- Sri Lankan judiciary, parliament at loggerheads By : Country News
Sri Lanka's new school admission policy has been delayed over fears that it might lead to a head-on collision between the legislature and the judiciary. - 10 LTTE rebels reportedly killed in Sri Lanka Navy attack By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lanka's Navy destroyed a suspected Tamil Tiger boat and damaged another early on Monday while on a routine patrol near Trincomalee. - Sri Lanka navy sinks rebel boats, eight insurgents dead By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lanka's navy said it destroyed an LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) boat and damaged another, killing at least eight insurgents off the island's eastern coast Monday. - Sri Lankan President visits Maldives amid domestic problems By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse left on a three-day state visit to the Maldives today even as dissatisfaction among his recently sacked ministers gathered steam. - Two Sri Lankans killed in explosion in rebel-held area By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan air force jets shelled a suspected Tamil Tiger base in rebel-held Mullaitivu district for the fourth straight day today. - Sri Lankan Jets hit Tiger targets By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan airforce jets today bombed suspected Tamil Tiger targets in the island's east, the defence ministry said. - 10 killed in Sri Lanka violence By : Sri Lanka News
The new year dawned with a fresh wave of violence in Sri Lanka, claiming the lives of 10 people in the northern and eastern parts of the island, a military official said Monday. - NTPC to set up power plant in Sri Lanka By : Country News
New Delhi, Dec 29 : The state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will set up a 500MW thermal power plant at Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. - Sri Lanka invites Inox to build new multiplexes By : India Corporate News
Sri Lankan government has invited Inox Leisure Limited to expand its network with new multiplexes in that country, company Director Deepak Ashar said. - Eleven workers killed in eastern Sri Lanka By : Sri Lanka News
Eleven dead bodies of Muslim civilians were recovered from Ampara district in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday morning. - Five Lankan refugees arrested while trying to return illegally By : Sri Lanka News
Five Sri Lankan refugees have been arrested on charges of attempting to go back to the island nation by an illegal ferry service, police said today. - Tamil Lankan refugees recount horror of 'Jaffna battle' By : Sri Lanka News
The fresh batch of 378 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees reaching here recounted their horrific experiences of the ongoing battle between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers in the Jaffna peninsula. - Lanka disturbed about Norway making decisions without consulting it By : World News
In an emerging diplomatic row, the Sri Lanka Government has said that it is highly disturbed by Norway's Oversea's Development Minister Eric Solheim's unilateral statement about Colombo agreeing to participate in next week's peace talks without even consulting it. - Sri Lanka military recovers lost ground By : World News
The Sri Lankan military on Monday recovered some lost ground and took control of the Sampur town in the crucial Trincomalee District which had earlier gone in the hands of Tamil rebels. - Lanka fighting disrupting people's return to homes in Muttur By : Sri Lanka News
A new flare-up of fighting in Sri Lanka has disrupted people returning to their homes in the northeastern Muttur town, the scene of recent violence and military operations, according to the UN refugee agency. - 12 LTTE boats destroyed: Sri Lanka By : Sri Lanka News
The Sri Lankan Navy has destroyed 12 boats of the Tamil Tigers in a fierce battle in the northern seas, the government said Saturday. - IOC hikes fuel prices in Lanka By : World News
The Sri Lankan subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation has raised fuel prices by 7 percent to keep pace with soaring global oil prices. - President in surprise talks with Blair By : Sri Lanka News
Amid wide speculation, President Mahinda Rajapaksa suddenly flew to London last afternoon for talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and others, a government source said. - Five Year Plan for raising power capacity By : Sri Lanka News
A Five Year National Plan on Power and Energy Development has been implemented to provide quality service at cheaper rates to people under the direction of Power and Energy Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne, a Ministry official said. - Sri Lankan Tamil journalist released By : Sri Lanka News
A kidnapped Sri Lankan Tamil journalist was released this morning after a nearly day of captivity. - Lanka president makes surprise visit to London By : World News
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse today made an unannounced visit to London, leaving even some of his top aides unawares. - 32 killed in Sri Lanka clashes By : World News
Government troops and Tamil rebels exchanged mortar and artillery fire in northeastern Sri Lanka Monday, killing at least 12 soldiers and 20 others, believed to be civilians, military officials and reports from the area said. - Lankan troops fire at rebel positions in northeast By : World News
Sri Lankan troops fired at positions held by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the Northeast of the island nation today to offset any attack on a key naval facility. - SEBI chief suggests India-like IPO grading for Sri Lanka By : Business India News
Securities and Exchange Board of India chief M Damodaran has suggested that Sri Lanka should consider introducing a system of grading public issues, similar to what is prevalent in India, to make it easier for investors to understand IPOs. - US crackdown a sweeping setback for LTTE By : Sri Lanka News
The arrest of eight Tamil men in the US on charges of attempting to buy sophisticated weapons marks a new low for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, now battling the most serious.... - Sri Lanka allows direct Indian food imports to Jaffna By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lanka today allowed private traders in the island's embattled Jaffna peninsula to import food directly from south Indian ports. - World press body condemns Tamil newspaper editor's murder By : World News
Reporters Without Borders, the international press freedom organisation, has condemned the killing of the managing director of a Tamil newspaper in Sri Lanka. - Lanka firm set for Indian entry By : World News
Sri Lanka's 'Dutch Lanka Trailers' expansion drive into India got another boost after private investors pumped in two million dollars through an equity investment. - Fighting in Sri Lanka amid humanitarian crisis By : World News
Fighting between Sri Lanka troops and the Tamil Tigers continued in the island amid fears of a serious humanitarian crisis looming in Jaffna due to shortages of food and medicines. - Lanka says Pak's new envoy Chaudhry to replace Mohamand By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lanka today announced that Pakistan has named Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Shahzad Aslam Chaudhry as its new envoy to Colombo, replacing Bashir Wali Mohmand whose tenure has come to an end. - Sri Lanka fighting dies down By : World News
There was a lull in fighting after a week of intense battles between the Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE that left over 500 dead, even as Colombo said its troops were consolidating its position in Jaffna peninsula. - Sri Lanka taking only defensive action By : World News
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has said that his troops were only taking defensive action against aggression by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the northeastern conflict zones, officials said Wednesday. - 68 killed in Sri Lanka, Pakistani envoy targeted By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lanka's blood-soaked conflict took another gory turn Monday when 61 Tamil girls perished in air strikes in the island's rebel-held north while a bomb blast blamed on the Tamil Tigers narrowly missed killing the Pakistani envoy in Colombo but claimed seven lives. - 45 civilians, four soldiers killed in Sri Lanka By : World News
As many as 45 Tamil civilians and four soldiers were killed in escalating violence in Sri Lanka between the military and the Tamil Tigers, officials and Tamil sources said Thursday. - Lanka mounts offensive against Tigers, 45 civilians killed By : World News
At least 45 civilians were today killed as Sri Lankan Army attacked Tamil Tiger rebels with supersonic jets and artillery in the same area where intense fighting occured for a fortnight over control of a waterway, officials said. - Water released into disputed Lanka canal By : World News
Water flowed down a disputed canal in north-eastern Sri lanka today after the Tamil Tiger rebels ended a 19-day blockade following the intervention of peace broker Norway. - Five killed in Lanka blast By : World News
Five people, including a doctor, were killed when their ambulance was hit by a Claymore mine in northern Sri Lanka today, a pro-Tamil Tiger website said. - Tamil Tigers lift water blockade in Lanka, blast kills 3 By : Sri Lanka News
Tamil Tigers today lifted a blockade of a canal over which they fought heavy battles with security forces for over two weeks leaving 440 people dead, hours after three people.... - Doctors work to separate conjoined US twins By : World News
After 12 hours of surgery to separate four-year-old conjoined twin girls, surgeons in the US have separated their intestines and pelvis and are working to separate their liver. - Sri Lanka launches fresh strikes against LTTE positions By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan military today resumed shelling Tamil Tiger positions in the island's embattled northeast, a day after the rebel warned that such strikes could lead to a full-scale war. - Sri Lanka calls LTTE to peace table By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lanka today asked LTTE rebels to return to the peace talks and expressed its commitment to find a negotiated settlement to all issues even as fighting between Tamil tigers and government forces escalated in the country's north-east region. - Senior Lanka police official killed in landmine blast By : Sri Lanka News
A senior police official was killed and his driver injured today in a mine explosion triggered by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in central Sri Lanka, police said. - Sri lanka army shelling blocks opening of sluice gates By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan troops today shelled suspected Tamil Tiger positions in the north-east, holding up a deal worked out by peacebroker Norway to open a blocked canal at the centre of the bloodiest fighting in.... - Fresh clashes kill 21 in Sri Lanka By : Sri Lanka News
t least 17 civilians and four policemen were today killed in artillery attacks in Sri Lanka's northeastern Muslim-majority town of Muttur, military officials said. - Sri Lanka government committed to political settlement: envoy By : Sri Lanka News
The Sri Lankan government is committed to the ceasefire agreement reached with the LTTE "despite grave provocations by the banned militant group", the island nation's Deputy High.... - 10 killed in artillery fire in Sri Lanka By : Sri Lanka News
An artillery shell hit a school in an eastern Sri Lanka town Thursday killing 10 civilians hiding there to escape fighting, Sri Lankan military said. - Govt ready to talk to Tigers as fresh clashes kill 21 By : Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan government today offered talks with Tamil Tigers to end the week-long fighting over a disputed irrigation canal in the island's northeast as fresh artillery attacks in the troubled region claimed 21 lives, raising the death toll to at least 156. - 47 killed in fierce fighting between rebels, Lanka troops By : Sri Lanka News
At least 47 people, mostly rebels, were killed and 70 others injured in fierce fighting between the Sri Lankan security forces and Tamil Tigers after the guerrillas attacked three army camps and a town in the restive northeast, raising fears that the island nation was heading for a full-scale war. - Renewed Sri Lankan air strikes against LTTE By : Country News
Sri Lankan air force carried out more raids against Tamil Tiger positions Saturday, defence officials said, as Denmark pulled out of the international truce-monitoring group. - Sri Lanka resumes air attacks against Tigers By : Country News
Sri Lankan Air Force jets bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in the northeast of the island for the fourth consecutive day today as Finland and Denmark announced that they....
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