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July 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) affiliated Inter University Student Federation (IUSF) today (29) filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) on the death of a third year student of the Ruhuna University and the arrest of eight other students this week.

(RTTNews) - The opening hearing of a new trial against Sri Lanka’s former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka began at the High Court in capital Colombo on Thursday, with the former army chief standing accused of bringing disrepute the government.

At stumps on Day 4, India 669/9 in reply to Sri Lanka’s 642/4d in 1st innings of 2nd Test at SSC. Tendulkar 203 & Raina 120-JNW

A Tamil refugee hunger striker has accepted undisclosed damages over newspaper reports he secretly ate burgers during his protest.

(Lanka-e-News, July 29, 2010, 3.30PM) Both Mahinda Rajapaksa and Asif Ali Zardari have reason to sport a smile over the brickbats that have come Ban Ki-moon’s way from one of his deputies. Inga-Britt Ahlenius,…

Sri Lanka’s former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka was brought before the Colombo High Court on Thursday to answer charges of provoking violence.

Norochcholai coal power plant will commence in November; cabinet approval given for importing $7 mil worth of coal-Min Rambukwella-JNW

The Chennai-based, state-run Indian Bank is planning to open a branch in Jaffna, and to facilitate an Indian government loan to Sri Lanka of US$ 200 million for the rehabilitation of internally displaced Tamils, media reports said. “Talks [with Sri Lanka] are in an advanced stage at the moment,” chairman and managing director Mr. TM [...]

July 29, Tuticorin: Indian Coast Guard has arrested 15 Sri Lankan fishermen in three boats for fishing illegally in Indian waters, the Indian daily The Hindu reported.

July 29, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court issued notices to 20 witnesses to provide evidence to the “white flag” case involving the former Army Commander and current Democratic National Alliance (DNA) parliamentarian retired General Sarath Fonseka.

July 29, Jaffna: The body of a midwife who died under mysterious circumstances in the North earlier this month was exhumed yesterday for a fresh forensic examination.

July 29, Fort Wayne, IN: This year Annual Vas Pinkama organized by the Indiana Buddhist Temple will begin on 31 July 2010 with the observance of Rainy Season by the resident monks of the temple.

Sri Lanka government gives preference mostly to Southern contractors and workers allowing them to benefit from international assistance provided to develop the infrastructure of Jaffna district and to take South the profits made while denying opportunities to local people, C. V. K. Sivagnanam, former president of Jaffna district NGOs Federation and Joint Secretary of Ilangkai [...]

Hemas Holdings Plc consolidated revenues have increased by 14 percent to Rs 4.3bn and net earnings h..

Petroleum resources Minister Susil Premajayantha said the government will pursue attempts to sell ga..

Sri Lanka s Minister of External Affairs and Minister of Economic Development who are currently on a..

Sri Lanka`s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) affiliated National Trade Union Center (NT..

he Colombo High Court judge Sunil Rajapakse today (28) sentenced the two accused who confessed to co..

Rienzie Algama`s tragic death opposite the UNP Headquarters, Sirikotha, on Monday is a riddle wrapp..

Three of twenty-nine dengue patients admitted in Mannaar general
hospital have died in July. Meanwhile, the Department of Health in Mannaar has launched a campaign
against the spread of dengue.

The body of the family consultant nurse Saravanai Tharsika allegedly killed by Sinhala doctor Priyantha Seniviratne in Veala’nai government hospital in the islets of Jaffna 10 July and buried in Kaithadi Hindu crematorium grounds was exhumed Wednesday in the presence of Oorkaavattu’rai magistrate under the direction of Judicial Medical Officer, sources in Jaffna said.

The Chennai-based, state-run Indian Bank is planning to open a branch in Jaffna, and to facilitate an Indian government loan to Sri Lanka of US$ 200 million for the rehabilitation of internally displaced Tamils, media reports said. “Talks [with Sri Lanka] are in an advanced stage at the moment,” chairman and managing director Mr. TM [...]

The world salutes Sri Lanka for doing so much with so little and pushing the country from low income level to low middle income level status. Sri Lanka’s maternal and infant mortality rates have significantly gone down.

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers interrogated the residents of Kavuthaarimunai in Poonakari in Ki’linochchi Friday immediately after a delegation of Sinhala Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) had visited them, Socialist Youth Association (SYA), a front organization of the JVP, claimed in a media statement. The delegation met the resettled people to learn first hand about [...]

Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) is engaged in constructing many new bases along the coast in the districts of Ampaa’rai and Batticaloa in Eastern Province disregarding strong protests of local Tamil and Muslim people, sources in Batticaloa. Oluvil Mosque president Abubucker Lebbai Ismail expressed concern that new SLN bases in heavily populated places where there were [...]

(Lanka-e-News, July 28, 2010, 10.25PM) Addressing a media briefing at the UNP media unit today (28), UNP Gen. Secretary Tissa Attanayake said, the Rajapakse Govt.’s favorite preoccupation is…

(Lanka-e-News, July 28, 2010, 10.25PM) The Colombo High Court judge Sunil Rajapakse today (28) sentenced the two accused who confessed to conspiring and providing information to the LTTE regarding the place of residence of former Minister…

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today visited Prime Minister D.M Jayaratne, who has been warded at the Nawaloka Hospital for a brief illness.

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today honored late Sirimavo Bandaranaike at ‘Swarnabhimana Awarjana’, a function held at the Temple Tress to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her inception as world’s first woman Prime Minister.

July 28, Colombo: Five senior Brigadiers in the Army including the military spokesman have been promoted to the rank of Major General, the Military Secretariat announced Tuesday.

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today at the Temple Trees presented air tickets to 19 students to participate in the 2010 International Youth Friendship Camp in Shanghai in China.

July 28, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court today sentenced two people to ii years of rigorous imprisonment for supplying information to the Liberations Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to assassinate the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Mahajana Wing) leader Mangala Samaraweera.

Mothers complained that living with out knowing what happened to their children is something difficult to bare up.

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid his last respects to Erin Senanayake, the wife of former Minister late R.G Senanayake at her Colombo residence on Tuesday.

The Police was slammed by courts for not been able to identify those who attacked the residents in Mattakkuliya, Colombo.

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers interrogated the residents of Kavuthaarimunai in Poonakari in Kilinochchi Friday immediately after a delegation of Sinhala Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) had visited them, Socialist Youth Association (SYA), a front organization of the JVP, claimed in a media statement. The delegation met the resettled people to learn first hand about [...]

July 28, Colombo: Colombo Additional Magistrate Lal Bandara Ranasinghe criticized Sri Lanka police today for failing to conduct investigations regarding alleged police attacks on 13 houses in Mattakkuliya area in Colombo city.

July 28, Colombo: The Secretary of the Ministry of Ports and Aviation Ranjith Silva says that the construction work of the first phase of the Hambanthota harbor project is almost complete.

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) has commenced discussions on several proposed constitutional amendments with the government.

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) affiliated National Trade Union Center (NTUC) today, calling them intimidating, condemned the government’s actions against the university lecturers, who launched a token strike yesterday (27) demanding a revision in their salaries.

July 28, Colombo: A protest march and a sathyagraha organized by today (28) Sri Lanka’s Marxist party affiliated Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) against what they called police brutality against university students resulted in the temporary closure of Olcott Mawatha in the Fort area of capital Colombo.

For the first time in history the All Share Price Index of the Colombo Stock Exchange closed above the 5,000 mark today. The ASPI closed at 5,138 points. The CSE is currently ranked the 2nd best performing stock market in…

The Welikada Prison complex covers some very valuable prime land, 40 acres in extent, within the City of Colombo. It is assessed at a minimum value of Rs. 15 billion.

Five senior Brigadiers in the Sri Lanka Army have been promoted to the rank of Major General, the Military Secretariat announced. Military spokesman, Brigadier U.A.B. Medawela was also promoted.

Source: Reuters * Rights groups warn of growing authoritarianism

* Many donors, investors focus on short-term stability

* Any erosion of rule of law brings longer term dangers

By Peter Apps, Political Risk …

Mass Media and Communication Minister and Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukkwella yesterday stated that any public representative and Non Government Organization can visit the North and East and contribute to its ongoing resettlement drive and the development process.

UNP Hambantota Parliamentarian Sajith Premadasa yesterday requested the police to hold an investigation in to the death of Rienzie Algama, who set himself ablaze opposite the UNP headquarters Sirikotha on Monday afternoon.

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s state owned power monopoly Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) says that Rs. 11.9 million fines were levied from the unscrupulous electricity users within the month of July so far.

The government’s failure to appoint boards to manage some State institutions and therefore the parliamentary watchdog committee on public enterprises is finding it difficult to initiate investigations.

A high-tech electricity producing system driven by solar power has been introduced by the Power and Energy Ministry. The new method called ‘Net Metering System’ was officially introduced by Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday.

Post Master General M.K.B. Dissanayake said the work-to-rule campaign staged its employees yesterday was resolved with the mediation of the Minister and the distribution of mails has returned to normalcy.

Scoreboard at the close on the third day of the second test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka’s spinners grabbed four wickets to stifle India’s chances of rescuing the second test on Wednesday.

A potsherd inscription in Tamil Brahmi found some times back in an archaeological excavation by a German team at Tissamaharama in the Hambantota district of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka can be interpreted as meaning an equipment to measure, and thus evidences the presence of ordinary Tamil speaking people in the population of that [...]

A plane with more than 150 people on board has crashed in hills north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Road near Fort Railway Station blocked by around 2,000 students protesting against death of Ruhunu campus student-reporter-JNW

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Scoreboard at lunch Wednesday on the third day of the second test between Sri Lanka and India at Sinhalese Sports Club:

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lankan bowlers have slowed India’s strong start today on Day 3 of the second Test at the SSC grounds in Colombo.

Welikada, Bogambara & Jaffna Prisons will be relocated; land also identified for open prison in Monaragala-Ministry official-JNW

July 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) affiliated Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) is to hold a protest march to the Police Headquarters today.