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The International Crisis Group calls on the international community to place the LLRC report before the UN.

Thieves stole a collection box full of cash donated to help the family of a murdered Sri Lanka shop worker.

Dissident group of UNP accused the leadership of a witch-hunt with the aim of taking revenge from the individuals who did not support the current leadership.

Women in Sri Lanka’s north and east are facing a desperate lack of security since the end of civil war, says the International Crisis Group (ICG), in their latest report on Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan court allowed to call in Former Sri Lanka attorney general Mohan Pieris as a witness before court to inquire into the disappearance of Journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda.

Heavy rain and floods have made life miserable to thousands of resettled families in the Vanni. Over 6500 families in the Killinochchi and Mullativu districts have been badly affected, officials said.

Sri Lankan court allowed to call in Former Sri Lanka attorney general Mohan Pieris as a witness before court to inquire into the disappearance of Journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda.

The Sri Lankan government says it supports global moves to reduce carbon emissions by the Western powers.

The Sri Lankan government says it supports global moves to reduce carbon emissions by the Western powers.

The Sri Lankan government says it supports global moves to reduce carbon emissions by the Western powers.

Scuffles break out at UNP’s head office after the party voted to retain the leadership of Ranil Wickremasinghe.

The peak incidence of chickenpox in India and Sri Lanka is during the hottest, driest and sunniest season.

UNP says Buddhist leaders have expressed their desire for a change in the government.

missing policemen’s families welcome LLRC recommendation for an investigation into the alleged killing of 600 policemen.

Slamming the war panel report as a ‘whitewash’, rights watchdogs call for a international investigation.

Hundreds of people join a protest in Jaffna against the recent spate of abductions, organisers say.

Failed asylum seekers deported from UK were questioned at Colombo airport and released, police say.

Sarath Fonseka’s wife and opposition parties criticise the dismissal of his petition against a court martial verdict.

A commission set up by Sri Lanka’s president to investigate the conduct of the civil war says the government did its best to protect civilians.

The motor bicycle which both Lalith Kumar Weeraraj and Kugan Muruganathan travelled has been found in Jaffna.

The foremost buddhist leadership in Sri Lanka have called upon the leader of the main opposition, Ranil Wickremesinghe to step down from the party leadership.

A Sri Lankan court has released a senior nun from Mother Teresa’s charity who was on bail suspected of selling babies for adoption

Transportation of fruit and vegetables to economic centres has been disrupted on Wednesday due to protests by farmers and traders in the country.

R.Weeraraj, farther of Lalith Kumar Weeraraj who disappeared last week in Jaffna says that he received threatening telephone calls before his son’s disappearance.

The son of the President of Sri Lanka has pleaded with the state media not to give so much coverage to his family.

The Sri Lankan mission of the famous order of nuns founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta is in crisis.

Thousands of farmers around Sri Lanka joined for the second day of protests against the use of plastic crates for fruit and vegetable transportation

Tamil Tigers shot civilians who tried to escape and forcibly recruited children, during the last days of the war The Independent newspaper reports

Nearly two thousand fishermen protested against the use of illegal methods of fishing. They blamed the higher officials in the Nvy and politicians

A human rights group has called on Sri Lanka’s government to investigate the disappearance of two activists in the northern city of Jaffna

Jana Aragala Viyaparaya (People’s Struggle) of JVP says two of its activists are missing in Jaffna.

A Member of European Parliament (MEP) says he believes there are many bodies of dead civilians buried in exclusion zones where final fighting took place in 2009

A teenager has been charged with the murder of a Sri Lankan shop worker on Merseyside - England.

Sri Lankans are increasingly concern over the integrity of their favourite sport cricket since the country hosted the World Cup.

Sri Lanka Government says it apologises for the raid of Missionaries of Charity Convent in Moratuwa and the arrest of its superior nun.

Indian police have charged exiled Tibetan leader the Karmapa Lama after seizing about $1.4m (£900,000) in cash at his monastery in Dharamsala.

A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder over the death of a Sri Lankan shop assistant in England.

Sri Lanka has strongly denounced a report in a UK newspaper which said a leading lobbying company wrote a speech on behalf of the president.

Disgraced hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam has arrived at a federal prison to begin serving the longest-ever sentence for insider trading

The ferry boat between India and Sri Lanka has been impounded by the commercial high court in Colombo.

The ferry boat between India and Sri Lanka has been impounded by the commercial high court in Colombo until a dispute involving its Indian caterer is settled, officials say.

Ruwan’s wife says she heard one abductor in the vehicle saying that he needs to take a call to “Gotabhaya Sir”.

Sports minister pledges to resolve the issue over non-payment of player salaries by next week.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says he will boycott all government functions in protest against the arrest of Sister Mary Eliza.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says he will boycott all government functions in protest against the arrest of a Sister Mary Eliza.

ICC admits it is in discussion with FICA to find a solution to the non-payment of Sri Lanka player salaries.

Rights watchdogs raise concern over the safety of a Law College whistle-blower who was assaulted again.

A Colombo court orders the police to arrest police officers accused of killing a suspect in their custody.

Fishermen accuse the Govt of failing to save their lives when a tropical storm hit several districts, last week.

The owners of a Sri Lankan circus elephant allegedly be beaten by a keeper are charged with causing her unnecessary suffering.

There’s been a call in Sri Lanka for greater openness about sex education by former cricket captain Sangakkara, he was addressing a gathering on world Aids day.

A Sri Lankan shop worker dies after being stabbed in the neck while working in a Merseyside store.

Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a street protest by the youth front of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) on Wednesday.

A court in Sri Lanka has issued a ban on ‘Prem Nivasa’ Missionaries of Charity convent preventing it giving children to foreigners for adoption.

Sri Lanka’s first motorway, which runs from the capital Colombo to the southern town of Galle, has just been completed