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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf yesterday welcoming Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama who is ..

The Mannar Bishop, Rev Rayappu Joseph, said yesterday that he had strictly ordered the LTTE not to e..

Harsha Wickramasinghe, Deputy Director General of the Sustainable Energy Authority, called for `chan..

So, the witch-hunt against the Rupavahini workers who had the pluck to stand up to some political ve..

A fisherman sustained minor injuries on Wednesday morning when foreigners sailing in two yachts, 30 ..

Though SLFP General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena and other senior Ministers promised to take disci..

Sri Lanka`s new cricket chief and former captain Arjuna Ranatunga has revealed his board has no mone..

Global concern is mounting over Sri Lanka’s worsening human rights record, but action by key international players has been “slow and lacked cohesion,” Human Rights Watch said in its annual report.

Attempts by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers to attack Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) bases in the southern Forward Defense Lines (FDLs) in Mannaar, Vavuniyaa and Ma’nlaa’ru were defeated in counter attacks by the LTTE, Mannaar operations command of Tigers said Thursday. SLA is feared to have suffered heavy losses in the battles.

Two Tamil youths identified as Sinnathambi Danapalasingham aged 25 years and Krishanapille Rajaram aged 19 years have been shot dead by suspected LTTE gunmen at Kannagipuram at Akkariapathtuwa this afternoon (Sunday the 14th of January).

(RTTNews) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up in Sri Lanka’s embattled Jaffna peninsula on Thursday killing at least four people and injuring 17 others, seven of them grievously.

Sri Lanka’s new cricket chief and former captain Arjuna Ranatunga has revealed his board has no money left and is banking on financial support from India to stay afloat.

ISLAMABAD (February 01 2008): Pakistan and Sri Lanka have agreed to push for enhancing the volume of their bilateral trade to $1 billion per annum from existing $385 million in next few years, officials from both sides said here on Thursday.

TOKYO — Japan’s envoy to Sri Lanka’s peace talks warned the Sri Lankan government Thursday that Tokyo may review its financial aid if it further accelerates its military pressure on Tamil Tiger rebels in the wake of the end of a six-year cease-fire between the two sides.

Japan has warned Sri Lanka that Tokyo might cut its aid to the island

Japan`s special pea..

“Sri Lanka Police has no authority to collect private personal details especially financial details even during the current State of Emergency in Sri Lanka,” Mr. R. Yogarajan, the Vice President of Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) said in an interview to BBC Tamil service Thursday. The forms distributed to the Tamils by the police in Sinhalese language calling for personal details including place …

Jan 31,Colombo: The New York-based Human Rights Watch today said that the global concern is mounting over Sri Lanka’s worsening human rights record, but action by key international players has been �slow and lacked cohesion�.

Jan 31, Colombo: Japan, one of the main donor countries of Sri Lanka, today warned that it could cut off aid if violence continues although Sri Lanka wants Japan to continue it.

Jan 31, Thulhiriya: MAS Holdings Private Limited, one of the leading apparel exporter in Sri Lanka has opened up a new public training institute, MAS Institute of Management and Technology (MIMT) to boost the management and IT education in Sri Lanka.

Jan 31, Colombo: Minister of International Trade, Prof. G.L. Peiris reveals that the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India will include trading services, in addition to the manufacturing sectors.

Jan 31, Colombo: Two road accidents involving privately-owned public transport buses killed two people in separate accidents on the Colombo-Kataragama road yesterday.

Jan 31, Colombo: A mysterious fever has been spreading in the Erathna area in Kuruwita for few days, medical sources said.

Jan 31, Colombo: Two timber dealers who had been abducted last night were found shot dead at Akkaraipattuwa this morning.

Jan 31, Peradeniya: None of the nursing staff members of the Peradeniya hospital have reported to work despite yesterday’s court orders to halt their trade union action, hospital sources said.

Jan 31, Jaffna: Three civilians of a same family were shot dead by suspected Tamil Tiger gunmen at Chawakachcheri in Jaffna last night, defence sources said.