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(Lanka-e-News 31.July.2010 10.13PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse is preparing to hold a three day workshop to please and motivate the Govt. Ministers and MPs. This is a sequel…

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) closed its district office in Trincomalee town with effect from July 31. IOM sources said it has been closed its office in Trincomalee due to lack of funds and that IOM has laid off ten of its employees. However five employees have been transferred to Vavuniyaa (01) and Jaffna [...]

Sri Lanka’s war has caused extensive damage to mangrove cultivations in the Batticaloa lagoon and a massive restoration effort is underway

July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo will soon have a separate night-life spot on the weekends to entertain fun-seeking tourists to the city as well as residents.

July 31, Colombo: The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has decided to add a mountain range in Sri Lanka’s hill country to the World Heritage List.

Sri Lanka police have received 101 complaints of abductions since January to the end of July in various parts of Sri Lanka and 93 of them are related to ransom demands, SL police spokesman Preshantha Jayakody told media in Colombo.

July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka police Saturday denied local media reports that the driver of the LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran has surrendered to the Trincomalee police.

July 31, Puttalam: A forest fire has broken out today (31) in Puttalam in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province where the feast of the well known St. Anne’s Church is to take place tomorrow (August 01).

July 31, Colombo: The United States today condemned the attack on the studios of Siyatha Television and its affiliated radio stations by an unknown armed group.

LTTE driver of V Prabakaran, a resident of Kuchchaweli, has surrendered to Trincomalee police; investigation on going-Mil Official-JNW

July 31, Colombo: A clerical service official covers duties of the Sri Lanka High Commissioner of Canada, a Sinhala daily The Divaina reported.

July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to meet Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe for extensive talks. The discussion will be held in the President’s official residence Temple Trees on Tuesday, August 03.

July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) has planned to purchase 100 buses for the SLTB depots under a leasing scheme.

July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of Education says that a new programme costing Rs. 60 billion will be launched from next year to develop 1,000 secondary schools.

At least a thousand of the persons disappeared during Sri Lanka government’s war on Vanni are students below the age of eighteen and their families, mostly mothers, have begun a desperate search for their children gone missing after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) at the end of the war, Education Department sources in Ki’linochchi [...]

Occupying Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Vanni has declared the villages of Mayilvaakanapuram and Kumarasaamipuram in Ki’linochchi district not allowed for resettlement as they had been reserved for SLA use, sources in Ki’linochchi said. 140 uprooted families of the two villages brought to be resettled two months back after detention in Vavuniyaa SLA camp by [...]

BRASILIA – A region of mountainous forests in Sri Lanka and an isolated archipelago off Hawaii have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, officials of the UN cultural and scientific body said Saturday.

SriLankan – Sri Lanka’s national carrier has won the award for ‘Top Airline by Growth in Passenger Carriage (South Asia)’ from Singapore’s Changi Airport for the highest growth in traffic to Singapore from the region last…

MP Mangala Samaraweera will receive membership of the UNP on August 6. Samaraweera, who contested the last parliamentary elections from Matara on the UNP ticket is the leader of the SLFP (M).

The Power and Energy Ministry has organized a national energy exhibition, an energy week and the National Energy Efficiency Award ceremony from August 3-8 at the BMICH in Colombo.

A special motorcycle squad has been deployed by the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) to nab errant and reckless bus drivers who flout road rules.

The Colombo Municipality is planning to enforce a ban on pasting posters within the Colombo City limits in a bid to give it a cleaner appearance.

The re-commencement of registration of Tamils with the police and targetted search operations have created a renewed sense of insecurity and injustice amongst the larger Tamil population that is detrimental to national reconciliation, said Democratic People’s Front Leader Mano Ganesan, according to Colombo media. Ganesan has requested Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa to intervene to [...]

(Lanka-e-News, July 31, 2010, 2.00 PM) A post-LTTE look at the fallout of the 1987 agreement that led to India’s direct involvement in the counter-insurgency operation in Sri Lanka.
It is 23 years since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement was signed on July 29, 1987…

Leader of Democratic Peoples Front (DPF) and Convener of Civil Monitoring Commission, Mano Ganesan, has unequivocally condemned the arson attack on the Siyatha Media Network studio in Colombo on Friday morning. In a statement released Friday, Ganesan, while condemning the attack in the strongest of terms, noted that the incident had taken place in the [...]

July 31, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court has ordered a probe into the report from the Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) that internal organs of a midwife who died under mysterious circumstances in North have gone missing.

July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy Ministry has organized a national energy exhibition, an energy week and the National Energy Efficiency Award ceremony from August 3-8 at the BMICH in Colombo. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to inaugurate the event on August 3.

Court orders Rs5 million be paid to a 33-year old doctor exposed to radiation due to a machine defect at a Colombo hospital-lawyer-JNW

Occupying Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Vanni has declared the villages of Mayilvaakanapuram and Kumarasaamipuram in Kilinochchi district not allowed for resettlement as they had been reserved for SLA use, sources in Kilinochchi said. 140 uprooted families of the two villages brought to be resettled two months back after detention in Vavuniyaa SLA camp by [...]

It is with shock and dismay that we note the dastardly attack on the Siyatha TV and Radio stations i..

John Keells Holdings PLC recorded a profit before tax (PBT) of Rs 1.53 billion for the first quarter..

The UNP yesterday, informed Kandy District MP Abdul Cader that he has been suspended from the Workin..

`We`ve been tracking this vessel for some time,` Defence Minister Peter MacKay said. `We`ll have shi..

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka preserved their 1-0 lead in the three-match series when the second Test ended in a high-scoring draw yesterday.

The intestines of the family consultant nurse Saravanai Tharsika alleged killed by Sinhala doctor Priyantha Senivaratne in Veala’nai hospital, removed after post mortem examination in Jaffna Teaching Hospital and buried in Koddadi cemetery before her body was handed over to her family, were exhumed Friday in the presence of Oorkaavattu’rai magistrate and Jaffna Judicial Medical [...]

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Cabinet of Ministers has granted permission to the Central Bank to provide a guarantee of Rs. one billion to People’s Bank to open letters of credit worth for importing coal to Sri Lanka.

July 30, Colombo: The Japanese government is prepared to consider the idea of a Free Trade Agreement between Sri Lanka and Japan, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Masayuki Naoshima has told the visiting Sri Lankan ministers in Tokyo.

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Petroleum Ministry today said that an Indian company would commence drilling for oil in the sea off the northwestern coast early next year.

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) has condemned the attack on the private TV station Siyatha in Colombo today.

July 30, Colombo: A work stoppage by prime mover drivers of the South Asia Gateway Terminals (Pvt) Ltd., (SAGT) in Sri Lanka’s Colombo Port has crippled the container traffic in the port.

July 30, Colombo: The British government has removed the travel restriction that had been imposed on its citizens against traveling to the Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.

Sri Lanka establishes an elephant habitat and a walkway - first of its kind in the Europe and Americas - in UK.

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) has decided to suspend its Kandy District parliamentarian Abdul Cader from the party’s working committee for supporting the government in parliament.

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lankan government today ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to initiate special investigation on the reported fire attack on a private radio and TV station in capital Colombo.

UNP Kandy District MP A. R. M. Abdul Cader has been suspended from the UNP working committee, UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake says in a letter. The suspension is due to him voting with the government in parliament.(AD)

The Government of Japan in keeping with the policy of Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s administration is prepared to engage in consultations with regard to a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and Japan, Japanese Economy, Trade and industry Minister…

The Sri Lankan government intends to reduce taxes further and put pressure on commercial banks to lend more to the private sector, Sarath Amunugama, Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning, said.

The Standard Chartered Bank has initiated litigation in the Commercial Court in the UK against the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on the hedging deal, and the trial has now been fixed for March 28, next year, authoritative sources said yesterday….

The United Kingdom has updated its travel advisory on Sri Lanka by removing the advise against travel to the four northern provinces of Mullaitivu, Killinochchi, Mannar and Vavuniya.

Anil Kumble and Muttiah Muralitharan could be soon working together in training young spinners. There are plans in place to set up a spin-bowling academy, possibly in Bangalore, and the two bowlers, who share 1419 Test wickets between them, have…

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Cabinet of Ministers has granted permission to the Central Bank to provide a guarantee of Rs. one billion to People’s Bank to open letters of credit worth for importing coal to Sri Lanka.

Twelve armed men clad in black uniforms forcefully entered the private
TV channel Siyatha TV office and assaulted the security guard and set
fire to the station and caused severe damage to the equipment on
Friday at 1.30 am. The station belongs to former Chairman of the Sri Lanka
Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Mr. Priyantha Kariyapperuma. Mr. Kariyapermuma was [...]

Sri Lanka establishes an elephant habitat and a walkway - first of its kind in the Europe and Americas - in UK.

July 30, Colombo: A recent survey has found that the loss to Sri Lanka economy due to traffic congestions in Colombo city is Rs. 32 billion per year.

Sri Lanka preserved their 1-0 lead in the three-match series against India when the second test ended in a high-scoring draw Friday.

July 30, Kandy: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today presided over the progress review meeting on development in Central Province, the first such meeting at provincial level, held at the President’s House in Kandy.

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Rehabilitation Commissioner Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe says that 3,000 surrendered cadres of the defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been released so far.

Editor of the Sunday Leader, Frederica Janz, is one of the twenty
witnesses summoned to give evidence before the Sri Lankan High Court Trial-At-Bar
which is to begin on September 27 into the ‘white flag’ case against
former commander of the Sri Lanka Army Sarath Fonseka. Major General Shavendra Silva and Sri
Lanka’s Representative to the UN in Geneva [...]

July 30, Colombo: Colombo Municipal Council has found out that 380 of the inspected places where cooked food is sold in the city are below standard.

(Lanka-e-News, July 30, 2010, 5.45PM) According to the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index for 2009 almost half of the people in the world…