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Two hundred Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka are stranded in West Africa, BBC reports, after the human smuggling ring they hired to bring them to Canada marooned them in Togo. The BBC says the contingent travelled by ship from Sri Lanka to India, then on to Ethiopia before flying to Togo
- Bound for Canada, stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- 200 Sri Lankan refugees stranded in West Africa (Category: Breaking News)
- Smugglers dump Canada-bound Tamils in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (Category: Breaking News)
Some two hundred Sri lankan refugees stranded in the tiny West African state of Togo have told the BBC that they fear for their life if they are deported back to their country. .
Stranded refugees from Sri Lanka, in the tiny West African state of Togo have told the BBC that they fear for their life if they are deported .
“Undercover Princes”: If the title makes you think of dashing Hohenzollerns trading secrets in romantic locales, think again. For one thing, the reality dating series of this title, beginning on Tuesday on TLC, is set not in Venice or Gstaad or even London but in the chip shops and seaside pubs of Brighton, England, which looks ...
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- Newlywed Prince William back at work (Category: AU, New South Wales)
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News Pre-premiere of ‘Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile’ and panel debate The Fritt Ord Foundation invites the public to a debate and film screening of Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile on Thursday 9 February 2012, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Vika Cinema (Vika 2) in Oslo. There will be ...
- New film tells story of Sri Lankan journalists forced into exile (Category: Breaking News)
- Silenced Voices speak – the real Sri Lanka story (Category: Breaking News)
- Movie on Sri Lankan journalists in exile (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Unpunished Crimes (Category: Breaking News)
BBC WS speak to Shehan Karunatilaka whose debut novel set in Cricket-mad Sri Lanka won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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- Road mishaps kill 223 schoolchildren in 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia slow Sri Lanka charge (Category: Breaking News)
- India Take On Sri Lanka In Asia Cup Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Thalaimannar IDPs 'made refugees again' (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has reportedly ordered 161 foreign Muslim preachers to leave the country for flouting visa regulations. A senior immigration official was quoted as saying that the clerics had no right to preach in mosques because they had arrived on tourist visas, BBC reports. .
It’s December 2010, and two young law students are sitting for their exam. The one is in a hall full of students, who are being monitored closely by the examiner to make sure they’re following the rules: no phones, no electronic devices, no cheating. The other, meanwhile is taken to a private air conditioned room with a computer ...
- Sri Lanka Law college has passed Mr. Namal Rajapakse, failed me (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal was provided with A/C room for exam because there wasnt enough room in the exam Hall L... (Category: Breaking News)
- Law student who opposed Namal Rajapaksha abducted in white Van: released later in dead of night (Category: Breaking News)
- President cast his vallot (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Nothing is closer to the law of the jungle than a system of distorted laws and procedures” Haaretz Editorial (2.1.2012) President Rajapaksa won the Eelam War, with the help of countless others (including the imprisoned Gen. Fonseka). In fairytales, the hero who saves a country from some deadly peril is rewarded with ...
- Rajapaksas have rendered the judiciary as subservient as the armed forces or the police (Category: Breaking News)
- UPFA MP Says Hakeem Will Lose (Category: Breaking News)
- We will create an education system that protects dignity of labour – President (Category: Breaking News)
- We will create an education system that protects dignity of labour – President (Category: Breaking News)
Below is an interview with Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke published in the French Diplomatic Review – La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter) Two years after the end of a three decades conflict, the lifting of the emergency rule in late August 2011 confirmed the beginning of a new era for Sri Lanka. With the recent discovery of ...
- France assures assistance to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt (Category: Breaking News)
- French President Emmanuel Macron pledges strong support for debt restructuring in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- France continues support for Sri Lanka’s renewable energy plans (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has denied the Sri Lankan government was under pressure from India to devolve more powers to the provinces. "No no no no, there was no pressure. Neither India nor other country can dictate how our country is governed," he has said. Mr. de Silva, who is heading the SLFP delegation to talks with the TNA, was responding to a question...
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
The head of a UK charity that sent a consignment of wheelchairs to Sri Lanka has condemned the decision to impose customs duties of over $8,000 (£5,180), the BBC reported. Peter Thompson, of the Yorkshire-based PhysioNet charity, said the shipment for Tamil war victims
- UK charity condemns 'wheelchair tax' by Lankan authorities (Category: Breaking News)
- Salman to help rehabilitate child soldiers in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Chicken and eggs imported to Sri Lanka to be distributed tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government distributes four million imported eggs among Lak Sathosa outlets (Category: Breaking News)
“…by clever and persevering use of propaganda, even heaven can be represented as hell to the people, and conversely the most wretched life as paradise”. Hitler (Mein Kampf) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Impunity is illimitable. If the law was allowed to take its normal course after the Kolonnawa mini-war, the Christmas Eve murder of a ...
- Strong parliament vital to accelerate development (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourist activities not affecting fishing industry Basil (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreigner killing - three arrested, wanted politician still at large (Category: Breaking News)
- New Year parties in hotels in Sri Lankas Southern city of Tangalle cancelled (Category: Breaking News)
The head of a UK charity has condemned the imposing of a customs duty of over US$ 8000 for a consignment of wheel chairs that were sent to Sri Lanka for war victims, the BBC website reported. Peter Thompson, of the Yorkshire-based PhysioNet charity, said the shipment for war victims
- UK charity condemns wheelchair tax (Category: Breaking News)
- Chicken and eggs imported to Sri Lanka to be distributed tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government distributes four million imported eggs among Lak Sathosa outlets (Category: Breaking News)
- Food Imports (Category: Business)
More than 26,000 displaced people are yet to be allowed to resettle in their ancestral lands occupied by high security zones (HSZ) in Jaffna, according to Sri Lanka's main Tamil political party, the BBC reported. The BBC reported that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has submitted a report
Tributes have been paid to a "committed" Red Cross worker who died after being attacked on Christmas Day while on holiday, the Press Association reported Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Manchester, a physiotherapist working for the International Red Cross in the Middle East, was killed in the tourist resort of Tangalle, about 100 miles south of the capital Colombo. Unmarried Mr Shaikh was t...
- Hamas says 13 Israelis handed over to Red Cross (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan deportee blames UK for repeat of torture ordeal (Category: Breaking News)
- Booklet recalls most damaging SC wildfire (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Foreign Minister meets High Commissioner for Human Rights (Category: Breaking News)
The Tamil hit song ‘Kolaveri di’ has become a hit in India and Sri Lanka thanks to its catchy beat and words. Now a Sri Lankan born British singer Arjun Coomaraswamy has released an English remix of the track in London and it has reached almost 2 million hits on YouTube. The English version of ...
A British man killed on holiday in Sri Lanka has been described as a “committed” Red Cross worker. Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Manchester, was a physiotherapist working for the International Red Cross in Gaza. He died early on December 25 after an attack on him and a colleague in the tourist resort of Tangalle. Four people have ...
- 'Over 15,000 missing in Sri Lanka' : Report reveals (Category: Breaking News)
- SLFP headquarters to be shifted to Red Cross building (Category: Breaking News)
- RED CROSS APPEAL FOR GREATER ASSISTANCE FOR NORTHERN RECOVERY (Category: Breaking News)
- Polls nomination to fight dengue (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Upali Dharmadasa, the main contender for the presidency of Sri Lanka Cricket has said that he was confident of taking the cash-strapped body back on track if he wins the elections on January 03. He has told BBC Sandeshaya that the main reason for the SLC to be “
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- Can images stop data overload? (Category: Technology)
- Elected-Partial,400 (Category: USA, South Dakota)
Sydney Morning HeraldSri Lanka president declared poll victorFinancial TimesMahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was on Wednesday declared the winner of a second six-year term in the country's first ...World Agenda: troop movements ruined Sri Lanka's reputation, observers claimTimes OnlineSri Lanka's Fonseka seeks fresh pollAFPBeaten Sri Lankan general considers asylum in Austr...
- Sri Lanka's real human rights record - The Guardian (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan meet Sri Lanka in SAG opener - The News International (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan stocks open lower after poll - Lanka Business Online (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Inflation Accelerates, Adding Pressure on Rates - Bloomberg (Category: Breaking News)
BBC NewsSri Lankan leg spinner Malinga Bandara signs for KentBBC NewsKent have signed Sri Lankan leg-spinner Malinga Bandara as an overseas player for the second half of next season. Bandara, 30, is due to arrive in mid to ...and more »
- Buddhism Means Always Having To Say You're Sorry: Tiger Woods Edition (Category: Features)
- Video: Kumari Sandasara - Latha Walpola, Dhammika Bandara (Category: Video)
- Video: Yali Hamuwannata - Mihira Manthila (Category: Video)
- Video: Tharaha Wela Gihin Tharanga Bandara FullHD (Category: Video)
Sri Lanka may take action against defeated opposition presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, the defence secretary says.
Robert O. Blake, Jr. Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Washington, DC February 22, 2010 ~ Interview With BBC World News ~ BBC: What is the American view of what is taking place in Sri Lanka? Live...
The BBC's Swaminathan Natarajan reports on escalating fears about a crackdown on media and political freedom in Sri Lanka.
Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka - currently detained in military custody - is to stand in April’s parliamentary polls. Party sources told the BBC that he would lead a new opposition alliance. Sri Lanka’s authorities have meanwhile announced a raft
- Fonseka speaks of assassination plan (Category: Breaking News)
- Fonseka refused lunch today (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Navy medics to check Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- Fonseka to reamain in custody (Category: Breaking News)
Persons of Sri Lanka Peoples Party (SLPP), a constituent of ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA), caught and held N. Parameswaran, a senior Tamil journalist in Jaffna peninsula, the correspondent of BBC Tamil service and Daily Mirror, Saturday from 9:00 a.m til 9:30 in front of the SLFP
- Three heroin distributers arrested in Jaffna! (Category: Breaking News)
- Nishanthan dismissed from the Jaffna Municipal Council (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspect escaped from the Jaffna prison (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaffna courts suspended the protest of Jaffna Medical Council (Category: Breaking News)
A Sri Lankan born Tamil man has been sentenced to nearly five years of jail in Britain for creating a website trading in stolen financial information, BBC reported.
A woman in northern Sri Lanka wins a top award from the US state department for her work to unite Muslims and Tamils.
A woman in northern Sri Lanka wins a top award from the US state department for her work to unite Muslims and Tamils.
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