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In the first time, TNA participates Development & Reconciliation Committee

(Lanka-e-News 02.July.2009 4.30PM)The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will today participate at the Development & Reconciliation Committee established and headed by President... Full story >>

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Who said War end means peoples' happiness begins?: only Govt.’s serfs rewarded

(Lanka-e-News 02.July.2009 5.00PM) When the country’s economy is in tatters and peoples' lives are shattered by the soaring cost More >>

Basil Rajapaksa on a goodwill visit to Indonesia

(Lanka-e-News 02.July.2009 5.00PM) President adviser MP Basil Rajapaksa, is presently in Indonesia on a good will visit on the personal... More >>

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Sri Lanka Wants 50,000 More Soldiers in Areas Freed From Rebels
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka will recruit 50,000 personnel to increase security forces in areas captured when Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels were defeated last month,...

Sri Lanka extends amnesty to eastern armed groups
The Sri Lankan police has extended the period of amnesty granted to armed groups in the Eastern Province to hand over weapons,...

Sri Lanka face wicketkeeper puzzle
Galle, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka face a selection dilemma over their wicketkeeper as they gear-up for a tough three-test series against Pakistan starting in Galle on Saturday...

Plea for Sri Lanka Tamil refugees
A new group of eminent Tamil people in Sri Lanka has made a plea for those held in government camps to be given a timetable for their release...

"Separate country unrealistic" - Karunanidhi
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi says it would be unrealistic to talk of separate country for Sri Lankan Tamils...

Seek commonalities: Rajapaksa
COLOMBO: For the first time since a section of the Tamil groups in Sri Lanka took to arms 30 years ago to fight for their rights, representatives of all political parties came together here on Thursday at the inaugural meeting of the newly constituted...

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"Separate country unrealistic" - Karunanidhi

(Lanka-e-News 02.July.2009 4.00PM) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi says it would be unrealistic to talk of separate country...

Sri Lanka grants economic zone to China

(lanka-e-News 02.July.2009 3.15PM) Sri Lanka has given an exclusive zone to Chinese companies in an effort to attract more investment from Asia's largest economy....

"Invest in Sri Lanka" -Naveen Dissanayake

(Lanka-e-News 01.July.2009 1.30PM) This is a speech made by Investment Promotion Minister Navin Dissanayake at the BizPact “Invest in Sri Lanka ” International...

Who wants to silence the Tamil newspaper Uthayan? -RWB

(Lanka-e-News 01.July.2009 1.30PM) A hitherto unknown group calling itself the Tamil United Force to Safeguard the Country has threatened to kill all the employees...

India-Lanka undersea power cable pact soon

(Lanka-e-News 30.June.2009 2.15PM) India and Sri Lanka are set to energise their relations. Literally. The two neighbours will soon sign an MoU to study the feasibility of laying an undersea cable...

Sri Lanka public enterprises eating development capital: Dr. Sarath Amunugama

(Lanka-e-News 30.June.2009 1.15PM) Sri Lanka's state enterprises are eating capital that could have been used for the country's growth,...

Sri Lanka gets 891 m US$ Chinese loan for coal power expansion

(Lanka-e-News 30June.2009 1.00PM) Sri Lanka has got Chinese financing to add 600 Mega Watts of coal powered capacity to a generation complex...

Elephant Pass Railway Station to turn "Affection Port"

(Lanka-e-News 29.June.2009 1.30PM) The Ministry of Education has decided to gift the Elephant Pass railway station to the northern as an 'Affection Port'...

US warns travellers of Sri Lanka terror attack risk

(Lanka-e-News 29.June.2009 1.15PM) The United States issued Sunday a warning for its nationals traveling to or in Sri Lanka about the risk of possible...

Old Dharmasokians Appreciate Commander’s Role

(Lanka-e-News, June 29, 2009, 11.15 AM) Past Pupils Association in Ambalangoda Dharmasoka College paid their tribute to General Sarath Fonseka, Commander of the Army, himself a distinguished...

Sri Lanka emerge champion

(Lanka-e-News, June 28, 2009, 4.45 PM) Sri Lanka put up a commanding display to beat Singapore 77-48 in today’s final match to emerge champion in the Asian Championship which ended at the Juara Stadium here...

Grave threat to DEMOCRACY

(Lanka-e-News 28.June.2009 1.00PM) In 1973 when the draconian Press Council Bill was passed in Parliament an independent English language newspaper...

Search Operations in Wanni continue to recover more LTTE items

(Lanka-e-News 28.June.2009 11.45AM) Army troops on continuous search and clear operations in the general areas of...

New Chairman and Board of SLIC appointed

(Lanka-e-News 27.June.2009 4.30PM) In a bid to strengthen the insurance sector in the country, and to streamline insurance for the benefit of...

Misapplying R2P in Sri Lanka

(Lanka-e-News 27.June.2009 2.00PM -Essay- By Jorge Heine)The concept of Responsibility to Protect has triggered resistance in many countries of the Global South precisely because of its potential misapplication...

Army Commander Reviews Latest Security Situation in Wanni

(Lanka-e-News, June 26, 2009, 8.05PM) Commander of the army General Sarath Fonseka with view to reviewing the present security situation in the area...

Press Council’s restoration would be “dangerous step backwards” -RWB

(Lanka-e-News 26.June.2009 2.00PM) Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the impact on press freedom of a government decision to restore the former Press Council,...

Google shut down in China

(Lanka-e-News 26.June.2009 1.20PM) Chinese authorities on Thursday accused Internet giant Google of violating the country’s laws...

Summary of Cabinet Decisions

(Lanka-e-News 26.June.2009 11.30AM)Cabinet approved a memorandum submitted by the Minister of Finance and Planning Mahinda Rajapaksa to extend the service of the two rating agencies namely,...

Sri Lankan Tamil detainees give eye-witness accounts

(Lanka-e-News 25.June.2009 5.00PM) It is now more than one month since the Sri Lankan military detained the final batch of Tamil..

The reintroduction of the government-run press council is another marker of the decline of Sri Lanka’s democracy, says Uvindu Kurukulasuriya

(Lanka-e-News 25.June.2009 5.45PM) The guns are now silent in Sri Lanka. No more bayonets. But four newspapers out of 24 remain critical...

Bankrupted Foreign Ministry?

(Lanka-e-News 25.June.2009 3.25PM-Critic-) According to today's Island Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama has spent Rs. 10,512,716 for 25 visits abroad....

World Bank approves $24 million loan to Sri Lanka

(Lanka-e-News, June 24, 2009, 4.40PM) The World Bank has approved a US $24-million International Development Association (IDA) credit to Sri Lanka to improve healthcare,...

Sri Lanka Ambassador to Saudi Arabia passes away

(Lanka-e-News 24.June.2009 1.30PM) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces with profound sadness the death of Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Riyadh,...

European Commission funds €5 million for war displaced in North

(Lanka-e-News, June 24, 2009, 12.45 PM) Sri Lanka receives €5 million allocation from the European Commission to extend humanitarian assistance to war displaced civilians living in civilian welfare villages in the North...

London's Pro Tamil Tiger demonstration and the numbers game

(Lanka-e-News 23.June.2009 11.30AM) The London Metropolitan Police had to force the organizers to proceed and keep up with the schedule in the latest march,...

Cyprus Sri Lankans request President to Remove Corrupted Consul in Cyprus

(Lanka-e-News 22.June.2009 7.30PM) There are about 45 thousdand Sri Lankans working in Cyprus. Many of them are domestic workers. As in other countries, they also face numerious problems....

SL President has no intention to be in power beyond peoples mandate - Minister Anura Yapa

(Lanka-e-News, June 22, 2009, 5.55PM) The United Peoples Freedom Alliance(UPFA) led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa firmly believes in the peoples' mandate...

Reasonable fears if the country is on the path of a dictatorship -UNP

(Lanka-e-News, 20.June.2009, 11.30AM) United National Party (UNP) warns that there is reasonable fear and suspicion that the country is on the path of a dictatorship...

Israeli Officials visit to Sri Lanka

(Lanka-e-News 20.June.2009 4.00PM) The Deputy Director General of the Foreign Ministry of Israel Ms. Ruth Kahanoff, who was on a working visit to...

UNP to field a candidate for the Presidential; But not Ranil

(Lanka-e-News, 20.June.2009, 11.30AM) UNP has announced that a candidate will be fielded for the next Presidential. MP Lakshman Kiriella issued...

Sri Lanka bourse among world's best performing markets

(Lanka-e-News, June 19, 2009, 5.15 PM) Sri Lankan shares .CSE jumped 2.61 percent on Thursday to become one of the best-performing bourses among the world stock markets...

China releases US$ 65 million loan for an oil storage in South -Anura Yapa

(Lanka-e-News 19.June.2009 5.15PM) China’s Exim Bank released US$ 65 million loan to build an oil storage facility, a bunker, in the Southern coastal town of Hambantota....

Sri Lanka and Maldives agree on intelligence sharing

(Lanka-e-News 19.June.2009 4.30PM) Sri Lanka and the Maldives have reached agreement to share intelligence and exchange information on the flow...

Those who urge for abrogation of the 13th amendment must first get their Provincial Councilors resigned -Minister Lakshman Yapa

(Lanka-e-News, June 18, 2009, 9.10 AM) Minister of Media Lakshman Yapa Abewardhana says the government is not ready to abrogate the 13th amendment to...

Sri Lanka in the threat of swine flu

(Lanka-e-News, June 18, 2009, 9.10 AM) Sri Lanka health authorities identified the first case of H1N1, known as Swine flu or new influenza...

Pope appoints Malcolm Ranjith as Colombo archbishop

(Lanka-e-News 17.June.2009 12.30PM) Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don -one of his most trusted collaborators in the Vatican...

Colombo to Chennai Rs. 12500/- But Colombo to Jaffna Rs.22000/-

(Lanka-e-News 02.July.2009 4.15PM) Writing to the Acting Director General, Chief Executive Director of Civil Aviation, UNP Parliamentarian Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena has drawn...

Sri Lanka shares slip on IMF loan delay, low foreign funds

(Lanka-e-News 02.July.2009 3.45PM) Sri Lanka's stock market edged down for a third straight session on Wednesday, led by retail profit-taking amid concerns over...

On 2009 Failed State Index: Sri Lanka is 22

(Lanka-e-news 01.July.2009 5.30PM) In collaboration with the Fund for Peace, an independent research organization, the Foreign Policy Magazine has compiled...

Criminal gangs and the failure to invest in the administration of justice

(Lanka-e-News 30.June.2009 11.30AM) About a hundred criminals have been shot dead either in gun battles with the police or in mysterious circumstances like trying to attack police officers, even when handcuffed. This was revealed...

The priority number one, two and three of the Government are the IDPs -Keheliya

(Lanka-e-News 30.June.2009 6.00PM) “The priority number one, two and three of the Government is to make sure the IDP’s situation is taken and focused on” stated the Government Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya...

Yemeni airbus crashes into Indian Ocean

(Lanka-e-News 30.June.2009 1.00PM) A Yemeni A310 airbus with about 150 people on board has crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago, foreign media reported...

A museum on pre-historic era at Embilipitiya shortly

(Lanka-e-News 30.June.2009 1.00PM) New museum is to be set up in historically important Ranchamadama area in Embilipitiya and it will..

Sri Lanka Insurance to take bulk of Seylan shares

(Lanka-e-News 29.June.2009 2.30PM) Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation (SLIC) may take up the bulk of risk capital in bailing out Seylan Bank, while..

No room for Tamil Tiger militancy ever again in Sri Lanka -Army Spokesman

(Lanka-e-News 28.June.2009 5.00PM) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers defeated by the government troops would never be able to regroup, a local...

Eelam 2.0 the transnational government

(Lanka-e-News 28.June 2.30PM) With the fall of the final pocket of land under LTTE control and the death of the organisation’s founder and leader, the LTTE’s visions of...

Mass Sri Lankan Peace March in London

(Lanka-e-News 28.June.2009 2.30PM) It was another jubilant victory for the Sri Lankans in the UK when they took to the streets of London waving...

The politics of postwar Sri Lanka

(Lanka-e-News 28.June.2009 11.30AM -Critic By Dayan Jayatilleka-) As Paul Berman once wrote, "somewhere in the world it is always 1941". There comes a time in the life of every society when it is faced with an existential threat or challenge. It is the...

Still active prominant leader 'Col. Ram' operating from the forests: I have contacts with them -KP

(Lanka-e-News 27.June.2009 4.45PM) The LTTE's new chief Selvaraja Padmanathan says the group is giving up violence and adopting a non-violent agenda to secure the political rights of Tamils in Sri Lanka. In an exclusive email interview to Indian News media, Padmanathan said...

Sri Lanka accuses IMF of playing politics

(Lanka-e-News 27.June.2009 1.30PM) Sri Lanka on Friday accused the International Monetary Fund of politicizing financial aid following the fund's delay in considering a 1.9 billion dollar...

US to press for political reconciliation in Sri Lanka

(Lanka-e-News 26.June.2009 1.15PM) Observing that a lot needs to be done in Sri Lanka, Obama Administration's point man for South Asia yesterday(25) said the US would continue to press..

CID arrest astrologer for prediction

(Lanka-e-News 26.June.2009 1.30PM) Sri Lankan police say they have arrested a popular astrologer for publicly predicting President Mahinda...

Sri Lankan delegation assured to implement new proposal which would be an advance on the 13th Amendment -Indian foreign minister

(Lanka-e-News 25.June.2009 2.00PM) Sri Lankan officials visiting New Delhi yesterday (Jun 24) assured the Indian government that war-displaced Tamils would be returned to their homes after their camps are dismantled within six months...

Senior LTTE cadre in Kodikamam Area Shot Dead

(Lanka-e-News, June 25, 2009, 5.45PM) Having being informed about the presence of a few suspected persons in Kodikamam area,...

Tamil Tiger Mobs Attack Sri Lankan Cricket fans after the ICC Twenty20 Final

(Lanka-e-News 25.June.2009 12.30PM) Several Sri Lankans were attacked by Tamil Tiger mobs in London soon after the ICC Twenty20 Final cricket match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan...

Govt. must think of the challenges and country’s problems instead of endless celebrations and self glorification

(Lanka-e-News, June 24, 2009, 5.00 PM) The war victory does not give cause to the Govt. to celebrate and for the President to use it to self glorify forever...

Millions of rupees & 100kgs of gold recovered with military items

(Lanka-e-News, June 24, 2009, 4.25 PM) The SL Army troops recovered 100kgs of Gold and cash 6.5 million rupees (Rs.6491000.00) in a search operation conducted in the Pudukuduirippu,...

Sunday Leader lawyers withdraw from Gota's case

(Lanka-e-News, June 24, 2009, 9.20 PM) The Counsel for the Sunday Leader newspaper yesterday withdrew from appearing in the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s defamation case...

Pro-Tiger diaspora in a post-Prabhakaran scenario

(Lanka-e-News 23.June.2009 3.00PM)--Critical Essay By D.B.S. Jeyaraj-- A noteworthy feature of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been the special manner in which it glorifies death and pays homage to dead tiger...

Prasanna Vithanage’s “Akasa Kusum” Best film in Granada, Spain

(Lanka-e-News, June 22, 2009, 2.15PM) “Akasa Kusum” (Flowers of the sky), directed by Prasanna Vithanage, has won the...

Next is not a Prabakran but a Gandhi -S. Piyasena

(Lanka-e-News, June 22, 2009, 9.15 AM) S. Piyasena is a veteran journalist who associated many of the legendary politicians. He was also a diplomat and his son is now following his path. Eighty seven year old...

Tribute to President in hon title ‘Sri Lanka Rajawansa Vibhushana Dhrmadweepa Chakkrawarthi’

(Lanka-e-News 20.June.2009 11.30PM) A ceremony to pay Tribute to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in hon title ‘ Sri Lanka Rajawansa Vibhushana Dhrmadweepa Chakkrawarthi’ for...

Abductions, disappearances and unexplained killings continue in North and East

(Lanka-e-News 20.June.11.30PM) Abductions, disappearances and unexplained killings continue to be reported from the North and the East, although there has been a drop in the number...

Three persons nabbed while plotting to kill the President; conspiracy uncovered

(Lanka-e-News, 20.June.2009, 11.30AM) A special police team arrested a LTTE suicide cadre who was residing in Colombo to kill the President Mahinda Rajapakse...

Dilshan powers Sri Lanka to final

(Lanka-e-News 20.June.2009 11.30AM) It will be an all-Asia final at the ICC World Twenty20 after Sri Lanka maintained their unbeaten record by crushing West Indies...

LTTE foreign intelligence wing underpins Army statement on the way Prabakaran was killed

(Lanka-e-News, 19.June.2009, 8.30AM) An organization called Department of Intelligence of the LTTE has issued a statement to internet yesterday (18) begging pardon from Tamil people..

War-risk rating of Sri Lanka down graded –IBSL

(Lanka-e-News 19.June.2009 2.45PM) The Sri Lankan insurance market has received a boost when the Joint Cargo Committee (JCC) London lowered the risk rating...

'Lanka-e-News' penalized for informing the abduction of media organization chief

(Lanka-e-News, June 02, 2009, 9.00 PM) Gangodavila chief magistrate released 'Lanka-e-News' editor-in-chief Sandaruwan Senadheera and news editor Benet Rupasinghe...

Police questions 'Lanka-e-News' editors regarding informing the police chief about the abduction of Poddala Jayantha

(Lanka-e-News, June 02, 2009, 2.25 PM) Mirihana police has detained for interrogation the News Editor of 'Lanka-e-News' since last evening...

Moderate European Tamils say that the Diaspora Tamils have forgotten ‘God Krishna’ and camphor

(Lanka-e-News, May 29, 2009, 5.25 PM) The Tamil Diaspora has shamelessly forgotten the LTTE that was totally eliminated in Sri Lanka...

Lanka-e-News awarded most creative website of Sri Lanka of 2008

(Lanka-e-News, October 29, 2008, 9.10 AM) Lanka-e-News was awarded the most creative website of Sri Lanka of 2008 last night at an awards ceremony held by ....