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Undergraduates are planning to launch a protest campaign against the government s move to set up pri..

Five male bodies estimated to be between 20 to 35 years of age, in highly decomposed state and packed securely in five separate bags were exhumed from the toilet pit of a house in Ka’neasapuram in Ki’linochchi under the supervision of Vavuniyaa Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) Dr. P. Sritharan and in the presence of Ki’linochchi [...]

The United Nations human rights chief called on Sri Lanka to allow an international probe into the government’s final offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels last year.

The United Nations human rights chief, Navaneetham Pillay Monday reiterated her call for an “independent international probe” into Sri Lanka Government’s final offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the final months of the war in 2009. While noting the appointment of “post-war reconciliation commission” by Colombo, Navi Pillay said, “based on previous [...]

Five bodies recovered from a toilet pit in Ganeshapuram, Kilinochchi has been sent to Vavunia for further identification.

The UNP is entertaining views and suggestions in the next three days regarding the restructuring of the party, said its spokesman Gayantha Karunatilake.

Chandran Ratnam, internationally famed Tamil film producer was
released Monday the Gangodawila Magistrate without any charges against
him.Ratnam was arrested by the police last week for allegedly
possessing explosive materials in his former residence in Nugegoda.

Bollywood’s leading stars may skip their annual awards festival, which is being held in Sri Lanka this week, following protests from pro-Tamil rebel lobbies in India, officials said Monday.

May 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka is planning to hold the first nationwide census in 30 years, the Hindu reported.

May 31, Colombo: Ceylon Teachers’ Union President Joseph Stalin Fernando points out that a group of some gifted students that sat for the G.C.E. (Ordinary Level) examination in English medium are facing a serious injustice due to the lack of plan in the education sector of Sri Lanka.

May 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s commercial hub, the city of Colombo, is gearing up for the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) scheduled to be held in Colombo from June 3-5.

Human Rights Commision calls for international involvement in probing alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka’s war.

May 31, Geneva: The United Nations Human Rights chief Monday reiterated her call for an independent international inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the last stages of Sri Lanka’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers.

May 31, Colombo: For the third consecutive month Sri Lanka’s inflation decreased to 5.3 percent in May from a 5.8 percent in April 2010, Central Bank’s Department of Census and Statistics figures released today showed.

Cricket’s governing body in Sri Lanka is among the island nation’s most dishonest institutions, the country’s new sports minister says.

The government has decided to establish district level committees which encompass all religions. Buddha Shasana Religious Affairs Minister and Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne will initiate the programme and appoint committees…

The United Nations human rights chief maintained Monday that Sri Lanka needed an international probe into the government’s final offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels last year.

The recent UN Medal Parade ceremony of Haiti-based Sri Lankan Peace-Keeping contingent drew overwhelming admiration of the attendees, present on the occasion, as it turned out to be a blend of both military and culture.

Excise sleuths arrested over 1,000 persons who sold liquor and drugs during the Vesak Season.

Film Producer and Director Chandran Ratnam was released without any charges against him by the Gangodawila Magistrate today.

Colombo: Sri Lanka will undertake the mammoth task of counting its population for the first time in three decades, with its first post war census next year.

The Engineering faculty and NDT section of Moratuwa University has been closed indefinitely following a clash between two student groups late last night (May 30), the University Vice Chancellor Prof. Malik Ranasinghe.

He would immediately resign from the post of President of the Select Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket if there is undue interference in the affairs of the committee says Aravinda Silva. He said this addressing the media for…

(Lanka-e-News, May 31, 2010, 9.40 AM) The deeply grieving and shocked relatives of the 115 navy officers who died in the Dambulla ‘Digamapathana’ bomb tragedy are absolutely dismayed and disappointed at the suppression of….

May 31, Colombo: Veteran Sri Lankan film producer and director Chandran Rutnam was released without any charges against him by the Gangodawila Magistrate today (31).

May 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Moratuwa University has been closed indefinitely following a clash between students in the Engineering Faculty and the NDT section yesterday (30) night.

Former skipper Aravinda de Silva has been appointed Sri Lanka’s chief cricket selector tasked with preparing a team for the World Cup just nine months away. The new selection panel also includes former national wicketkeeper and television commentator Ranjith Fernando, former national player Amal Silva and Shabir Asgaraly, a former first-class cricketer.

May 31, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is hopeful of shutting down all emergency relief camps that were set up to house flood victims during the recent torrential rains experienced in many parts of the island.

Film Producer Chandran Ratnam’s case was dismissed and he is released without any charges by Gangodawila Magistrate-reporter-JNW

May 31, Colombo: The Sri Lanka Navy under the direction of its Commander Vice Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe has decided to extend the routes of the canal boat service recently launched along the Wellawatte canal.

May 31, Colombo: The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has warned of a possible dengue epidemic in the next few weeks following the identification of 10 dengue patients during the last 10 days and 20 patients during the month of May in the City of Colombo.

(Lanka-e-News, May 31, 2010, 10.00AM) The UNP Committee appointed for re organization of the party is unable to carry out its functions independently because it is being influenced by…

(Lanka-e-News, May 31, 2010, 10.00AM) It is reported that the Wesak celebrations by the Govt. security Forces in the Tamil and Muslim villages in the East has…

John Keells Holdings Grp full-year profit after tax up 10% to Rs5.2bil; result satisfactory, potential to exceed this in near future-chairman-JNW

(Lanka-e-News, May 31, 2010, 9.40 AM) The deeply grieving and shocked relatives of the 115 navy officers who died in the Dambulla ‘Digamapathana’ bomb tragedy are absolutely dismayed and disappointed at the suppression of….

The beleaguered UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, in a two-part interview with this newspaper on Frid..

Sri Lankan mobile phone market has immense potential for growth and there is a huge untapped telecom..

Hemakumara Nanayakkara, a one time firebrand Minister in the UPFA Govt. and younger brother of Vasud..

I always say that police powers can t be given to provinces, President Mahinda Rajapaksa told Indian..

Minister of Petroleum Industries Susil Premajayanth says although he is the minister in charge of pe..

The newly appointed Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Vidya Amarapala says that the op..

Public organizations in Moo’laay in Jaffna observed Sunday the third death anniversary of Jaffna correspondent of Sakthi TV station, Paranirupasingam Thevakumar, 34, abducted while he was returning to his residence in Moo’laay and hacked to death in Kaakkaitheevu, a barren land near Naavaanthu’rai in Jaffna on 28 May 2008, in Ganesha Community Centre Hall in [...]

The leader of Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) Douglas Devananda, a cabinet minister in the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), who continues to publicly accuse the three Tamil dailies published in Jaffna of having denied him and his party equal opportunity and sufficient cooperation during the last parliamentary elections, is actively engaged in launching [...]

The plastic bags containing six corpses found dumped in a toilet pit of a house in Kaneasapuram in Ki’linochchi are to be dug out Monday in the presence of the Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) from Vavuniyaa Government Hospital, on the directive of Ki’linochchi magistrate who visited the site. Members of the family resettled in the [...]

A well known film producer and director of several films Chandran
Ratnam was taken into custody by the police Sunday on an allegation that he had been in possesion of explosive materials in his former residence in Nugegoda, according to police media spokesman Preshantha Jayakody.

A well known film producer and director of several films Chandran
Ratnam was taken into custody by the police Sunday on an allegation
that he had been in possesion of explosive materials in his former
residence in Nugegoda, according to police media spokesman Preshantha
Jayakody.

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) forces that occupy Vanni after the recent war have put up new name boards in Sinhala language only with new Sinhala names for many road junctions and streets in Mullaiththeevu district. SLA, besides erecting special camps and High Security Zones in strategic places in Mullaiththeevu, is engaged in changing the entire [...]

May 30, Colombo: The newly appointed Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Vidya Amarapala says that the operational loss of the CEB in 2010 would be something between 34 to 40 billion rupees.

Sharma century enough this time

May 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka state-owned Transport Board will provide jobs for 100 rehabilitated former Tamil Tiger child soldiers.

May 30, Colombo: Two school-age boys have drowned in a canal in Udawalawa in the deep south of Sri Lanka trying to retrieve a kite that fell in the canal, the police said.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (AP) — Scoreboard Sunday in the second tri-nations series match between India and Sri Lanka at Queens Sports Club: Sri Lanka Innings Upul Tharanga run out 1 Tillakaratne Dilshan run out 61 Tilan Samaraweera st Karthik b Ojha 19 Angelo Mathews bowled Yadav 75 Chamara Kapugedera c Vijay b Jadeja 20 Chamara Silva [...]

May 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka police have arrested the acclaimed Sri Lankan film director and producer Chandran Rutnam after police found explosives at a former residence of him in Nugegoda.

May 30, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told the Times of India in an interview that police power could not be given to provinces.

(Lanka-e-News, May 30, 2010,5.45 PM) Apsara Fonseka, daughter of General Sarath Fonseka, has handed over a letter to the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton last Friday.

This letter was…

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (AP) — India beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the second tri-nations series match at Queens Sports Club: Scores: Sri Lanka 242 all out in 49.5 overs (Angelo Mathews 75, Tillakaratne Dilshan 61; Ashok Dinda 2-44, Pragyan Ojha 2-44). India 243-3 (Rohit Sharma 101 not out, Virat Kohli 82).

Malnutrition among children in the North and Eastern provinces has
reached forty-five percent against the national average of 29 percent,
according to a report issued by the Demographic and Health Survey
(DHS).

Ace Sri Lankan cricketers Kumar Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya believe that IIFA Awards 2010, to be held in Colombo, is a ‘big opportunity’ to promote Sri Lanka in Bollywood and foster a better relationship between the two countries.

Private bus operators are seeking a fare hike by around seven per cent from July this year.

While parliament has been accused of wasting food in its subsidized restaurants, successive Sri Lankan governments continue to depend on World Food Program(WFP) to feed the poor segments of the population and the war displaced.