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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa waves to supporters after elections results were announced in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Riding high on his battlefield victory…

Sri Lanka A overhauled Ireland’s 147 for 5 with an over to spare in the second Twenty20 warm-up game played at the Nondescripts Ground in Colombo today. The Sri Lankans had been in some strife at 54 for 5 before their recovery, with Chinthaka Jayasinghe,

The second day of the British Tamil referendum on the question of independence for Eezham Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka began Sunday. Polling stations opened at 10:00 a.m. across London and report once again an incessant stream of eager voters. Those who had been at work Saturday were keen to partake in the [...]

Riding high on his battlefield victory against the Tamil Tiger rebels and his landslide re-election, Sri Lanka’s president appears under little pressure to tackle the deep ethnic tensions that fueled a generation of conflict here.

Riding high on his battlefield victory against the Tamil Tiger rebels and his landslide re-election, Sri Lanka’s president appears under little pressure to tackle the deep ethnic tensions that fueled a generation of conflict here.

Jan 31, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has taken measures to improve the aging power transmission network in rural areas of the country with the support from the Asia Development Bank.

Media groups in Sri Lanka yesterday accused the government of detaining a senior editor and shutting down his newspaper because the publication backed the losing opposition candidate in elections.

(Lankae-News 31.Jan.2010 5.45PM) CMEV remains gravely concerned regarding the continued trend of post election violence, which is the highest seen when compared with the 1999 (76 incidents) and 2005 (39 incidents) Presidential Elections…

(Lanka-e-News 31.Jan.2010 7.45PM) At a special Press briefing on the 28th with the participation of all the front line leaders , headed by UNP and opposition Leader Ranil…

(Lanka-e-News 31.Jan.2010 8′00PM) Sine 26th January , the most popular website among Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and abroad has been obstructed depriving the viewers from…

(Lanka-e-News 31.Jan.2010 8.00PM) The Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake deeply regretted that this is the first time , at a Presidential election, the District presiding….

India says it is working with Sri Lanka to work out a political solution that will “satisfy all communities”.

Jan 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister has invited the expatriate Tamils to help the Sri Lankan government to develop Jaffna, the Tamil stronghold in the North into a commercial hub.

Jan 31, Colombo: Private Sector employees of Sri Lanka are to receive a pay raise, the Labour Ministry announced.

Jan 31, Colombo: Indian government is working with the government of Sri Lanka on a solution to the ethnic conflict that is satisfactory for all the communities in the country, an Indian official said.

I love my country as I love my mother. That’s why I have come to vote in the referendum, says 90-year-old Sathyabhama Kumaraswamy who came to cast her vote in a booth in London Saturday. For her, who was a teacher for 37 years at Mankaiyarkkarasi Viththiyaasaalai in Nalloor, Jaffna, country means the country of [...]

Mr. Ekneligoda’s wife pleads that he be freed by whoever is holding him, one week after the mysterious disappearance.

Karin Wenger of Swiss Public Radio has been allowed to stay by Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse, Colombo media sources said quoting the Government Information Department. Wenger was one of more than one hundred foreign journalist in Sri Lanka to cover the Presidential elections.

(Lanka-e-News 31.Jan.2010 5.15PM)Police raided the office of Sri Lanka’s losing presidential candidate on Friday and arrested 15 ex-military members of his staff, aides said, two days after troops surrounded his hotel on suspicion of a…

(Lanka-e-News 31.Jan.2010 5.30PM) 2010 Presidential Election in Sri Lanka is over. However, political developments unfolded during the last few weeks, revealed prevalence of deep rooted ethnic division in the country. Most…

Weightlifter Chinthana Vidanage bagged a gold medal for Sri Lanka in 69 Kg weight category at 3rd day of the 11th South Asian Games in Dhaka-JNW

COLOMBO (AFP) - Media groups in Sri Lanka on Sunday accused the government of detaining a senior editor and shutting down his newspaper because the publication backed the losing opposition candidate in elections.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Rohitha Bogollagama paid a sudden visit to Jaffna Saturday where he said that he has come to explore the possibility of establishing an office of the Foreign Ministry for expatriate Tamils in Jaffna, sources in Jaffna said. Meanwhile, it is being said in the media circle that Rohitha had been sent [...]

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered the revoking of an expulsion order served on a visiting Swiss journalist, presidential media office said on Sunday. Karen Wenger had been asked to leave by Feb. 1 following a question she had raised at a government press conference concerning Tuesday’s presidential election. She was accused of damaging [...]

Weightlifter Kamal Bandara wins 1st Gold medal for Sri Lanka in 11th South Asian Games in Bangladesh, in 56kg category-report-JNW

As the first day of voting in Britain’s referendum comes to an end, preliminary reports indicate that several thousands of British Tamils have cast their vote, reports TamilNet UK correspondent Saturday. The referendum is to re-mandate the fundamentals of the Vaddukoaddai Resolution passed in 1976, which Tamils overwhelmingly mandated in the 1977 general elections proclaiming [...]

As the first day of voting in Britain’s referendum comes to an end, preliminary reports indicate that several thousands of British Tamils have cast their vote, reports TamilNet UK correspondent Saturday. The referendum is to re-mandate the fundamentals of the Vaddukoaddai Resolution passed in 1976, which Tamils overwhelmingly mandated in the 1977 general elections proclaiming [...]

Chennai, Jan 31 : Newly appointed National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon today said the Centre was continuously holding talks with Sri Lanka on resettlement of Tamils with adequate devolvement of powers.

An expulsion order served on a visiting Swiss journalist in Sri Lanka has been revoked; the presidential media office said in Colombo on Sunday.

COLOMBO, Jan 31 (Bernama) — In Sri Lanka’s ethnic cocoon, the minority Malay population is searching for more political space to voice their socio-economic rights.

Colombo, Jan.31 : Factory workers in Sri Lanka are struggling to survive on basic wages as low as 25 pence an hour to produce clothes for leading British retailers, who say they abide by an ethical trading initiative intended to protect employees’ rights.

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse on Sunday revoked an expulsion order against a Swiss reporter who covered the island’s fiercely fought election.

Jan 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education is to recruit 3,000 graduates as aesthetic teachers, a Ministry official said.

An official says Sri Lanka’s president has revoked the expulsion of a Swiss radio journalist who asked a critical question at a government news conference.

Colombo, Jan 31 (IANS) An expulsion order served on a visiting Swiss journalist in Sri Lanka has been revoked, the presidential media office said here Sunday.

Jan 31, Colombo: The cancellation of a Swiss radio correspondent’s visa has been revoked and under a directive of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and she is allowed to stay, government sources said.

Jan 31, Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities have handed over a batch of 56 rehabilitated LTTE cadres to their parents recently.

Chandana Sirimalwatte, editor of “Lanka” a Sinhala weekly newspaper has been detained further with regard to an article over a mansion in Kataragama owned by a ministry secretary. Srimalwatte was taken from his office by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday morning.

Sri Lankan authorities are to cancel the visa of Karin Wenger, a journalist attached to Swiss Public Radio based in New Delhi, who was in Sri Lanka to cover the recently concluded Presidential elections. Colombo was irked by the journalist’s probing questions at a government press briefing which had caused “discomfort” to the government minister [...]

Australia won the under-19 cricket World Cup tournament on Saturday beating Pakistan by 25 runs in the final at Christchurch. Sri Lanka 19’s finished the tournament in fourth place after West Indies beats Sri Lanka by 4 wickets in the 3rd place play-off match held on Friday-JNW

Former military spokesman Major General Daya Ratnayake has been appointed the Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) with immadiate effect on Saturday, defense sources from Colombo said. Major General Daya Ratnayake was earlier the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation.

Police in Sri Lanka shut down the offices of an opposition newspaper yesterday, the weekly said, as international rights groups accused the authorities of a vendetta against critical media.

Initial reports indicate close to a thousand votes have been cast in the first hour of voting in the referendum being held in the UK this weekend. British Tamils are holding the referendum to re-mandate the Vaddukoddai Resolution passed in 1976, demanding an independent state of Tamil Eelam for the Tamils living in the island [...]

DHAKA: The Indian volleyball side too had a winning start when it beat Sri Lanka 3-1 at the Indian Shahid Soharwardy indoor stadium in Mirpur. Indian spikers took the lead 25-23, 25-19 before opponents gave them a scare taking the third …

SA GAMES: CYCLING: Sri Lanka women cyclists won the first medal - a bronze in the 30-kilometre Road Team Trixi on the second day of the 11th South Asian Games held at BKSP, Khutna, out of the Dhaka City here on Saturday.

For the first time Sri Lanka’s budget airline, Mihin Lanka has taken to tourism promotion by flying in a group of over 50 travellers from Kuwait.

Sri Lanka received major world recognition when it was ranked as the eighth fastest growing economy in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) of the United States.

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field first. The match played in Bangladesh at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur.

Tamils in Myanmar impressively consecrated a renovated Perumaa’l temple in Yangon on Wednesday morning. Several thousands of Tamils participated in the ceremonies. A 13th century Tamil inscription in Myanmar records that a Perumaa’l temple patronized by Tamils existed at the earlier capital at Pagan.

General Sarath Fonseka accused the government of harassing him by reducing his security detail and arresting his office staff.

Eelam People’s Democracy Party (EPDP) supporters set fire to a Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus Saturday morning in a shutdown protest demanding Minister Douglas Devananda not to resign his post, sources in Jaffna said. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers forced open the few shops in Jaffna town which had been closed in fear of [...]

Jan 30, Colombo: Sri Lankan government embarking on a vicious vendetta against the common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka is undemocratic and conspiratorial, the main opposition leader, Ranil Wickremasinghe says.

Jan 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka threatened to reveal the government’s secrets if the government does not stop harassing on drummed up assassination charges and something happens to him.

Sri Lanka’s losing presidential candidate on Saturday vowed protests against what he said was his stolen victory and accused the government of removing his personal security as part of an “indirect assassination attempt.”

Sri Lanka’s losing presidential candidate on Saturday vowed protests against what he said was his stolen victory and accused the government of removing his personal security as part of an “indirect assassination attempt.”

Source: Reuters * Fonseka vows protests against "stolen" election

* Accuses govt of removing his personal security

* Police seal offices of pro-opposition newspaper

By Ranga Sirilal

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Chandana Sirimalwatte, editor of “Lanka” a Sinhala weekly newspaper has been detained further with regard to an article over a mansion in Kataragama owned by a ministry secretary. Srimalwatte was taken from his office by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday morning.

Jan 30, Kandy: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today paid homage to the Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of The Tooth) after his re-election as the country’s 6th executive president on Wednesday.

Sri Lankan authorities are to cancel the visa of Karin Wenger, a journalist attached to Swiss Public Radio based in New Delhi, who was in Sri Lanka to cover the recently concluded Presidential elections. Colombo was irked by the journalist’s probing questions at a government press briefing which had caused “discomfort” to the government minister [...]