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Feb 04, Colombo: The newly elected Mayor of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) A.J.M. Muzammil says that a new mechanism would be initiated to get the residents of the city to play an active role in the city’s administration.

Feb 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) says that support from other forces would also be gathered to form a broad front to agitate against the current states of lawlessness in the country.

Feb 04, Kandy: Sri Lanka Bribery or Corruption Investigation Commission officials arrested a head of a local government council Friday (03) on charges of soliciting bribes.

Feb 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka has made immense sacrifices to achieve peace and unity in the country and will not hesitate to take its own decisions in future to secure those objectives, island nation’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in a message to mark the country’s 64th Independence Day.

Feb 04, Colombo: The Queen Elizabeth II of England has sent a congratulatory message to Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the country’s 64th National Independence Day.

Feb 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka today celebrates the 64th anniversary of gaining independence from the British colonial rule in 1948 with pomp and pageantry in the sacred city of Anuradhapura in the North Central Province.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka University Grants Commission plans to establish the Agriculture Faculty of the University of Jaffna in Kilinochchi.

Feb 03, Colombo: The Chief Minister of India’s Tamil Nadu state, J. Jayalalithaa has once again vowed to take Sri Lanka’s Kachchativu islet back to stop alleged attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.

Feb 03, Colombo: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has commended the Sri Lanka Central Bank’s to raise the monetary and exchange policy rates and the government’s commitment to reduce the budget deficit.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says the ethnic issue could be resolved by building a Sri Lankan identity.

Feb 03, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court today granted approval to proceed with the habeas corpus case filed by relatives of two missing members of the Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) dissident group.

Feb 03, Colombo: Luke Bronin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury arrived in Sri Lanka Thursday with a four-member delegation.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka has decided to permit foreign owned companies registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka as “Margin Providers” to lend credit to investors of the Colombo Stock Exchange.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Central Bank today said it has decided to increase both the Repurchase rate and the Reverse Repurchase rate by 50 basis points each to 7.50 percent and 9.00 percent, respectively for the first time since 2007.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s state-owned Sinhala daily The Dinamina reported today that intelligence units have revealed information on a joint conspiracy by the country’s major Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) with the media right organization, Free Media Movement (FMM) to discredit Sri Lanka.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka Public Service Nurses’ Union (PSUNU) says the government has agreed to grant solutions to 12 demands put forward by the union.

Feb 03, Colombo: The cricket authority, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has decided to convert the present inter club cricket tournament to a four-day series of encounters from 2014.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Fisheries Rajitha Senaratne says his Ministry is working with an unnamed Somali person to save the six Sri Lankan fishermen who have been held for ransom by the Somali sea pirates.

Feb 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Sinhala daily The Divaina reported that the Easter Province Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan was engaged in a secret tour in Switzerland.

Feb 03, Colombo: The first fatal accident ton Sri Lanka’s first ever expressway claimed the life of a 26-year-old man in pre-dawn hours of Friday, the police said.

Feb 03, Colombo: Officials from Sri Lanka Customs at the Katunayake International Airport have nabbed an Indian who was trying to smuggle over 150 kilos of big onion seeds to the country.

Feb 03, Colombo: Leader of Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) Ranil Wickremasinghe says the UNP led Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) should not be accused of any corruption or irregularities.

Feb 03, Colombo: A Sri Lankan government minister called on all political parties to participate in the parliamentary select committee (PSC) proposed to find a political solution to the ethnic issue, if they wished to know the government’s stance on the matter.

Feb 02, Colombo: Less than three years after the war Sri Lanka has resettled 98 percent of the nearly 300,000 war-displaced people in the North, a government minister said.

Feb 02, Colombo: The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has given permission for the government to conduct negotiations with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRB) of the World Bank to obtain US $213 million loan for the implementation of the Metro Colombo Urban Development Project.

Feb 02, Colombo: The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has given permission for the government to conduct negotiations with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRB) of the World Bank to obtain US $213 million loan for the implementation of the Metro Colombo Urban Development Project.

Feb 02, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is to hold a competitive examination to recruit accountants proficient in Tamil language to serve in the country’s Tamil-dominated North and East.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka has begun preparations to host the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) that will bring the leaders of 54 member countries of the Commonwealth to the island.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has granted approval to impose spot fines on motorists who are not wearing seat belts.

Feb 01, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government today said that a final decision was yet to be taken with regard to whether or not to hand the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) later this month.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lankan health authorities have assured that the death of a large number of fowls earlier at a chicken farm in Bingiriya in the North Western Province is not due to bird flu and there is no cause for concern.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court today ordered the Court Registrar to issue notice on the Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena and four other respondents in a Fundamental Rights petition filed in courts seeking the withdrawal of the controversial 2011 GCE Advanced Level examination results and the release of fresh results.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s national career SriLankan Airlines says more pilots will be recruited with its plans to expand the services.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lankan government has decided to suspend import of five types of grains and pulses with immediate effect.

Feb 02, Colombo: Petroleum Minister of Sri Lanka Susil Premajayantha says that authorities have commenced discussions with several oil producing countries on the possibility of importing oil from those countries following the economic sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and European Union.

Feb 02, Colombo: The Eastern Provincial Council of Sri Lanka has unanimously passed a resolution in the Council that land powers should be allocated to the provinces according to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

Feb 02, Colombo: Secretary of Sri Lanka’s major Muslim party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Hassan Ali says his party will ask for a separate Muslim administrative unit in the Eastern Province.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka has recorded the highest number of child abuse and rape and cases last year, local media citing police records reported.

Feb 02, Colombo: Foreign Employment Promotion Minister of Sri Lanka Dilan Perera says that unlike the politicians in the North and South of the country, the general public in those areas do not care about a solution beyond the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the officials to amend laws to impose severe punishment to deal with the bogus doctors that are practicing island wide.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s overall environmental performance is improving and the country has been ranked as a modest performer according to a study on global environment released during this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s overall environmental performance is improving and the country has been ranked as a modest performer according to a study on global environment released during this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka is prepared to face any challenges successfully at the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva later this month, the country’s Foreign Secretary says.

Feb 01, Colombo: The island wide strike launched by the trade unions of Sri Lanka Railways was called off following discussions between the union leaders and the Transport Ministry officials.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) is to commence a series of agitation campaigns against lawlessness in the country.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Elections Secretariat says measures will be taken to cancel the registration of political parties that have not submitted annual reports on their activities.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) today escorted four Tamil Nadu fishermen, who were stranded in Sri Lankan territorial waters ,and handed them over to the Indian Coast Guard.

Feb 01, New Delhi: Strengthening bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries and Regional security situation including issues of maritime security in the Indian Ocean region dominated the inaugural Annual Defence Dialogue between India and Sri Lanka held Tuesday (January 31) in New Delhi.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health has issued a warning that there may be a threat of avian (bird) flu after a large number of fowl had died of an apparent infection at a farm in Bingiriya, Kurunegala in the North Western Province.

Feb 01, Colombo: The World Bank Tuesday approved a US$11 million concessional credit to Sri Lanka in the form of additional financing to assist the country to enhance its ICT services, a press release form the World Bank said.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of Cooperatives and Internal Trade says the use of plastic crates in transportation of vegetable and fruit is 75 percent successful.

Feb 01, Colombo: Head of the Patriotic National Movement (PNM), an ally of Sri Lanka’s governing United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera says the government should not hold discussions on finding a political solution with the major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) called on the government to implement the recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) to show its commitment to finding a political solution to the ethnic issue and address the needs of the Tamil people.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Public Utility Commission has recommended to the government not to increase the electricity tariffs this year.

Feb 01, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court has ordered the state and private electronics media to hand over unedited video footage of the riot in the Magazine Prison last week to the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD).

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Police said that the suicide jacket recovered from a rest point in Kataragama Monday was over five years old.

Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s National Dangerous Drugs Control Board says that the use of heroin in the country is over two kilos per day.

Jan 31, Colombo: The 2012 ‘Sancharaka Udawa’ (Dawn of tourism),a one-day forum showcasing Sri Lanka’s tourism products of small and medium enterprises and services opened Tuesday at the Ceylon Continental Hotel in capital Colombo.

Jan 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka today marked the 16th anniversary of the deadliest suicide bomb attack by the Tamil Tiger terrorists on the Central Bank, country’s top most financial institution in the heart of capital Colombo

Jan 31, Colombo: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized financial institution of the United Nations, will grant a US$ 22.2 million loan to Sri Lanka to improve irrigation infrastructure and crop diversification, and help create new market opportunities for smallholder farmers in Northern Province, a statement released by the Fund said.