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India has sought clearance from Sri Lanka to open two Deputy High Commission offices, one in Jaffna and another in Hambantota, in a sudden decision to upgrade its previous request for only the opening of a consulate…

Not a single student in 56 schools in the Central Province, had qualified to follow GCE A/Ls this year, education authorities making an astounding revelation about the general failure of education in the country, said.

Sports Minister CB Ratnayake is all set to reconstitute the cricket interim committee headed by DS De Silva within the next few days in an effort to put the country’s richest sports body in order before the next…

The presence of a hitherto unidentified stinging ant has caused fear in Matara town with several victims taking medical treatment.

The proposed Senate will include all Provincial Governors, five members each from Provincial councils (Palath Sabha), according to constitutional changes now being formulated.

Minister Dinesh Gunewardane pointed finger at the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) calling the establishment a failed institution. The Minister who was critical of the Council for quite some time, lashed out at the CMC again criticising…

Bulawayo: Rohit Sharma hammered his second successive ODI century as India crushed Sri Lanka by seven wickets in their second match to put their campaign back on track in the cricket tri-series here on Sunday.

India won the toss and put Sri Lanka in to bat at the Queens Sports Club here on Sunday in the second tri-nation series match that also involves the home team Zimbabwe.

India take on Sri Lanka in the Triangular Series in Zimbabwe.

May 30, Colombo: The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon is in the process of naming members to the panel of experts he will be establishing to advice him on the accountability issues of Sri Lanka’s war.

May 30, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government while maintaining that there is no threat of the LTTE raising its head again says that the Indian government’s decision to extend the ban on the terrorist organization for a further two years is a precautionary measure.

(Lanka-e-News, May 30, 2010, 11.00 AM) Cricket circles report that there has erupted a stiff competition between Basil Rajapakse and Naamal Rajapakse in regard to the appointment of the person for the post of Chairman….

(Lanka-e-News, May 30, 2010, 11.00 AM) Because a budget was not presented so far, the salary increases for Govt….

Film Producer Chandran Ratnam arrested & being questioned for having explosives at his former residence in Nugegoda-Police Spokesman-JNW

May 30, Colombo: The left parties in Sri Lanka’s governing United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), are to meet tomorrow (31) to discuss the proposed constitutional amendments by the government and to decide on a separate set of proposals that will include abolishing the Executive Presidency among other reforms.

May 30, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is considering the introduction of legislation to release prisoners over the age of 60 to ease the congestion in local prisons.

While Secretary General Ban Ki Moon extolled the contributions of the UN’s International Criminal Court (ICC) as an effective instrument to uphold peace, justice and human rights, in a Washington Post article, as UN’s member nations convene Monday in Kampala to formally review the Rome Treaty, Professor Francis A. Boyle criticized Ban for delaying action [...]

THE Indian cricket board pressured Sri Lanka to join its oppostion to the nomination of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard as ICC vice-president.

The Special Action Committee (SAC) of Basil Rajapakse, the brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, the present Sri Lankan Economic Development Minister and the former senior advisor to the President during the war on Vanni, had ordered the records of all persons who fled Vanni at the end of the war to be destroyed so as [...]

The government is to hold elections to local authorities in the
Northern Province shortly, Sri Lankan Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is tasked to handle the elections on behalf of the ruling alliance, told media while addressing an inaugural event held in Ki’linochchi Friday.

A 22-year-old undergraduate student, Shanmuganathan Sujeevan, died in a road
accident Friday evening when he was on his way in a motor bicycle with
his brother to see his house located between Umaiyaa’lpuram and
Ki’linochchi.

Sri Lankan Police arrested a Tamil civilian from his house at
Kaddukku’lam in Pulmoaddai village in Trincomalee district Friday and
took him for interrogation.

Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, in a newly released book titled “Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew,’ says that Tamils have been in the island of Sri Lanka as long as the Sinhalese, and that Sri Lanka is not a happy “united” country. The present president of Sri Lanka believes he has settled the [...]

Pungkudutheevu police recovered Friday evening a male body with assault injuries near Thengka’n Thidal Pi’l’laiyaar Koayil in Pungkudutheevu in the islets of Jaffna and handed it over to Jaffna Teaching Hospital mortuary Saturday morning, sources in Jaffna said. The victim had gone from Vanni to visit his relatives in Pungkudutheevu and was last seen waiting [...]

Members of a family recently resettled in Ka’neasapuram in Ki’iinochchi after being displaced from their house, located Saturday dead bodies of massacred victims, buried inside their toilet pit, sources in Ki’linochchi said. The house was located 1 km west of A9.

VOLLEYBALL: Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation had made arrangements in collaboration with the International Volleyball Federation for Sri Lanka spikers to compete in several international volleyball tournaments for the year 2010.

The United States will be “watching closely” Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse’s newly established ‘reconciliation commission’ to see if it lives up to Colombo’s claims, the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert Blake, said Friday. Shortly after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as holding “promise” the body Sri [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backs a Sri Lankan panel on post-war reconciliation but says it must cover war crimes.

May 29, Colombo: Sri Lankan government is preparing to introduce a new national education policy to revamp the country’s education system before the end of the year, Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena said.

May 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today participated in religious functions at two major temples in the Eastern Province.

May 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Democratic National Alliance (DNA) parliamentarians will request a parliamentary debate on the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Sri Lanka and India.

May 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) will take disciplinary action against one of its provincial councilors who allegedly assaulted UNP Puttalam District parliamentarian Palitha Range Bandara.

May 29, Colombo: Several areas around Matara and Weligama in the Southern Province have been affected by giant poisonous ants.

May 29, Colombo: The Industrial Technology Institute of Sri Lanka has started production of BTI (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) bacteria to destroy mosquitoes that spread illnesses like dengue, which has claimed over 100 lives this year.

May 29, Colombo: The Sri Lankan Embassy in Kuwait will send home 107 Sri Lankan expatriate workers under a special programme.

May 29, Colombo: The love of 53 couples, all former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), will culminate in marriage under the auspices of the state they once fought to overthrow.

The Sri Lankan government has received an important boost, namely, United States backing for its own initiative recently set up to look at post-war reconciliation.

Representatives of the South Indian Film Industry (SIFI) unions called for a boycott of the International Indian Film Award (IIFA) ceremony to be held in Sri Lanka in June which they described as a country stained with the blood of innocent Tamils, in a meeting held Friday at the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce [...]

A sixteen year old Tamil student of Nilaave’li, a traditional Tamil
village in Trincomalee district, is reported to have disappeared after
he left home 10 May, according to a complaint lodged with
Kuchchave’li Police by his mother.

Vesak celebrations in Batticaloa held after 25 years, with around 40 lanterns & pandols, well received by public & draws crowds-reporter-JNW

(Lanka-e-News, May 29, 2010, 1.35PM) Near 300,000 eligible Tamil citizens are not registered as voters in the electoral registers held by Election Commissioner. Elections department should take additional efforts…

The Asian development Bank (ADB) has pledged its continued support for the development of basic infrastructure facilities and post war reconstruction in Sri Lanka.

The 24th Confederation of Asia Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry Conference and Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2010 are to be held from July 05-07 at the Cinnamon Grand in Colombo.

Sri Lanka should reduce its budget deficit to sustain growth in the islands economy, which may expand 6 percent this year, Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda said.

Further displaying the thirst for hotel shares by companies in the aftermath of the war, Lanka Orix Leasing Company PLC, through a 70% owned joint venture company with Browns Investments acquired the controlling stake of Confifi Hotels,…

External Affairs Minister Prof G.L. Peiris urged a “broader and deeper relationship between the United States of America and Sri Lanka” emphasizing the ‘sea change’ in Sri Lanka in his meetings with the top officials…

The Government yesterday denied reports that Cabinet approval has been granted for the provision of bank loans to Parliamentarians for the import of duty free vehicles.

Sri Lanka Navy is taking steps to extend the routes of the canal boat service which was recently started along the Wellawatta canal. This is in response to the increased demand received from the General Public who…

Education Minister Bandula Gunawardane yesterday said he would hold talks with university professors and educationists about the teachers’ lamentation that national examinations were too advanced for students.

“President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to equip all Sri Lankan students with the ability of communicating in English including those in remote areas.

Around 30 to 40 Indian actors will take part in the fund raising ‘Charity for Children’ cricket match that will be a part of the Videocon IIFA Weekend, 2011 Cricket World Cup Tournament Director and IIFA…

Prices of vegetables have sky-rocketed due to the recent inclement weather. Vegetable plots have been destroyed by floods, and transportation of vegetables to Colombo has been restricted or completely cut off.

May 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne has called on every one to give up party politics to join hands in building the country’s economy.

May 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is currently preparing a report on the government’s resettlement programme in the North, its progress and concerns.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda says that the rapid reconstruction that i..

When Stalin died, it is said, the ordinary people who had suffered silently under his jackboot refus..

With several more rounds of consultations between the UNP rank and file and Joseph Michael Perera Re..

Sinhalese Buddhists from South and the government armed forces in the North celebrated Thursday and Friday the annual Buddhist Vesak festival in Jaffna, Ki’linochchi and Vanni in a grand scale in comparison with last year, sources in Jaffna said. Sri Lanka government provided full support for the celebrations while security measures were strengthened in Jaffna [...]

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Intelligence Division men issued death threat in person to the owner of a leading printing press in Jaffna as he had printed copies of a Weekly newspaper which was claimed by them to contain articles criticizing the actions of President Mahinda Rajapakse and Deputy Minister Karuna, sources in Jaffna said. The [...]

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