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May 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka for the first time in history will export maize to a foreign country when it ships out a consignment of maize to Taiwan.

Tamil historian Professor AR Venkatachalapathy, delivering keynote address at Tamil Studies Conference in Toronto on Saturday, brought out hitherto untapped objective evidences of around two scores of letters written by CW Thamotharampillai (1832–1901) to UV Swaminathaiyar (1855–1942), for a better understanding of the relationship between the two pioneer editors coming from Jaffna and Tamil Nadu [...]

May 13, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has established a mechanism to provide details of the current and past detainees taken into custody by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of Sri Lanka police.

(Lanka-e-News -13.May.2012, 7.00PM) Minister Wimal weerawansa said certain external parties’ comments have divided the Sinhala and Tmail communities in Sri Lanka. He made this statement when he gave housing loans…

Sri Lankan authorities released information for the first time on Sunday about thousands of people held under draconian anti-terror laws despite it being three years since Tamil rebels were crushed.

Sri Lanka on Sunday said it will release information on those detained by the country's forces since the end of the war with the Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam, ahead of External Affairs Minister G L Peiris' visit to the US.

The statue of the chief deity of Pi’l'laiyaar temple in Punaanai, situated 52 km northwest of Batticaloa, has been reported missing after the occupation of a plot of land close to the temple by a Buddhist monk sent by Colombo-based Buddhist organizations, says C.Yogeswaran, the Batticaloa district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian. Punanai is a [...]

Security forces have made their biggest-ever arms haul recovering explosives yesterday.
The huge arms cache of 6,250 kgs of C-4 explosives was busted in a joint search operation of Army and police in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts yesterday.
The joint operation of the Army and police busted arms dump at Iranamadu and Nanthikadal in the Kilinochchi district.
Police [...]

May 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) says the party is willing to play the role of mediator to bring the major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to the proposed parliamentary select committee (PSC) to formulate a solution to the ethnic issue.

May 13, Colombo: A book on Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict is to be launched tomorrow under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

May 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) has commenced an emergency response programme with the Disaster Management Ministry in the event of a nuclear disaster.

May 13, Colombo: Acting External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka Neomal Perera says there is a shortage of qualified personnel in the country’s Foreign Service.

May 13, Colombo: The major constituent party of the Sri Lankan government, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is to submit the party’s stance on the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and its implementation this week.

There was intense speculation yesterday that General Sarath Fonseka, the former Army Commander now s..

There were strong indications yesterday that the controversial deal under which the National Savings..

Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Minister Maithripala Sirisena says the disciplinary inq..

We do not apologize for returning once more to the problems unleashed by the National Savings Bank s..

An inmate of the Welikada prison has committed suicide by hanging himself yesterday inside the priso..

KARACHI: Sri Lanka dropped plans to host a limited–overs cricket series between Pakistan and Australia in August as it clashes with the island’s Premier League, Pakistani cricket officials said yesterday.

A Montrealer of Tamil origin was reportedly murdered in northern Sri Lanka in early May after attempting to recover property lost during the war, QMI Agency has learned.

KARACHI: Sri Lanka has dropped plans to host a limited overs series between Pakistan and Australia in August as it clashes with the island's Premier League, Pakistani cricket officials said Saturday.

The occupying Sri Lankan military in Ki’linochchi is making every effort to cover up the culprits of the brutal killing of Canadian Tamil citizen who was struggling to get his business properties back from the SL military in Ki’linochhci, informed civil sources in the town told TamilNet Saturday. The intelligence officers of the occupying SL [...]

A hand grenade had been recovered from a hotel in Batticaloa yesterday, before UNP leader Ranil Wick..

Sri Lanka registered a superb 35 (five goals) points to 10 (one goal and one penalty) victory over Singapore in their Asian Five Nations Rugby Division 1 tournament match played at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines today.

Students from a popular private high school in Los Angeles California, motivated by lessons on genocide learnt from their history class, have organized fund-raisers and social awareness campaign to help victims of the alleged genocide in Sri Lanka, said a communique from the students. “We searched videos and read articles of the Sri Lankan people [...]

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed authorities to take measures to improve the country’s civilian naval operations to meet international standards as the sector is a substantial source of foreign exchange.

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Disaster Management Mahinda Amaraweera says the Meteorological Department will be modernized at a cost of Rs. 5 billion.

May 12, Anuradhapura: Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the main coalition party of Sri Lanka’s ruling alliance Saturday launched a massive six-month long island wide programme to reorganize the party.

May 12, Kuwait: Sri Lanka and Kuwait have agreed to strengthen bilateral relations between the two states and exchange experiences in various fields.

May 12, Colombo: Hambantota district parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa says the government will launch a programme to provide a computer for each school student in the country.

(Lnka-e-News -12.May.2012, 8.00pm) A hand grenade bomb had been discovered at the venue where the Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was scheduled to visit, according…

(Lanka-e-News -12.May.2012, 8.00pm)On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared…

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lanka major opposition United National Party (UNP) sources say that the party leader Ranil Wickremasinghe has informed former Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya in writing to show cause for not attending the party May Day rally.

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lanka Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) sources say the party will launch a 45-day public awareness programme on the new strategy of the party.

May 12, Colombo: Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Minister Maithripala Sirisena says the disciplinary inquiry against SLFP Kelaniya organizer and Public Affairs Minister Mervyn Silva is still ongoing.

May 12, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has commenced a special study on all legal actions against the convicted former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, a local news report said.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan are looking for alternative venues for their one-day series against Australia after Sri Lanka withdrew an offer to host the matches.

Pakistan are looking for alternative venues for their one-day series against Australia after Sri Lanka withdrew an offer to host the matches.

Pakistan are looking for alternative venues for their one-day series against Australia after Sri Lanka withdrew an offer to host the games.

Sri Lanka has dropped plans to host a limited overs series between Pakistan and Australia in August as it clashes with the island's Premier League, Pakistani cricket officials said Saturday.

KARACHI, May 12, 2012 (AFP) - Sri Lanka has dropped plans to host a limited overs series between Pakistan and Australia in August as it clashes with the island's Premier League, Pakistani cricket officials said Saturday.

Islamabad, May 12 (ANI): Pakistan are in a desperate search for a neutral venue to host its ODI series against Australia after Sri Lanka backed out of hosting it citing scheduling issues.

Colombo, May 12 (ANI): Canada has said that it expected Sri Lanka to carry out investigations into the murder of a Canadian citizen in the country.

Delivering the keynote address at the Tamil studies Conference in Toronto on Friday, Veteran Tamil Studies Professor, Noburu Karashima, who has been working on Tamil inscriptions for many decades, emphasized the importance of statistical analysis of data to come out with valuable revelations of Tamil History. Presenting a statistical analysis of Chola inscriptions, he demonstrated [...]

May 12, Colombo: Parliamentarian of Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) Anoma Gamage has raised a privileges issue against the head of the state owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC).

May 12, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government today rejected a private members’ motion moved by an opposition parliamentarian to disclose the names of the bad debtors.

May 12, Colombo: Two state-run banks of Sri Lanka had written off a massive Rs. 125 billion as bad debt during the past 10 years, the parliament was told Friday.

May 12, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is to propose that vans transporting school children be painted in one color.

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) called on the government to reveal details about the Action Plan that is being prepared on the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).

The District Court of Eastern District Court of New York Friday freed Kandasamy Karunakaran who was arrested five years ago and charged with providing material support to Liberation Tigers designated as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)" in the U.S. Judge Raymond Dearie noting that "this is not a garden variety terrorism case," and adding that [...]

Former LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) female cadres share a moment with an army officer dur..

The Child Development and Women Affairs Ministry of Sri Lanka says that the cases of child abuse and..

A massive Rs.125 billion has been written off as bad debts by the two state banks during the past te..

The government has decided to allow the people to see the development work of Sri Lanka`s main port,..

A Sri Lankan government minister says that elections for the provincial councils in the country are ..

.Minister Mervyn Silva s son Malaka Silva says that he has not decided to enter active politics at t..

NEW DELHI, May 11: Leader of Opposition in Indian Parliament s lower house the Lok Sabha Sushma Swar..