Sri Lanka News Explorer
Last 7 Days
Older News
- Older than 2023-Dec (473)
Narrow by Category
- Breaking News (464)
- Business (9)
World media reporting on the record achieved by Murali has hailed him for re-inventing the sport. International media published various reports on Muralitharan who became the first bowler in the history of test cricket to achieve the milestone of 800 wickets. BBC said that Murali re-invented
- Murali back in Gloucestershire (Category: Breaking News)
- Murali retires from test cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- President hails Murali as son of the soil (Category: Breaking News)
- Lycamobile provides £250,000 to Murali (Category: Breaking News)
It is entirely possible that Muthiah Muralitharan will play the second Test against India, although he has announced his retirement after the first. If he claims just seven wickets in the Galle match he would tally 799. An impressive enough figure, but if the temptation to become the first bowler to claim 800 Test wickets ...
- Murali Officially Announces Retirement (Category: Breaking News)
- Thanks Murali, For Our Triumphs And Your Legacy (Category: Breaking News)
- World praise for Murali (Category: Breaking News)
- Murali the Enigma (Category: Breaking News)
Former Sri Lanka rebels 'abused in detention' By Swaminathan Natarajan BBC Tamil service Former Tamil Tiger rebels detained in Sri Lanka say they have been ill-treated in government camps with no basic facilities. In letters and phone calls to BBC...
- LTTE detainees will be treated differently (Category: Breaking News)
- New laws replace emergency regulations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still detained, torture alleged (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt.: Not Same Law For LTTE Suspects (Category: Breaking News)
By Oliver Brett It looked like a Test match that would attract only cursory interest in a calendar so bogged down with international fixtures. But now Sri Lanka’s match against India in Galle starting on July 18 will be a very special one, bringing to an end the phenomenal test career of one of the ...
- Muralitharan Takes 5-63 to Close on 800-Wicket Mark in Final Cricket Test (Category: Breaking News)
- Record Haul (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka's spin wizard Murali bids farewell to Test Cricket with record 800 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka beat India in cricket Test (Category: Breaking News)
By Vangeesa Sumenasekara One of the central weaknesses of the recent debate or discussion in Sri Lanka around the strange term "private" universities apropos its possible consequences to the men and women living within the national boundaries of Sri Lanka...
- Sri Lankan universities and marketing orientation (Category: Business)
- Research on human resources: Reflections and reinforcements (Category: Business)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
from BBC News: The UN's secretary-general has recalled his top envoy to Sri Lanka and is closing an office in Colombo because of angry protests over a war crimes panel....
- "LTTE engaging in overseas activities only" Sri Lanka Minister of External Affairs says (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka and tea: Headed for a bountiful new beginning (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Fault Lines - Arundhati Roy (Category: Breaking News)
- AlJazeera Video: India expresses concern over China's contruction projects in South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
from BBC News A Sri Lankan minister says he has begun a hunger strike outside the UN's Colombo offices demanding that it stop its probe into alleged war crimes. Housing Minister Wimal Weerawansa's announcement follows two days of demonstrations outside...
- Water Woes (Category: Business)
- Reaction (Category: Business)
- Panel Pressure (Category: Business)
- Protest (Category: Business)
By Charles HavilandBBC News, Colombo On a leafy Colombo corner, surrounded by hundreds of his nationalist supporters and Buddhist monks, Sri Lankan cabinet minister Wimal Weerawansa burns an effigy of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Mr Ban is a figure of...
- We have the responsibility to safeguard our leaders, soldiers who brought peace to this country-... (Category: Breaking News)
- UN On Alert (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says UN panel 'will not be allowed' to enter (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan government urges UN General Secretary not to pressurize SriLanka at UN (Category: Breaking News)
Excerpts of Minister Weerawansa's interview (in Sinhala) with BBC's Colombo correspondent, Charles Haviland:...
- Sri Lanka says UN panel 'will not be allowed' to enter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Govt had no hand in leaking UN advisory panel report to media says GL Peiris (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says UN panel 'will not be allowed' to enter (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia reprimands Ban-Ki-moon for setting up panel on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankan cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan is planning to retire within the next few days, the BBC Sinhala Service reported. A source close to the player said he is definitely...
Sri Lankan cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan is planning to retire within the next few days, the BBC Sinhala Service can exclusively reveal. ....
Sri Lankan cricket legend Muralitharan is planning to retire within the next few days, BBC Sandeshaya can exclusively reveal.
by Charles Haviland In a horrific turn of events in Sri Lanka's biggest city, Colombo, between seven and ten hawkers, homeless people or beggars have been murdered in the space of a few weeks....
- Douglas County to use leftover CARES Act money to help families in need (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Douglas County to use leftover CARES Act money to help families in need (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Douglas County to use leftover CARES Act money to help families in need (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Fungus threatens to wipe out bat population (Category: USA, Washington)
Pradeep Amirthanayagam was installed as the Golden Jubilee President of the Rotary Club of Colombo West yesterday (3). The glittering event was held at the Cinnamon Grand, amidst a large and distinguished gathering comprising of parliamentarians, members of the diplomatic corps and the business community. Performances by Soul Sounds and the Police Band added to ...
- Pradeep Named Rotarian Of The Year (Category: Business)
- Free cataract surgeries for 50 people of the low income group (Category: Breaking News)
- Migrant kids set sail (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Hammond Rotary marks 100 years of supporting community efforts (Category: USA, Indiana)
Current moves undermine further Democracy in Sri Lanka By Dr. S. Narapalasingam The Government of Sri Lanka has been successful in brushing off the alleged accusations of war crimes during the final stage of the war and violations of the...
- Confusion over national reconciliation, unity and lasting peace in post-war Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Devolution will strengthen and uphold democracy and national unity (Category: Breaking News)
- Deadly Symbols, Vibrant Electoral Politics and War Crimes in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala symbols, war, peace and ethnic reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
BBC Sandeshaya The detained former military commander in Sri Lanka says he is prepared to meet the special panel appointed to advice the UN chief on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. Gen Sarath Fonseka told BBC Sandeshaya that...
- Fonseka 'ready to talk' with UN panel (Category: Breaking News)
- UN report in White flag case (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Govt. allow UN panel to meet SF? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ready to face UN charges says Fonseka - Report (Category: Breaking News)
By Charles Haviland, BBC News, Colombo Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has denied reports that the government is forming an "alliance" with the "rump" of the Tamil Tigers. The rebels, known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),...
- Govt is Using KP's Data base on the LTTE to Crush the international tiger network-Defence Secret... (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka for talks with Diaspora (Category: Breaking News)
- KP urges Diaspora to stop campaign (Category: Breaking News)
- Veteran LTTE Leader Pathmanathan alias "KP" meets Gotabhaya and GL Peiris along With Tamil dias... (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lankan Government has shown deep concern over what are called Buddha Bars in international restaurants, states the BBCs Thamil Osai. ....
Sri Lanka played host to its first surfing championship at Arugam Bay, just over a year after the end of the long war against the LTTE. As dawn breaks over Arugam Bay, a fisherman casts his net into the lagoon near the long, low bridge that links the remote village to the rest of the ...
- Fun Waves (Category: Business)
- Seaplane Flights (Category: Business)
- Calm before the tourism storm as Sri Lanka's eastern coast awakens (Category: Breaking News)
- Seaplane services to Arugam Bay (Category: Breaking News)
By S.V.Kirubaharan, France The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka...
- What’s Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- The Most powerful man in Sri Lanka is brother Gotabhaya not President Mahinda (Category: Breaking News)
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka I hope everyone saw Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, with Russell Crowe in the title role. The BBC History channel backed it up with a two hour programme, piecing together the legend from historical fact and circumstance....
- Robin Amos Kahn: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Soufflé (Category: Features)
- Robin C. Miller (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Robin C. Miller (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Robin C. Miller (Category: USA, Indiana)
Inquiries are to be held over allegations that pregnancy test are being held prior to employing workers in tea plantations of Sri Lanka, BBCs Tamil service Thamil Osai has reported quoting Plantations Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe. ....
from the BBC: The Sri Lankan foreign minister has said that a UN panel on human rights will not be allowed into the country. GL Peiris said that there was "no need" for the panel to come to the country...
- Sri Lanka says UN panel 'will not be allowed' to enter (Category: Breaking News)
- Head of UN panel of experts expresses regret over Sri Lankan government's decision (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s UN allies express solidarity (Category: Breaking News)
- Reaction (Category: Business)
The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka. The true stories about the return of the internally displaced people – IDPs, the present feelings of the Tamils
- Stephen Sackur checkmated Defence Secretary on several occasions during “Hard Talk” BBC interview (Category: Breaking News)
- The Most powerful man in Sri Lanka is brother Gotabhaya not President Mahinda (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka threatens to execute General Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
BBC HARDtalk 4: Presented by Stephen Sackur: "HARDtalk has come to Sri Lanka, a year after government forces finally defeated the Tamil Tigers, to end Asia's longest running war. But now the talk is of reconciliation and rebuilding; but how...
- Louise Arbour on the responses thus far to ICG report on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Protest against Burma Military Junta, near Burma Embassy in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Interviews with Mr. Robert Templer of ICG and Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Temple University (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Black & White - 15.03.2013 (Category: Video)
By Matthew Russell Lee Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa administration insists that its panel on "Lessons Learned" is a sufficient response to reports of tens of thousands of civilians killed in the final stage of the conflict last year. On June 18,...
- Money robbed from Palitha Kohono: Investigations against inner city press journalist (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia opposed (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Panel of Experts' report Russia opposes (Category: Breaking News)
- Accountability is up to SL-France (Category: Breaking News)
BBC HARDtalk III In the third of a special HARDtalk series in Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur reports on what is happening to the thousands of child soldiers who took part in the war. HARDtalk is the hard-hitting flagship news programme...
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
- HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Hard Talk Part 2 -Democracy Sri Lankan style (Category: Breaking News)
June 16, 2010: 11.00 am Siobhain McDonagh: (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab): I am grateful for the chance to highlight again the appalling treatment of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government....
- Answer given by British Prime Minister to question on Sri Lanka War Crimes Tribunal (Category: Breaking News)
- British Parliament spotlight on Sri Lanka again (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil American Peace Initiative Responds to SL Foreign Minister’s US Visit (Category: Breaking News)
- 41 British MPs urge Prime Minister Cameron to support an independent, international war crimes i... (Category: Breaking News)
BBC HARDTalk, June 2010 In the second of Hardtalk's exclusive series of programmes in Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur talks to journalists who live with the threat of intimidation and murder. He talks to the opposition presidential candidate, former General Sarath...
- Louise Arbour on the responses thus far to ICG report on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Protest against Burma Military Junta, near Burma Embassy in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Interviews with Mr. Robert Templer of ICG and Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Temple University (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Black & White - 15.03.2013 (Category: Video)
With its foreboding lighting effects that appear to have been plucked straight out of Dante's dark epic Inferno-and cleverly devised one suspects to reduce its willing, and oftentimes unsuspecting, "victims" to submission-the BBC's HARDtalk program has attained a universal reputation...
- BBC HARDtalk III - Sri Lanka's child soldiers (Category: Breaking News)
- BBC meets its match in Gotabhaya, says news column (Category: Breaking News)
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
- HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North (Category: Breaking News)
Popular Topics
- International Monetary Fund (183)
- Political crisis (155)
- Foreign exchange reserves (81)
- Shortage (3)
- Bank reserves (18)
- Anonymous (5)
- Fuel (7)
- Economy of Sri Lanka (473)
- Russia (10)
- Ukraine (8)
- Sri Lanka Tea (473)
- Tourism (11)
- Sri Lanka Quality Tea (473)
- Sri Lanka Tourism (473)
- Sri Lanka Cricket (473)
- Sri Lanka Hotels (473)
- Sri Lanka Elections (473)
- Sirasa (1)
- Adaderana (1)
- Hiru Tv (76)
- ITN News (473)
- Shakthi Tv (76)
- Rupavahini (4)
- Derana Dream Star (55)
- EPF (1)
- BBC (473)
- Rob Ford (2)