Economic Centre today and
witnessed the agricultural productivity in the North Central Province. The President took a look at
locally grown fruits and vegetables at the vendors of the Economic Centre.

(Lanka-e-News, Nov.30, 2009, 8.30PM) Govt. hooligans and marauders have started their violence even before the nominations for Presidential elections has been completed…

(Lanka-e-News, Nov.30, 2009, 8.30PM) The media personnel who covered the war were invited to the Hilton Hotel tonight (30) to felicitate them by the President. However,…

(Lanka-e-News, Nov.30, 2009, 8.30PM) SLFP Treasurer and Minsiter Dulles Alahaperuma speaking to the media at SLFP propaganda Headquarters today (30) said, he also suspects that there are threats to the life of…

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s annual average inflation rate declined to a record six-year low of 4.1 percent in November, from 5.2 percent in the previous month, the Central Bank reported today.

Declaring his candidacy at the forthcoming presidential election, former Army Chief General Sarath F..

The eyewitness of an alleged police brutality says she feared for her life after testifying against police.

Chilaw Marians Ladies beat Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club Women’s by five wickets to win the inter club women’s limited over cricket championship.
Kurunegala YCC Women’s 148 in 47.5 overs; Chilaw Marians Ladies 149 for 5 in 40.1 overs-JNW

Four Sri Lankan athletes won four silver medals in the Singapore Open Athletic Championship on Monday.
Menaka Wickremasinghe won a silver medal in the 400 metres event, Rohan Pradeep Kumara wins a silver in 400 meters, R.M.G.D. Sampath won a silver medal in the 800 metres and J.A.N.K. Appuhamy also won a silver medal in the [...]

Chathura Peiris and Udara Jayasundera were the stars for Sri Lanka Under-19 as they got off to a winning start beating Bangladesh Under-19 in Dambulla

(Lanka-e-News, Nov.29, 2009, 10.00PM Second edition Nov.30, 11.45AM)

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Are you entering politics ?
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Yes.

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Are you contesting the Presidential elections?
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Yes. All Opposition parties are wishing that I contest as common candidate…

India will reach the top of the ICC test rankings for the first time if they win the third and final test against Sri Lanka starting on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka will Tuesday allow thousands of civilians to leave state-run camps where they have been detained since the military’s victory over Tamil Tiger separatist rebels, a senior official said.

More than twenty Fort Lauderdale Tamils protested in front of the Sawgrass Mills shopping center Saturday drawing attention to the shoppers of the boycott campaign to shun “Made in Sri Lanka” goods, especially garments. The Florida mall is one of the biggest in South East of USA, and visited by most tourists from Caribbean and [...]

Former Deputy Mayor of Colombo Azath Salley, who was sacked from the UNP’s Working Committee this week by the Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe for criticising Gen. Sarath Fonseka’s candidacy, is to spearhead a campaign to ensure that Gen. Fonseka is not elected President on the basis that he has racist [...]

The few thousands who have been resettled in selected divisions of Mullaiththeevu and Ki’linochchi districts, are reportedly affected by the lack of food supply, news reports reaching Vavuniyaa said. The ‘resettled’ are actually kept in schools in those areas and are extracted of forced labour to clear the locations of resettlement. Their freedom of movement [...]

Three key one time Tamil militant parties yesterday pledged their support to President Rajapaksa at the forthcoming Presidential election, while the leading estate sector party, the Ceylon Workers’ Congress said they were already campaigning for his re-election.

Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s inflation accelerated to a six-month high, suggesting the central bank may have less room to keep cutting interest rates.

Several Tamil boys and girls including teenagers interned in the camps are called by name through announcing system by the Sri Lanka Army intelligence officers and are taken to unknown destinations, reports reaching from Vavuniyaa camps said. At least 10 young men and boys were thus ‘abducted’ on 21 November and around 30 youth, including [...]

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at Trinidad and Tobago yesterday, November 29 agreed unanimously for Sri Lanka to host the CHOGM in 2013.

COLOMBO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in November from a year earlier, up from 1.4 percent in October, government data showed on Monday. Annual average inflation slowed to a record low of 4.1 percent in November, from 5.2 percent in October. It has fallen 13 straight months after hitting [...]

President will present an extended version of Mahinda Chinthana manifesto after handing of nominations- Min Alahapperuma-Info Dept-JNW

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s war hero, former army commander General Sarath Fonseka, who steered the bloody victory against a ruthless rebel outfit this year, on Sunday officially declared that he was taking incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his ex-boss, head-on at a presidential election slated for January 26, 2010.

CHENNAI: The Sri Lankan Government would send Tamils living in camps to their respective places in the island nation by January 2010 as per schedule, a top official of the Sri Lankan High Commission said here today.

Chathura Peiris and Udara Jayasundera were the stars for Sri Lanka Under-19 as they got off to a winning start in the tournament, beating Bangladesh Under-19 by 20 runs via the D/L method in a rain-marred tie in Dambulla.

The government yesterday expressed concern over remarks made by presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka that in his quest to win the upcoming presidential election he would even welcome the votes of those who might have previously supported the LTTE.

Test cricket returns to Mumbai’s venerable Brabourne stadium after 36 years when India and Sri Lanka clash in the third and final match here from Wednesday.

COLOMBO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in November from a year earlier, up from 1.4 percent in October, government data showed on Monday.

COLOMBO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in November from a year earlier, up from 1.4 percent in October, government data showed on Monday.

India will reach the top of the ICC test rankings for the first time if they win the third and final test against Sri Lanka starting Wednesday.

* India chase number one ranking

Six people have died & 10 injured in seven road accidents in last 48 hrs in Pannala, Gokarella, Trincomalee & Nikaweratiya areas-Police-JNW

The decimation of the LTTE in Sri Lanka has given a big push to illegal immigration involving Sri La..

Reveals his symbol will be swan
Promises independent Commissions
Executive presidency to..

Sri Lanka has a history of violence. For a Buddhist country with a population of 20 million that his..

The Security Forces were dedicated to the war under the guidance of the leadership of the President ..

Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) in association with the Department of Agriculture (DoA) cultivate b..

*Rapid development under President
*Not a single Tamil person will vote for Fonseka
*Billi..

Several Tamil boys and girls including teenagers interned in the camps are called by name through announcing system by the Sri Lanka Army intelligence officers and are taken to unknown destinations, reports reaching from Vavuniyaa camps said. At least 10 young men and boys were thus ‘abducted’ on 21 November and around 30 youth, including [...]

India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs on the fourth day of the second test in Kanpur to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
India 642; SL 229 and 269n-JNW

Renown Sports Club wins the “A” division champions league football title beating  Air Force 3-1 by penalty shoot out after game was drawn 2 all at full time at Longdon Place on Friday evening-JNW

Although government authorities claim that all the Vanni Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) held in Sahanagam camp 2 located in Pulmoaddai in Trincomalee district, 2,576 of them are continued to be detained, sources in Trincomalee said.

Sri Lanka Police sources said all operations launched against
underworld criminals have been suspended on the orders from superiors. With the end of the war against the LTTE the police
launched an operation to eradicate underworld criminals. Over one
hundred under world criminals were killed in the campaign. But some of them,
including notorious criminal Kudu Lal, who [...]

The number of parliamentary seats for the North and East provinces in
the new parliament would be the same as at present-31. There is no
change, according to gazette notification issued by the
Commissioner General of Elections Dayananda Dissanayake.

A Barbarian side made up of players in the Fiji 7s team for the opening tournament of the IRB Sevens World Series in Dubai walked away with the Carlton Sri Lanka 7s yesterday.

The engagement of Professor Francis A. Boyle, an eminent American expert in international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, during the last years of Sri Lanka’s conflict is traced in a forthcoming book published by Clarity Press of Atlanta. Titled “The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: [...]

Former Sri Lanka Army Commander General (retd) Sarath Fonseka, the common opposition candidate for the Sri Lankan presidential election, which is scheduled to be held on January 26 is to contest on the symbol swan and on the ticket of a newly registered political party. He held the first press briefing Sunday morning at
Jaica Hotel [...]

Tamils look over a fence as they stand inside a camp in Vavuniya. Sri Lanka has been criticised for actions that earlier this year led to thousands being displaced without proper humanitarean access. …

(Lanka-e-News, Nov.29, 2009, 10.00PM) Hereunder are the answers furnished by the General Sarath Fonseka to questions posed by the media at todays’ press conference….