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A woman who worked in a factory in Kuwait since the age of 22 was suddenly found dead. Her body was ..

The government has arrived at the decision to take the necessary measures to encourage more secondar..

Tamil Nadu State Assembly should press New Delhi to make arrangements for its participation in the UN Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva in March to present the case of war crimes against Eezham Tamils, said, Communist Party of India’s MLA for Sivagangai, Mr. S. Gunasekaran, during debate on Governor’s Address in the Tamil Nadu [...]

"They desperately need to do something. They desperately need to find funding so they can pay outstanding debts, not only to cricketers but also hotel chains, air carriers etc and other creditors such that they can get their act together and operate properly as a governing body for cricket in that country," he added.

Calcutta: The Sri Lankan players have played without being paid by their board in the last few months and little has changed now as they will feature in the upcoming tri-series in Australia.

After promising to go beyond the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution to find a solution to..

(Lanka-e-News-01.Jan.2012, 11.45PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse who promised to the Indian foreign Minister Krishnan on the 17th January that he would provide a 13 plus solution to the Sri Lanka East –North issue had announced the very following day that he took India for a ride….

(Lanka-e-News-01.Jan.2012, 11.45PM) Vaas Gunawardena , the SSP Kurunegala , had consumed the powerful insecticide ‘mortein’ used to destroy cockroaches and mosquitoes…

(Lanka-e-News-01.Jan.2012, 11.45PM) Railway station masters, controllers and signal supervisors staged a lightning strike today at 4.00 p.m. Island wide. Consequently , the entire railway services…

(Lanka-e-News-01.Jan.2012, 11.45PM) M A J Mendis , the Commissioner of Sri Lanka human rights Commission had decided to resign his post. He said that he had arrived at this decision not based…

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.

Railway professionals call off the industrial action that halted all train services after talks with the minister.

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.

This summer's tri-series will be played against the backdrop of a worrying pay dispute.

THIS summer's tri-series will be played amid a backdrop of a pay dispute which sees Sri Lanka's players owed as much as $US 5million ($4.71 million) due to a cash crisis within the country's governing body.

Train services are halted throughout the country as a result of a strike action by railway professionals.

Sri Lanka's players are owed as much as $US 5million ($4.71 million) due to a cash crisis within the country's governing body.

Sri Wikrama Rajasinghe alias Ka’n’nuch-chaami, the last king of Kandy, from whom the British captured the sovereignty of the last remaining kingdom in the island then called Ceylon, was remembered by his heirs and relatives in Tamil Nadu at his memorial in Vealoor (Vellore) in Tamil Nadu on his 181st death anniversary on Monday. Those [...]

Archaeological traces of heritage, preserved in 25 acres of land in Chuvaami-malai and Kevu’liya-madu villages in Paddippazhai DS division of Batticaloa district, are being destroyed by Sinhala encroachers, who are attempting to construct a Buddhist vihara at the occupied lands, civil sources Paddippazhai said. Condemning the move, Eastern Provincial Council (EPC) member R. Thurairatnam, said [...]

A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission

On January 28 alone there were 17 deat..

The CID yesterday filed a fresh criminal case at the Colombo Fort Magistrate s Court against another..

Reuters: President Mahinda Rajapaksa was emphatic: China s presence in Sri Lanka is strictly busines..

Jan 31, Colombo: India`s High Commission in Colombo has announced 135 undergraduate and post- gradua..

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Explosives experts confirmed that the suicide vest that was found ..

Sri Lanka is not going to make decisions to make NGOs and other countries happy what is best for o..

Any perceptive reader of President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s observations on current issues which we front..

Fixtures, reports and scorecards for India's four-Test tour of Australia, and the tri-series also involving Sri Lanka.

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.

Reports and scorecards from Sri Lanka's tour to South Africa.

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.

Depriving the livelihood of resettled Tamils at 35th Colony, the Sri Lankan government authorities in Colombo have taken charge of the Tamil area, which comes under the Batticaloa district and the Eastern Provincial Council, aiming Sinhalicisation of the border village between the Batticaloa and Ampaa’rai district. The Tamil fishermen, who have been fishing in Navakkiri [...]

Sixteen suspects out of twenty who are alleged to have been involved in the shooting incident relati..

(Lanka-e-News -31.Jan.2012,11.30PM) The actual driver of the vehicle in the accident at Paiyagala who killed two and critically injured another owing to reckless driving…

(Lanka-e-News -31.Jan.2012,11.30PM) On the 4th of February 2012 , 1600 prisoners are to be released . But the political prisoner General Fonseka’s name is not in that list , based on

(Lanka-e-News -31.Jan.2012,11.30PM) The police officers of the Paiyagala police station themselves have charged that the OIC of the station IP Chaminda Kulasinghe , instead of enforcing the law on the accused , a nephew of Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardena…

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.

Stranded refugees from Sri Lanka, in the tiny West African state of Togo have told the BBC that they fear for their life if they are deported .

US-led sanctions aimed at spurring Iran to abandon its nuclear programme also hurt Sri Lanka, which imports all its oil, the island's president said on Tuesday.

Cases have been filed against 6182 owners of properties with high density of dengue mosquito larvae identified during the first National Dengue Prevention week of this year, Ministry of Health said. It was declared by the Ministry from 16 to the 22 of January this year.
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President Rajapaksa, said that US sanctions against Iran will hurt small countries like his own more than they hurt Iran.

Jan 31, Colombo: India’s High Commission in Colombo has announced 135 undergraduate and post- graduate scholarships for meritorious Sri Lankan nationals to study in India under the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) scholarship scheme.

Jan 31, Colombo: Nurses of Sri Lanka Government Nursing Officers’ Union held a protest today demanding the government to reform the nursing profession, grant promotions and prevent political interferences.

Sri Lanka A battled their way back into the five-match series against England Lions with a six-wicket win in Kurunegala. Despite Jos Buttler’s second century in three matches for the Lions, Sri Lanka completed their run chase with 15 balls to spare thanks in large part to a composed innings of 94 from No. 3 [...]

Sri Lanka said Tuesday it did not need the final tranche of a $2.6-billion IMF bailout thanks to the country's healthy foreign exchange reserves.

Jan 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka, which depends on the Iranian crude for almost all its oil requirement, is considering the country’s options as Iran’s economy has started to suffer by the combined United States and European Union sanctions on that country’s oil exports and banking.