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MK Sivajilingam, MP, says that he was deported by the authorities at Chennai airport on Friday.

Uproar in India after a cricket match between India and Sri Lanka was called off because the pitch was deemed unfit.

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan shares .CSE hit a fresh record high on Monday led by strong retail buying, on expectations of better profits due to post-war economic optimism amid low interest rates ahead of a January election.

Sri Lanka's president has given legal experts four more months to study a US State Department report cataloging alleged war crimes on the island, the presidency said in a statement Monday.

A record number of over 450,000 postal voting applications for the forthcoming presidential election have been received, election officials here said Monday.

Ministry of Sports and Recreation, Gamini Lokuge, today said that infrastructure facilities and sport at all schools would be the development target in 2010.

LONDON – Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will be Lancashire's overseas player next season, the English county announced Monday.

The Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates yesterday (Dec 27) accused the government of deceiving them by calling for applications, though jobs could not be given early next year, due to the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary polls.

A senior economist told Sri Lanka’s President that winning the socio-economic war would not be as difficult as winning the war on terror unleashed by the LTTE, but corruption needs to be eliminated as it reduces Sri Lanka’s productive potential and aggravates poverty.

Tamil activists from Washington D.C. metro area and suburbs engaged in “boycott Sri Lanka campaign” focused their attention on the GAP and Banana Republic stores in the historic Old Town, Alexandria where they held a protest Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Many Marylanders crossed the state border to Virginia to participate in [...]

Dec 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Central Bank is taking measures to give a 20% bonus interest scheme for senior citizens who were affected by the recent reduction in interest rates, the Government Media Unit announced.

Lancashire team has selected Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan captain, as their overseas player for the 2010 season. Subject to registration, Sangakkara will represent the club upon the conclusion of the ICC World Twenty20 in April and the proposed Asia Cup.
Sangakkara will be the third player from Sri Lanka to represent Lancashire, after Muttiah Muralitharan [...]

Cricket: India-Sri Lanka one-dayer abandoned over poor pitch

Saturday marked the five-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that took roughly 230,000 lives. One Elkhart engineering consultant with ties to Sri Lanka remembers hearing the news—and he knew he needed to help.

The 10th  Asia Cup will be held in a Test-playing nation in Sri Lanka or in India, between June 15-25 next year.  Pakistan and Bangladesh are the other Test-playing countries in the continent.
“Our understanding is that the property will be more viable if the tournament is staged in a Test-playing nation. N. Srinivasan (finance and marketing [...]

India-Lanka ODI abandoned, Delhi shamedIndia-Lanka ODI abandoned, Delhi shamed

Sri Lanka Government extended a request to the International and local Non-government Organizations in Jaffna to help the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Vanni now resettled in Jaffna, in a conference held with the NGOs Sunday at Jaffna Secretariat. Jaffna Government agent presided the conference which was attended by Minister Douglas Devananda and the Governor [...]

Chilaw Marians won  the Premier Tier ‘A’ cricket league champions of 2009 when they recorded a first innings win over Moors in the final and crucial league encounter concluded at Braybrooke Place on Monday.
Moors 260 (Shantha Kalavitigoda 88, Nadeera Nawela 46), Chilaw Marians (197/5 o’night) 265 for 7 declared (Janaka Gunaratne 50, Amal Athulathmudali 45)-JNW

Fonseka reiterates his allegation:

NFF Leader Wimal Weerawansa said Opposition Leader Ra..

With less than a month to go for the next presidential election, we have politicians trading mud wit..

Five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, many Sri Lankans still find the losses hard to bear - but..

Ven. Dambara Amila Thera was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) yesterday, aft..

Colombo – Badulla trains run only up to Nanuoya as earthslips have blocked the tracks near Ohiya station-Railway Control Room-JNW

First, the good news. Sri Lanka’s government, whose 26-year war against the separatist Tamil Tigers ended in total victory last May, is keeping its promise to let all of the 300,000 Tamil civilians who were captured in the final battle go home again.

Dec 28, Colombo: Indian authorities have denied permission for Sri Lanka Tamil national Alliance parliamentarian and presidential candidate M.K. Sivajilingam to enter the country.

Dec 28, Colombo: Abandonment of the fifth and last One Day International (ODI) between Sri Lanka and India at the New Delhi’s the Feroz Shah Kotla ground due to the dangerous pitch may cost India its chances of hosting matches in New Delhi for the 2011 World Cup.

Tamil activists from Washington D.C. metro area and suburbs engaged in “boycott Sri Lanka campaign” focused their attention on the GAP and Banana Republic stores in the historic Old Town, Alexandria where they held a protest Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Many Marylanders crossed the state border to Virginia to participate in the [...]

Venerable Dambara Amila Thera, the President of Patriotic National Front (PNF) was taken in for questioning by a team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police, according to a complaint by PNC Secretary and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian Vijitha Herath to the police.

Six Tamil farmers, two each from Unnichchai, Aayithimalai and Vavunatheivu in Batticaloa district were taken into custody by Maha Oya Police Saturday near the border of two districts Batticaloa and Ampaarai when they went in search of cattle that have strayed across the borders.

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna district parliamentarian M.K.Sivajilingam arrived in Colombo Saturday after Indian Immigration officials at the Thiruchchirappalli airport in South Indial refused to allow Sivajilingam to enter India to attend a conference in support of Eelam Tamils, Tamil media in Colombo reported.

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), a Sinhala Buddhist Monk party has handed
over 29 point proposals to the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse
in support of his election manifesto that is to be released during the
first week of next month. One of the proposals is to renovate and
reconstruct all Buddhist shrines and Buddhist archaeological sites
which were destroyed in the [...]

Six Tamil farmers, two each from Unnichchai, Aayithimalai and
Vavu’natheevu in Batticaloa district were taken into custody by Maha
Oya Police Saturday near the border of two districts Batticaloa and
Ampaa’rai when they went in search of their strayed cattle.

Dec 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Common Left candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne warned the Sri Lankan electorate not to be caught in a “deadly game of chess…

It is a shame for BCCI who could not deliver a pitch worthy of Test Cricket! India was almost on the verge of winning as Sri Lanka struggled. But the match was abandoned resulting in massive riots.

Dec 27, Minuwangoda: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said the opposition has not put forward a clear policy to develop the country whereas the government has submitted a very clear list of policies to create a conducive society for the future generation.

Unfit pitch conditions forced the final one-day international between India and Sri Lanka to be abandoned.

Dec 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka opposition party parliamentarian is accused of assaulting a Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) activist in Kurunegala, the police said.

Dec 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigations Department today arrested the politically active Venerable Dambara Amila Thero, the President of the National Patriotic Centre over complaints of fraud.

Statistical highlights of the 5th ODI, between India and Sri Lanka at the Ferozeshah Kotla, in New Delhi, on Sunday

Dec 27, Colombo: Two international organizations will be sending representatives to monitor the presidential elections in Sri Lanka while the European Union and the United Nations have not yet responded positively.

Dec 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Government Printer and the workers of the Government Printing Department contribute their one-day salary to the ‘Api Wenuwen Api’, the housing fund for soldiers.

Seven months after the bloody civil war ended in Sri Lanka, Indian companies that are already workin..

Agencies New Delhi, Dec 27: The Ferozeshah Kotla stood disgraced on Sunday after the fifth and final India-Sri Lanka One-dayer was abandoned because of a dangerous pitch, which not only brought about an embarrassing end to the series but also put a question mark over its stature as an international venue.

Dec 27, Colombo: All the forces that opposed the government’s rescue operation against the terrorism now have joined together as a one party against the government to betray the country to international forces, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said today.

(Lanka-e-News 27.Dec.2009 8.30PM -Political Analysis-By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya) “Nero’s excesses were overtaken by disaster. Whether it was accidental or caused by the emperor’s criminal…

(Lanka-e-News 27.Dec.2009 8.30PM) A section of the JVP which left the party in the past on various grounds is to support the opposition…

(Lanka-e-News 27.Dec.2009 8.30PM) President of the Patriotic National center and Buddhist prelate Dr. Dambara Amilo Thero was arrested at his Temple premises by the CID…

(Lanka-e-News 27.Dec.2009 8.30PM) Opposition common Presidential candidate Gen. Sarath Fonseka said, because the Sunday Leader Editor came and cried before me I did not want…

MK Sivajilingam, MP, says that he was deported by the authorities at Chennai airport on Saturday.

Nearly 500 million USD tsunami funds have ‘gone missing’, corruption watchdog TISL says.

Venerable Dambara Amila Thera, the President of Patriotic National Front (PNF) was taken in for questioning by a team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police, according to a complaint by PNC Secretary and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian Vijitha Herath to the police.

NEW DELHI -Unfit pitch conditions at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium forced the fifth and final one-day international between India and Sri Lanka to be abandoned on Sunday. Read more…

The final one-day international between India and Sri Lanka is abandoned in Delhi.

Countries across the Indian Ocean have been marking the fifth anniversary of the catastrophic tsunami that killed almost 250,000 people

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna transported nearly a thousand people in vehicles to Thaazhaiyadi in Jaffna Saturday where a memorial event was held for the victims killed by tsunami tidal wave five years ago, sources in Jaffna said. Tsunami had claimed 956 lives in Uduththu’rai area, 76 in Ma’natkaadu and 16 in Maathakal in [...]

Final one-dayer between India and Sri Lanka is called off due to unfit playing conditions at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi.

Unfit pitch conditions at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium forced the fifth and final one-day international between India and Sri Lanka to be abandoned on Sunday.