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Media organisations in Sri Lanka have urged the authorities to investigate all recent attacks on media personnel and institutions. The watchdogs say they will stage a protest on 25 January in Colombo against a series of attacks against media personnel in recent years. It will especially mark “Black January” during which many prominent media personnel ...
- Media protest confined to Fort station compound (Category: Breaking News)
- Media groups to mark 'Black January' (Category: Breaking News)
- Pro-govt demonstration against media protest (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Navy denies another alleged attack on Indian fishermen (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)
The newly elected president of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has once again has predicted that at least five years will be needed to resolve its financial crisis. Upali Dharmadasa, who was elected uncontested on 03 January, said the SLC will get a considerable amount of income from future tours of other Test playing nations by ...
- SLC hires former ICC Chief Lorgat as Special Adviser (Category: Business)
- Former Lanka cricket chief Thilanga wants his position back (Category: Business)
- SJB calls for sacking of SLC management (Category: Breaking News)
- South Africa backs Sri Lankan cricketers’ pay dispute: Smith (Category: Business)
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)
The Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover’s sensational new SUV – a car that won 34 international awards in the three months after its first production model came off the line in September 2011 – has arrived in Sri Lanka. The smallest, lightest, most fuel-efficient Range Rover ever produced, the Evoque has been described as ‘one ...
- Range Rover Evoque sponsors top authors at GLF (Category: Business)
- Victoria Beckham turns designer hand to cars (Category: Business)
- Britain’s best new cars (Category: Business)
- Range Rover to serve Hill Club tennis as Diamond Sponsor (Category: Business)
Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna is to make an official visit to Sri Lanka on 16 January to discuss bilateral relations and security in the region. The Government web site news.lk said that in an interview given to the Indian Journal Business Standards, Krishna has said that the Indian Government has never provided overt or ...
- India,Lanka working closely for release of fishermen (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to talk with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Send a team to SL: Congress MPs (Category: Breaking News)
- India blamed for rights abuses in Sri Lanka (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)
BBC: Hoteliers in a popular tourist destination in Sri Lanka have accused a local politician of blackmailing them and demanding ransom from hotels at the peak of a tourism season. The Hikkaduwa Hoteliers Association (HHA) told BBC Sandeshaya that the town’s Mayor, Winnie Kariyawasam
- Mayor accused of blackmailing hoteliers (Category: Breaking News)
- Mayor for Hikkaduwa remanded for bribery charges (Category: Breaking News)
- Typhoid outbreak among Colombo city hotel workers (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourists desert Tangalle beach (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)
- President says the country will protect those who love the motherland (Category: Breaking News)
A shocked leisure industry yesterday decried the deadly attack on tourists in Tangalle over the weekend as the biggest setback for the sector which was rebounding following the end of the war. They urged the Government and law enforcement authorities to ensure harshest punishment against those responsible whilst calling for adequate measures to ensure safety ...
- UK and Russia 'commend' investigations (Category: Breaking News)
- UK and Russia 'commend' investigations (Category: Breaking News)
- Business as usual for professionally-managed southern hotels (Category: Business)
- Govt. reiterates law will prevail over Tangalle tourist tragedy (Category: Business)
(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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LONDON (Reuters) – England captain Andrew Strauss is aiming to complete four successive Ashes series victories over Australia with wins at home in 2013 and again on the return leg in 2013-14. “Playing in back-to-back Ashes series would be a realistic goal,” Strauss told BBC radio
- Sri Lanka v England: Andrew Strauss says quitting hasn't crossed his mind as he seeks to sto... (Category: Breaking News)
- Ashes just the first step, vows Strauss (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Strauss happy but not cocky about top spot (Category: Business)
- Ruthless England braced for new challenges (Category: Business)
36,371 people were killed on the UK’s roads in the 10 years to 2010 according to the BBC. But despite this, the lowest number of deaths occurred in the UK’s Motorways, which would be similar to Sri Lanka’s new Highway. The Motorways are not crash-free
- Multi-vehicle crash involving state trooper, fallen pole on I-70 near Marriottsville Road (Category: USA, Maryland)
- Multi-vehicle crash involving state trooper, fallen pole on I-70 near Marriottsville Road (Category: USA, Maryland)
- Multi-vehicle crash involving state trooper, fallen pole on I-70 near Marriottsville Road (Category: USA, Maryland)
- Five accidents reported on Sunday in E-01 (Category: Breaking News)
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 »
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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.
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