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Sri Lanka names provisional squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies in April and May.

Any sort of begging will be banned inside trains from April 01, Commercial Director of Sri Lanka Railways Wijaya Samarasinghe told Adaderana this morning (March 28).

A new General Court Martial (GCM) to hear charges of fraudulent military deals against retired General Sarath Fonseka is to comprise Major General Milinda Peiris (President), Major General Lalith Daulagala and Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe.

Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said the dialogue with the UN was continuing to assert Sri Lanka’s position that an advisory panel to focus on Sri Lanka’s accountability issues, was unwarranted.

Kings XI Punjab captain Kumar Sangakkara has been banned for one match after his side was found to be guilty of slow over-rate for the third time in the ongoing Indian Premier League III.

Sri Lankan police has announced a Rs one million reward for information on Danuna Tillekaratne, the son-in-law of detained ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, over alleged profits made by his firm from illegal defence deals.

The United States has turned down a request by the Defence Ministry to provide advanced training for Sri Lankan military officers, citing human rights concerns.

It is not necessary to get a two thirds majority to change the current electoral system, according to UPFA Ratnapura District candidate Vasudeva Nanayakkara.

India denied opportunity to prosecute Pakistan-born man involved in Mumbai massacre. During Eelam Wa..

“Sri Lanka 60 Years of ‘Independence’ and Beyond” a publication by Switzerland based NGO, Center for Just Peade and Democracy (CJPD), and edited by Program Director at CJPD, Ana Pararajasingham, was launched at the popular Gleebooks bookshop in the heart of Sydney Friday. John Murphy, Member of the Australian Parliament, David Feith, [...]

“Sri Lanka 60 Years of ‘Independence’ and Beyond” a publication by Switzerland based NGO, Center for Just Peade and Democracy (CJPD), and edited by Program Director at CJPD, Ana Pararajasingham, was launched at the popular Gleebooks bookshop in the heart of Sydney Friday. John Murphy, Member of the Australian Parliament, David Feith, [...]

Mar 28, Colombo: International football star, David Beckham has reportedly been offered the services of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s spiritual healer and personal physician to help him get back on the field within three days.

Mar 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Elections Department is to make the necessary arrangements for 45,969 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to cast their votes at the April 8 general election.

Mar 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Mass Media and Information Ministry has called on every journalist in the country to submit a declaration of their assets by April 30, 2010.

March 25 (Bloomberg) — John Keells Holdings Plc ., Sri Lanka’s biggest company, is yet to see the full “peace dividend” from the end to the county’s 26-year-long civil war reflected in its shares, its deputy chairman said.

Vanni uprooted faimiles resettled in haste by the Sri Lanka government without any basic facilities or proper structures have sought refuge under trees as persistent rain, gale and floods had destroyed their temporary tents and tin-roofed shacks, sources in Vanni said. There are no solid buildiings for them to seek shelter in as all of [...]

Chaavakachcheari police recovered Saturday the body of the 17-year-old student who was abducted from his house in Madaththadi in Chaavakachcheari North on 14 March for a ransom of 30 million rupees, from the backyard of a house on Dutch Road in Chaavakachcheari, sources in Jaffna said. The body was recovered from the plantain garden in [...]

More than 40 candidates, including talented Tamil youth of the second generation, have come forward to participate as candidates in the elections for the country council of Eezham Tamils in Switzerland across 26 cantons of Switzerland. Two of the candidates are non-Tamils. The voting to elect 25 representatives of the Swiss Council of Eezham Tamils [...]

Sri Lanka 60 Years of ‘Independence’ and Beyond” a publication by Switzerland based NGO, Center for Just Peade and Democracy (CJPD), and edited by Program Director at CJPD, Ana Pararajasingham, was launched at the popular Gleebooks bookshop in the heart of Sydney Friday. John Murphy, Member of the Australian Parliament, David Feith, an academic attached [...]

More than 100 people have been arrested in Sri lanka following violence in the run-up to parliamentary elections on April 8, reports said yesterday.

Economic and Commercial Counselor of Indian High Commission (IHC) in Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha, accompanied by his assistant Dinesh Kumar, met Jaffna Government Agent (GA), K. Ganesh, Friday at Jaffna Secretariat to discuss matters related to finding a suitable location in Jaffna to open a branch of Colombo IHC, sources in Jaffna said. Though it [...]

Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said the dialogue with the UN was continuing to assert Sri Lanka’s position that an advisory panel to focus on Sri Lanka’s accountability issues, was unwarranted.

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

Minor adjustments in the tax structure will help Sri Lanka to be a global financial hub spinning money for development, said Tax Consultant and Chartered Accountant, Gajma and Co., N. R. Gajendran.

Demographic genocide of Trincomalee cannot be stopped unless the two-nation reality in the island is recognised. Tomorrow even Jaffna will have the fate of Trincomalee, warned S. Varatharajan, the main candidate of Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) for the Jaffna District. Based on official census, the economic teacher came out with a graphic presentation [...]

Two thousand and five hundred members of seven hundred and ninety four
uprooted families from Champoor in Moothoor East have been undergoing
untold hardships without drinking water and water facilities for
bathing purposes in temporary shelters which are located in
Ki’liveddi, Paddiththidal and Ma’nalcheanai in Moothoor Divisional
Secretariat (DS) division.

Vanni uprooted faimiles resettled in haste by the Sri Lanka government without any basic facilities or proper structures have sought refuge under trees as persistent rain, gale and floods had destroyed their temporary tents and tin-roofed shacks, sources in Vanni said. There are no solid buildiings for them to seek shelter in as all of [...]

Mar 27, Colombo: Helitours, Sri Lanka’s premier domestic flight service operated by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) is becoming a popular mode of transportation between the North and the South.

Mar 27, Colombo: A popular Sri Lankan singer Abeywardena Balasuriya has passed away today after a lengthy illness. He was 63.

Mar 27, Colombo: The Interpol has issued an arrest warrant yesterday on the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization chief in Sri Lanka, an ITN report said.

Mar 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka will join 4,000 cities around the world and plunge into darkness on Saturday for an hour at 8:30 p.m. local time to observe the “Earth Hour”.

Mar 27, Ja-Ela: An era for the country’s people to reap the benefits of development has been ushered in with the Uthuru Wasanthaya (Northern Spring) and Neganahira Navodaya (Eastern Awakening) programs, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

(Lanka-e-News, March 27, 2010, 6.45PM) Popular singer Abeywardena Balasuriya passed away this noon (27). He was for sometime hospitalized, and he was 63 years old at the time of his death…

(Lanka-e-News, March 27, 2010, 6.45PM) The Center for monitoring election violence (CMEV) after a survey of the manner in which the postal voting was conducted on the 26th for the General elections 2010, said,…

Mar 27, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has received a grant of nearly three billion rupees from the Government of Japan to develop the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.

Mar 27, Colombo: Sri Lankan government has expedited the resettlement of the Internally Displaced Civilians (IDPs) living in the welfare camps in order to bring normalcy to the war battered region.

Economic and Commercial Counselor of Indian High Commission (IHC) in Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha, accompanied by his assistant Dinesh Kumar, met Jaffna Government Agent (GA), K. Ganesh, Friday at Jaffna Secretariat to discuss matters related to finding a suitable location in Jaffna to open a branch of Colombo IHC, sources in Jaffna said. Though it [...]

(Lanka-e-News, March 27, 2010, 6.00PM) Former Chief Justice Sarath Silva speaking at a meeting of intellectuals and professionals at Anuradhapura memorial Hall said, if our rulers are continuing to violate the sacrosanct constitution and the laws of the country,…

Sri Lanka’s president has offered the services of his spiritual healer and personal physician to help injured footballer David Beckham get back on the field within three days.

About one hundred persons have been taken into custody for election
related violence including intimidation and breaking election laws
since nominations were handed over for the forthcoming general
election and about 234 persons are
evading arrest, according to Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police,
Gamini Seneviratne, who is in charge of the Election Unit.

The Commissioner of Elections Dayananda Dissanayake Friday announced
that election monitors would be allowed to be present and supervise
counting in counting centres in the forthcoming general election. He
made this announcement at a conference he had with representatives of
political parties Friday in his Election Secretariat in Rajagiriya.
One member from each monitoring group would be allowed to be [...]

The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) reported several instances of illegal canvassing near postal voting centres located in government buildings as postal voting concluded in Sri Lanka Friday. Field monitors of the CMEV reported an incident in which two women claimed to be representatives of Basil Rajapakse, brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is [...]

Sri Lanka’s president has offered the services of his spiritual healer and personal physician to help injured footballer David Beckham get back on the field within three days.

President Mahinda Rajapakse lifted the two-year ban on top national rugby players from Kandy SC and CH and FC. This was announced on Friday evening at a rugby awards ceremony held at Galle Face hotel which was graced by the President as Chief Guest.
Fifteen star players were banned from representing Sri Lanka by Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge last [...]

An author who wrote a book about her conversion from Buddhism to Islam has been arrested in Sri Lanka.

A top US military official says the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group, predominately a threat to India, is fast expanding operations to other South Asian countries including Sri Lanka.

The first phase of the Hambantota harbour construction will be completed by August this year and it will be followed by the process of filling the harbour with sea water and the construction will cost…

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, on behalf of the Government, successfully completed the 1st issue of Sri Lanka Development Bonds (SLDBs) in 2010, today.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that the country needs an efficient Parliament instead of one that is only engaged in criticism.The President made this observation while addressing a public rally in Bibila recently.

More than 17,000 motorcycles; 150,000 bicycles and about 1,000 water pumps belonging to displaced people and abandoned during the last stages of the war in Mullaitivu are still lying in the Puthumatalan area under the protection of…

Sri Lanka is experiencing a double in terms of heat. One is the natural sweltering heat while the other is the heat triggered by the upcoming general elections due on April 8.

Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka has requested all Government Institutions to switch off their lights from 8.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. to observe the Earth Hour (EH) today (27).

Addressing the inauguration ceremony of the country’s largest Divisional Secretariat building in Maharagama, the President opined he believed it is important that the people should always be served in a sensitive manner.

An author who wrote a book about her conversion from Buddhism to Islam has been arrested in Sri Lanka accused of unspecified “anti-state” activities, police said Saturday.

Mar 27, Colombo: The two-day postal voting for Sri Lanka’s upcoming general election ended yesterday with about 80 percent turnout, the election officials reported.

The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) reported several instances of illegal canvassing near postal voting centres located in government buildings as postal voting concluded in Sri Lanka Friday. Field monitors of the CMEV reported an incident in which two women claimed to be representatives of Basil Rajapakse, brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is [...]

(Lanka-e-News, March 27, 2010, 9.00AM) At the postal voting conducted on the 25th for the General election April 25th, it became very clear by the outrageous and open violations of the election laws indulged in by the Govt…

India denied opportunity to prosecute Pakistan-born man involved in Mumbai massacre. During Eelam Wa..

Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena declined to comment on the attack. Claiming that ..