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The price of petrol was increased by Rs. 5, diesel by Rs. 4 and kerosene by Rs. 16 a litre from midn..

PERSONALITIES: Peter Ranasinghe who was no doubt the pride of Sri Lanka’s football during the post war period is a product of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo.

Sri Lanka’s navy said it found about 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of explosives in a truck Friday and arrested a person nearby, in what may have been a planned attack by Tamil Tiger rebels.

COLOMBO, June 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s government on Friday raised retail fuel prices for the third time in three months, wiping out the last of a long-standing fuel subsidy aimed at keeping down the cost of living, fuel retailer Lanka IOC said.

Thillainathan Uthayakumar (35 yrs), Chairman of Thirukkoavil Pradeshya Sabah in the Ampaa`rai distri..

Muttiah Muralitharan and Lasith Malinga picked off the last five Bangladesh wickets for just 21 runs Thursday as Sri Lanka coasted to an innings and 234-run victory in the series-opening cricket test.

Unidentified men triggered a Claymore device Friday morning targeting a Sri Lanka Transport Board bus in Cheddikku’lam area, injuring a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) trooper and four civilians, according to Cheddiku’lam police. The Police claimed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members were responsible for the attack.

June 29, Colombo: President Mahinda Rajapaksa has presented awards and promoted the police officers of the Kotagala Police Station who nabbed the lorry load of explosives at the Palugashandiya checkpoint on June 1.

Mr.N.Jeganathan, President of Vee’lana’i Sri Muthumaariamman Koayil committee and Mr S.Manoharajan Iyer, priest of the Koayil Thursday filed a fundamental right violation petition in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, seeking the court to declare that their arrest and detention were illegal and to order their release with appropriate compensation, legal sources said.

June 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka Department of Registration of Persons is to call for tenders to produce a new digital identity card which is to be introduced to Sri Lanka public from September next year.

June 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Sinhala Buddhist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) says that it will hold 1,000 awareness meetings countrywide.

June 29, Colombo: The internally displaced Sinhalese people from Welioya who were residing in the Alikimbulagala school premises in Padavi-Parakramapura have decided reluctantly to return to the Athawetunaweva village.

June 29, Colombo: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says that the re-introduction of criminal defamation laws will be another terrible setback for the press freedom situation in Sri Lanka which is already suffering from human rights abuses against journalists and unfair censorship.

June 29, Colombo: Unidentified men lobbed a hand grenade at the elected Chairman of the Akkaraipaththu Pradeshiya Sabha local government body, Thillainathan Uthayakumar, a 34 year old father of two in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka yesterday night around 8.30 PM.

At least seven people, including three soldiers, were wounded in two roadside bomb attacks in Sri Lanka’s north on Friday, officials said.

Source: Reuters COLOMBO, June 29 (Reuters) - Roadside bombs wounded eight people including two school children in Sri Lanka’s far north on Friday, the military said, a day after a pro-rebel politician was killed in …

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Roadside bombs wounded eight people including two school children in Sri Lanka’s far north on Friday, the military said, a day after a pro-rebel politician was killed in the restive east.

Colombo, June 29 (DPA) A politician of a minority Tamil party was killed in a hand grenade attack in eastern Sri Lanka as eight others were injured in two separate claymore explosions in the northern part of the island, military officials said Friday.

COLOMBO, June 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s annual economic growth slowed in the first quarter to its weakest pace in two years, on signs that high interest rates and the uncertainty of renewed civil war are taking a toll.

Scoreboard Thursday at the end of the first cricket test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at Sinhalese Sports Club ground:

The international community overseeing Sri Lanka’s battered peace process will be asking Colombo and the Tamil Tigers to start talking again to end renewed bloodshed that has claimed thousands of lives.

At least five bus passengers, including a soldier, were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Sri Lanka’s northern Vavuniya district on Friday, officials said.

New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The international community overseeing Sri Lanka’s battered peace process will be asking Colombo and the Tamil Tigers to start talking again to end renewed bloodshed that has claimed thousands of lives.

The JVP has ruled out the possibility of any alliance with the UNP as a partner thus dashing the..

Sri Lanka`s Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said Thursday he was optimistic that a meeting of t..