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Sri Lanka end the opening day of the second Test with a slight advantage after four late wickets against India.

Sri Lanka end the opening day of the second Test with a slight advantage after four late wickets against India.

Ajantha Mendis and Chaminda Vaas led Sri Lanka’s fightback after Indian opener Virender Sehwag missed out on a rare feat of scoring a century before lunch in the second Test on Thursday.

GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - India were 214 for four at the close of the rain-interrupted first day of the second test against Sri Lanka on Thursday.

July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Air force MI 24 helicopters raided an LTTE bunker line this morning in the embattled North while raging ground battles across the region killed 24 Tamil Tigers and a soldier, the military said.

Play resumed after a rain delay of more than three hours on the opening day of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka on Thursday.

The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka yesterday ruled that recently evicted residents of the in Slave Islan..

A Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Bell 212 helicopter, which was airlifting wounded Sri Lanka Army (SLA) ..

`Frequently now I wonder whether Sri Lanka would have been a much more peaceful and much more homoge..

The Ministry of Health begins a series of programmes to test women for breast and cervical cance..

Fighting in Sri Lanka kills 25, as regional conference in Colombo starts.

With a political breakthrough achieved over the highly-contentious issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal..

Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers killed in renewed fighting (AKI) - At least 24 Tamil Tiger separatist rebels and a soldier have been killed in fresh fighting in Sri Lanka’s north, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The rebels, members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were killed in the Vavuniya and Mullaitivu districts on Wednesday, the ministry said. A government soldier …

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flies to Sri Lanka Friday to attend the 15th SAARC summit that will bring together leaders of eight countries from a region that is increasingly looking at democracy as the answer to its many problems.

Sri Lanka Telecom, the country’s top fixed line phone operator, reported a near tripling in quarterly net profit, boosted by growth in its mobile arm, Mobitel, and its stock rose 4 percent.

Jayalalithaa threatened to move the SC to challenge the validity of secession of Katchathivu Island to SL under the 1974 Indo-Sri Lanka pact.

Rain stopped play after the morning session on the opening day of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka at the Galle International Stadium on Thursday.

SRI LANKA is to cut the number of housemaids it sends to Bahrain as part of efforts to stamp out cases of abuse, it emerged yesterday. Honorary consul-general P B Higgoda said that the plan was part of a Middle East-wide initiative to replace housemaids with more skilled and semi-skilled workers.

SLanka - SAARC - Summit Sri Lanka’s Media Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa has lamented the lack of reporting in the media on issues of development and too much focus on politics.

At least 24 Tamil Tiger rebels and a soldier were killed in fresh fighting in Sri Lanka’s north as the island prepared to host a summit of South Asian leaders, the defence ministry said Thursday.

Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir smashed unbeaten half-centuries Thursday as India raced to 151 without loss in the opening session of the second cricket test against Sri Lanka.

g COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Sri Lankan army launched a wave of attacks against Tamil Tiger separatists in the north, sparking battles that killed 24 rebels and one soldier, the military said Thursday.

GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Opener Virender Sehwag scored an unbeaten 91 and India were 151 without loss at lunch on the first day of the second test against Sri Lanka on Thursday.

GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Opener Virender Sehwag scored an unbeaten 91 and India were 151 without loss at lunch on the first day of the second test against Sri Lanka on Thursday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—The Sri Lankan army launched a wave of attacks against Tamil Tiger separatists in the north, sparking battles that killed 24 rebels and one soldier, the military said Thursday.