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• Indian Humanitarian on 3-day Sri Lanka Peace Mission

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:57 Author:

    Art of Living founder and humanitarian, H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar concluded his three-day peace mission to Sri Lanka assuring the displaced Tamils that they would return in peace to their homes very soon. During his visit, Sri Sri also met wit...

• Sri Lanka denies IMF loan delay

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:56 Author:

     Sri Lanka has denied reports that a proposed loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is being delayed by the US, officials say. ...

• Colombo indices gain on new buyer interest

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:52 Author:

      The Colombo share market on Thursday saw some new buyers in selected high value counters - especially in JKH, analysts said. ...

• UN Security Council is to meet again today, appointment of envoy likely Lanka before the UN Security Council for the third time

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:47 Author:

    UNITED NATIONS, April 30 – The United Nations Security Council is set to meet in a few hours time at the UN basement to discuss the Sri Lankan crisis and is likely to appoint a UN envoy, the Inner City Press news agency said....

• No time for ceasefire: time yet for surrender - President

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:44 Author:

    We have at no time gone for a ceasefire. We will not do so now. There is no time for that now. In the five or six days remaining we have given the opportunity for the LTTE to lay down their arms and surrender to the Armed Forces and, even in t...

• Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in making

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:24 Author:

      Activists expressed their deep anguish and concern on unabated mass killings in Sri Lanka which is, as they underlined, "no short of a humanitarian disaster in northern Sri Lanka"....

• Let Humanity And Nature Coexist

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:22 Author:

    While the rest of the country seemed to be drawn in the vortex of mud slinging and shoe throwing, as the lead in to the on going Lok Sabha elections, a group of common citizens was deliberating the more serious issue of the dangers of nuclear powe...

• Technology helps to stamp-out burglaries

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:20 Author:

   Crime in general and burglaries in particular are known to have spiked in all parts of the globe as the world economy falls deeper into recession.  Here in Sri Lanka, people’s life and property are not exempt from this worrying phenomenon.  Acco...

• Protest over school girl abduction in Batticaloa

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:19 Author:

      Schools in Batticaloa remained closed today as a park of protest over the abduction of an eight year old school girl on Tuesday from near her school. The missing girl has been identified as Sadishkumar Nirushika a student of Batticaloa...

• IMF team in Colombo to discuss $1.9 bln loan

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:14 Author:

     The $1.9 billion Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) facility sought by the Sri Lanka government from the IMF has now reached an advanced level of finalization with an IMF team currently in Colombo, the Central Bank said on Thursday....

• We will not surrender: LTTE

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:13 Author:

   :The Tamil Tigers' political chief says the beleaguered rebel group will not surrender to advancing Sri Lankan forces and denies holding thousands of civilians as human shields....

• Jaya threatens a Bangla on Lanka

  Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:11 Author:

  AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa, 61, vowed on Wednesday to send the Indian army into Sri Lanka to carve out a separate Tamil Eelam state for Sri Lanka Tamils, if her party joined the next government at the Centre and had the numbers to play a decisive role i...

• Sri Lanka ministries to function all seven days of the week

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:34 Author:

   Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the Secretaries of all the Ministries not to confine their work to week days and regular hours....

• Former chief minister of Sri Lanka WPC to act as tutor again

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:33 Author:

    Reginald Cooray, former Chief minister of the Western Province today said that he has decided to resume his first career of his life once again and will serve the nation as a tutor. ...

• No Pork from Mexico and Europe, says Sri Lanka

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:31 Author:

   Sri Lanka government has decided to immediately ban the imports of pork from Mexico and European countries. ...

• Prakash Raj to play LTTE chief Prabhakaran in new film

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:29 Author:

     BANGALORE: Multilingual actor Prakash Raj says he has been offered the role of LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran in a Tamil film and that he will be doing it....

• Resettlement process begins in North

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:13 Author:

  The government has commenced the resettlement process in the Mannar district at the Musali Divisional Secretariat area and the first batch of villagers will come back to their original properties. ...

• 'Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman hatched plot to kill Rajiv'

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:07 Author:

   Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman hatched the diabolical plot to kill former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi silently" without the knowledge of anyone in the outfit, a former close confidant of the LTTE supremo said on Wednesday....

• French & British Foreign Ministers Receive First-Hand Updates from Civilians

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:50 Author:

    FRENCH and British foreign ministers, accompanied by several Sri Lankan ministers, secretary to Foreign Ministry and senior officials arrived at the Manic Farm Relief Village today (29) to receive a first-hand assessment of the prevailing sani...

• Salients of the Media briefing

  Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:49 Author:

     When the LTTE terrorists were confined to 6 km area, Security Forces stopped using heavy weapons like artillery guns and also stopped air strikes. Since then, the Security Forces had advanced one more km. confining the terrorists to a mere 05 km...