Sri Lanka News

"Green is the new Black" trumpeted the ridiculous Singapore Straits Times recently, just as uptight architects across the region started cladding their buildings' walls with ground covers.

May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Public Relations and Public Affairs Minister Mervyn Silva said he has decided to introduce a hotline for the people to lodge complaints and his Ministry would take steps to set up the hotline for public complaints.

"When the prison is under siege do you want the prisons commissioner have to read to them the Geneva Conventions?" The AG submitted a confidential report to the Court and Counsel Petitioner requested a copy to be issued to him.

May 22, Batticaloa: India launched its housing project to construct houses for the resettled families in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka Wednesday, the High Commission of India said in a statement today.

May 22, Kandy: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, participating in the Vesak Week activities, paid homage to the sacred Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy today and received blessings from the Chief Prelate of Asgiriya Chapter, Most Venerable Udugama Sri Buddharakkhita Maha Nayake thera.

May 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Sinhala Buddhist political party Jathika Hela Urumaya Wednesday revealed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution proposed by them.

Sri Lankan Tamil poet and journalist Theepachelvan Pratheepan shares the experiences of his petrified childhood days spent in the war-torn island nation with Rediff.com 's Shobha Warrier.

The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday said that it will use a key Commonwealth summit in November to showcase the post-war developments in the country.

The paddy fields are located east of Naavilaa'ru at Poovarasadith-thoaddam in Poththuvil DS division.

Sri Lanka's rugby authorities are investigating President Mahinda Rajapaksa's rugby-playing son after claims that he assaulted a referee.

Europol on Wednesday said 18 people, mostly Sri Lankans, were arrested in joint police raids in Britain and France on suspicion of being part of a human trafficking ring that smuggled South Asian immigrants into Britain.

The opening of San Francisco's first Sri Lankan restaurant sent a delicious shiver of anticipation down the spines of those who get excited about such things.

May 21, Colombo: Sri Lankan government generally respected religious freedom last year although in some instances, local authorities were not effective in responding to attacks on members of minority religious groups, the United States said in a report.

May 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka's trade unions and opposition political parties announced that more agitations are ahead against the increase of the power tariff as the strike launched Tuesday to send a message to the government failed to make any impact.

May 21, Colombo: The Coordinating Committee for a Joint Trade Union Alliance of Sri Lanka says today's token strike launched to protest the increase in the electricity tariffs is a success while the government says there was no effect in the public sector.

The international arrivals area in Sri Lanka's major airport has two kinds of shop: the usual duty-free perfume and alcohol stores, and shop after shop stuffed with second-hand home appliances.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to retrieve Katchatheevu and surrounding areas from Sri Lanka.

With the picturesque Bali Island in Indonesia, launching a massive tourism promotion, Sri Lankan tour operators were exploring the hitherto largely unexplored market, with a focus on joint ventures.

Sri Lanka's trade union alliance which has organised today's token strike against electricity tariff hike is confident of crippling the public, semi-government and private sectors.

Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states.