Sri Lanka News

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has decided to opt for a presidential election two years ahead of schedule, government sources said Monday.

General Sarath Fonseka has been confirmed as the United National Front's common Presidential candidate, United National Party Deputy General Secretary Lakshman Seneviratne told Adaderana a short while ago.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to hold the Presidential election first, Media Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa told Adaderana a short while ago.

Monday, November 23, 2009 By Salman Siddiqui COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake has offered help, assistance and expertise to Pakistan for eliminating terrorism.

The condition of Ooththuchcheanai-Vadamunai road, filled with pock marks and pot-holes due to persisting rains, was the cause of the accident, the sources said.

SEVEN Afghan and Sri Lankans have been injured in a massed brawl on Christmas Island involving 150 detainees.

There seems no difference between the Colombo Hindu College Ratmalana and any other school, except for the armed police officers guarding the gate.

Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.

KARACHI: The countrya s electronic goods retain a good demand in the Sri Lankan market which has a dearth of cheap and good quality electronic items, said Sri Lankan Consul General VS Sidath Kumar in a meeting held recently with the members of Karachi Electronic Dealers Association.

Via ColomboPage.com: Sri Lanka Health Ministry orders H1N1 vaccine amid rising death toll .

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith will sound out his Commonwealth counterparts on ways to help stem the flow of refugees from Sri Lanka.

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived here Tuesday on a four-day visit, diplomatic officials said.

Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 12:14 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 15, Colombo: A sudden fire inside a medicine storage unit has engulfed the Ampara base hospital in Eastern Sri Lanka, police sources said.

Sri Lankan refugees are helped to board an Australian Customs Service patrol ship, to transport to an Australian-funded detention center in Tanjung Pinang, on the Indonesian Island of Bintan, Indonesia on Nov.

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes has confirmed that more than half the Tamils who were in refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka have now left them.

External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has said the government is in talks with Sri Lanka to bring back the Indian prisoners languishing in jails in that country.

Chief Minister M KarA unanidhi. CHENNAI: Observing that the decisions taken by the LTTE at crucial junctures of their struggle were done without a political vision for future, Chief Minister M KarA unanidhi on Tuesday charged that the Tigersa call for boycotting the 2005 presA idential elections in Sri Lanka had resulted in the present crisis.

The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited , signed a landmark agreement today.

Dozens of Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Wednesday left an Australian customs vessel anchored off Indonesia after they were promised they would be resettled, ending a monthlong standoff.

Tue, Nov 17, 2009, 08:33 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 17, Colombo: Two prison guards of the Anuradhapura prison in Sri Lanka have been injured in an attack carried out by a group of prisoners this morning.