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Apr 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka stock market reached another high Thursday (29) at the Colombo Stock Exchange as local investors purchased shares while their foreign counterparts took profits from recently gained stocks.

The Indian prime minister,Dr. Manmohan Singh and Presidient Mahinda Rajapaksa had bilateral talks in Thimpu, Bhutan.

The Indian and Pakistani prime ministers have met at a regional summit in Bhutan, their first major direct talks since last July.

Apr 29, Colombo: A Tamil politician has claimed that the Sri Lankan security forces have demolished the house of late LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran’s parents situated at Valvettithurai in the Jaffna peninsula.

The Sri Lankan ancestral home of Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is demolished, Tamil officials say.

The ancestral home of Sri Lanka`s slain Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has been demo..

Apr 29, Colombo: The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, is organizing a seminar on the new procedures for applying for a visa to the United States.

Apr 29, Colombo: India will continue to support the development and reconstruction activities in embattled northern region of Sri Lanka Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Ashok K. Kantha pledged today.

Apr 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa along with his security forces chiefs toured the Jaffna peninsula to evaluate the post-war security concerns and other related developments in the region.

Apr 29, Thimpu: President Mahinda Rajapaksa and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Thursday evening at the Grand Assembly Hall and held bilateral discussions on the sidelines of the 16th SAARC Summit in Thimpu in Bhutan.

Apr 29, Colombo: Former Army Commander and Colombo district parliamentarian General (Retired) Sarath Fonseka is to speak in parliament during the debate for the extension of the emergency regulations next week.

Contrary to the Sri Lanka government propaganda of opening a branch of the Indian High Commission Colombo office in Jaffna, a private firm will be opening an office at Brown Road in Jaffna 5 May which will receive visa applications to India and send them for processing in the Indian High Commission for Sri Lanka [...]

Apr 29, Thimpu: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his delegation called on the King of Bhutan HM King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Thursday (29) at the Sri Lanka Guest House in SAARC Village.

According to news in the SAARC conference it is decided between Pakistan and Sri Lanka to promote their relation in the field of defence and trade. Both the countries want to strengthen their relation. Foreign minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi was also present in the meeting.

(Lanka-e-News, April 29, 2010, 5.10PM) It is reported that the Defense Ministry has prohibited entry to the land gifted to former Army Commander Gen. Fonseka as a token of appreciation for…

President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is currently attending the SAARC heads of state conference is conducting bilateral meetings with South Asian leaders on the sidelines of the 16th SAARC Summit in Thimpu, the capital city of Bhutan.

Apr 29, Colombo: India’s High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Ashok K. Kantha, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne, today (29), the Indian High Commission in Colombo announced.

Colombo: The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, is organizing a seminar on the new procedures for applying for a visa to the United States.

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka will introduce fiscal reforms including tax changes in its 2011 budget, not in this year's as had previously been pledged, the Indian Ocean island nation's treasury secretary said on Thursday.

The election petition filed by General Sarath Fonseka challenging the election of Mahinda Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka was fixed to be heard before a five-member Supreme Court bench on July 5.

JAFFNA - Sri Lankan Muslims displaced during the country’s decades-long civil war are slowly returning home, but the challenge of reconciling with their Tamil neighbours, and their past, remains.

The Government has decided to activate the Independent Elections Commission along with the others by amending the ‘17th Amendment to the Constitution’ within the next few months, authoritative sources said yesterday.

The Democratic Peoples Front (DPF) is to meet United National Front (UNF) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP-M) leader Mangala Samaraweera today to settle the national…

Deputy Media Minister Mervyn Silva, who assumed duties at his Ministry in Colombo today, made a pledge to resign from his new post if there are allegations against him and if such allegations are proven to be true.

Amidst strong protests raised by Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians, Saiva and cultural organizations in Jaffna peninsula against the proposed construction of a star hotel in the land where the palace of last Tamil King of Jaffna Kingdom Sangkilian had stood and in the sacred vicinity of historically famous Nalloor Kanthasuvami temple, ruling United Peoples [...]

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna parliamentarian, E. Saravanbhavan publicly raised accusation against Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP), a constituent party of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA), for having appropriated exclusive rights to excavate sand for building construction in Ma’nattkaadu in Vadamaraadchi East using illegal means making millions of rupees, in a press report, [...]

Petition filed by Gen Fonseka against Presidential election to be heard before five Supreme Court judges on July 5-lawyer-JNW

The ancestral home of Sri Lanka’s slain Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has been demolished as it was becoming a tourist attraction, a Tamil politician said Thursday.

Apr 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Resettlement Minister Milroy Fernando has said the government planned to resettle all the remaining Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in camps in Vavuniya within a period of six months.

COLOMBO Sri Lanka, world champions in the 50-over format in 1996, are desperate to add the Twenty20 title to their collection after a series of near-misses.

Brendon McCullum’s prowess as a Twenty20 batsman is well known but older brother Nathan could also have an important role to play in the upcoming World Twenty20.

A fine unbeaten 61 from Chamara Kapugedera was in vain as Sri Lanka slumped to a five-wicket defeat to South Africa with three balls to spare in a World Twenty20 warm-up on Wednesday (28).
Kapugedera and veteran Sanath Jayasuriya helped Sri Lanka post 137 for 8 before a 61-run partnership between Mark Boucher and Johan Botha [...]

(Lanka-e-News 29.april.2010 8.45AM) The UNP National Lawyers’s association President Upul Jayasooriya stated that the UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is stooping…

Caritas Internationalis Caritas says Sri Lanka has yet to emerge from decades of conflict with a real peace.

Apr 29, Colombo: Opposition and United National Party Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe has drawn flak from the party representatives in the Central Provincial Council.

Apr 29, Colombo: The main opposition coalition UNF led by the United National Party (UNP) is to hold a final discussion today (29) with one of its constituent parties, the Democratic People’s Front (DPF) to resolve the crisis that has arisen over the UNP’s National List appointments.

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The reforms undertaken by
Middle Eastern and Asian governments fall far short of the minimum protections needed to tackle abuses against migrant domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said …

Bob Dietz, Asia Program Coordinator for media-watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said in the organization’s website that while there is “a lull of sorts in outright attacks on the media as the Rajapaksa government takes stock of where it stands,” the recent appointment of former Labor Minister Mervyn Silva as Sri Lanka’s deputy minister [...]

Sri Lanka rugby player Samantha Lakshman who was found guilty on his behavior at the national team’s recent tour in Singapore was banned from the game for two years by Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union disciplinary committee. The ban will be effective from April 12, 2010 to April 12 of 2012-JNW

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday called upon SAARC not to hesitate to build new structures and ..

Jaffna investors are keen on investing in banking, tourism, manufacturing and plantation stocks, sto..

Last year`s war victory is now forgotten and euphoria it created has died down. The need for restori..

Credit to the private sector has increased in February by 1.38 percent to Rs. 1,212.3 billion from R..

A group of UNP members of the Central Provincial Council (CPC) held a secret meeting at a Kandy ho..

Sri Lanka`s commercial hub, the city of Colombo is to receive a full facelift in preparation of the ..

(Lanka-e-News 29.April.2010 5.00AM) According to news reaching Lanka e news , among the 7 LTTE members who were arrested in Netherlands , there is an LTTE leader by the name of ‘Madiyasan’ who is more powerful than Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP who was arrested in Malaysia…

(Lanka-e-News 29.April.2010 5.00AM) UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and and Sajith Premadasa are to hold a meeting today(29) to discuss and decide…

(Lanka-e-News 29.April.2010 5.00AM) It is reported that Anoma Gamage is prepared to resign her MP post from the UNP National list…

Sri Lanka`s ruling party will press ahead with constitutional reforms to allow President Mahinda Raj..

The Sri Lanka High Commission in the United Kingdom conducted its first mobile service at the Birmingham Buddhist Maha Vihara on April 24.

Sri Lanka is working hard on reconciliation after the three decade war against terrorism was ended, said Sri Lankan Ambassador to US Jaliya Wickramasuriya.

The Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) Wednesday charged that more than 150 students of the Jaffna University are still being held in rehabilitation centers and are being prevented from attending classes in the University campus. IUSF made the statement on return to Colombo after a fact-finding visit to universities in Jaffna and Batticaloa, and prepared [...]

Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) leader Arumugan Thondaman and three others are
to be sworn in as Cabinet Ministers after Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa
returns from Bhutan this week, government sources said Wednesday.

Apr 28, Thimpu: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today met several South Asian leaders on the margins of the SAARC Summit in Thimpu, Bhutan.

The new minister of resettlement Milroy Fernando says that all displaced families will be resettled within the next six months.

A combined team effort set up victory with three balls to spare as South Africa brushed past Sri Lanka in their first warm-up match

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Apr 28, Colombo: Aiming to revamp his ministry and increase productivity, Sri Lanka’s new Petroleum Resources Minister Susil Premajayantha has asked all the current directors and chairmen of his ministry to hand over resignations from their posts.

An Indian engineering corporate L&T Infrastructure Development Projects is keen in road projects, high-rise buildings, apartments and hotels and power generation in Jaffna, and is looking for trade partners according to Vishal Mathur, its Chief Operating Officer. The high-rise buildings and apartments are for whom, wonder the people of Jaffna. According to Mathur, tourism would [...]

The `Dengue Control Week’ is to be launched in the country from May 3
to 9 to warn the public of possible outbreak with the onset of
monsoonal rains, according to Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry press
release. The number of dengue deaths reported this year from January
to April is seventy-five and over twelve thousand dengue cases
reported island [...]