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Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s government withdrew an order censoring media coverage of the South Asian island nation’s civil war three days after imposing the measure.

SYDNEY, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Australia named the following 13-man squad on Thursday for the first test against Sri Lanka starting in Brisbane on Nov. 8.

A claymore mine explosion allege triggered off by LTTE terrorists injured two Army personnel near the Jaffna town area, on Thursday the 11th of January, at 07:15 a.m.

Nov 01, Colombo: Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) says that it will introduce new digital electric meters from next year.

Nov 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Marxist People’s Liberation Front (JVP) has launched a weeklong countrywide series of agitations starting from today.

Nov 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat said that the gazette to cancel a previous gazette notice imposing a press censorship on country’s civil war reporting would be issued today.

Nov 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s major player in the gas market, Shell Gas increased the price of a 13.5-kilo cylinder by Rs. 15 with effect from today.

Nov 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka says that the authorities are engaged with the Indian counterparts to obtain permission from the Indian government to import rice from India.

Nov 01, Colombo: President Mahinda Rajapaksa denied allegations that five persons are killed every hour in Sri Lanka due to conflict and said that government has taken all measures to protect human rights.

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Special Advisor to the President and newly sworn in MP, Basil Rajapaksa told the Daily Mirror that a..

Categorically denying State sponsored human rights violations of any nature, President Mahinda Rajap..

SSP Neville Guruge, Director Investigations, Commission to Investigate Allegations against Bribery o..

Contrary to denial by the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) and the Military Spokesman, a tr..

Nov 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Police sources said that the assailants of Kumudu Champika Jayawardhana waited around half an hour near his residence at Gnanendra Mawatha, Nawala to accomplish their mission.

Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s government withdrew an order censoring media coverage of the South Asian island nation’s civil war three days after imposing the measure.

Indian investors, planning to invest overseas, have the option of investing in the Sri Lankan debt market as it has recently opened the treasury bills (TBs) market to foreign retail investors. Sri Lanka’s central bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said here on Wednesday that in late January Sri Lanka offered up to 5% of the total TBs worth $400 million, to foreign investors. These bills are of …

Indian investors, planning to invest overseas, have the option of investing in the Sri Lankan debt market as it has recently opened the treasury bills (TBs) market to foreign retail investors. Sri Lanka s central bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said here on Wednesday that in late January Sri Lanka offered up to 5% of the total TBs worth $400 million, to foreign investors. These bills are of …

Armed men in a white van abducted Wednesday around 7:00 a.m an elderly man residing in the High Security Zone (HSZ) of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Kuppi’laan north in Eazhaa’lai in Valikaamam north, according to complaints made to Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna, Wednesday noon by his relatives.

Those seeking higher education told to give brother/sister to Tigers:

The LTTE, the self..

Oct 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa to day visited Hambantota Port Development Project site on an inspection tour.

SRI Lanka’s government overturned a ban on reporting troop deployments overnight and proposed military operations and arms procurement, just hours after news of the censorship broke.

Oct 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka government today announced that it lifted measures restricting war reporting on a directive from the President.

Sri Lanka has imposed censorship on war reporting a week after Tamil Tiger rebels carried out a deva..

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s government overturned on Wednesday a ban on reporting troop deployments and proposed military operations and arms procurement, just hours after news of the censorship broke.