Nov 17, Colombo: Manel Mal Movement (Movement of Water Lilies) of Sri Lanka has organized a Brotherhood Train to run from Matara to Medawachchiya on November 22 to collect aids with the hope of helping internally displaced Tamil people and
Nov 17, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has declared a "Ranaviru Upahara week" beginning today to pay tribute to the soldiers engaged in the military operations to liberate the North.
Nov 17, Colombo: Informed sources say that around 70 cadres of Sri Lanka's Eastern Province based breakaway rebel party Tamil People's Liberation Tigers (TMVP) have fled the organization to rejoin the Tamil Tiger rebels during the past few months.
Nov 17, Colombo: Sri Lanka's National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa signaled the viability of a general election in the aftermath of the Pooneryn military victory and the pending capture of de-facto rebel capital Kilinochchi.
Nov 17, Colombo: A powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale struck off the Indonesia's north Sulawesi province early Monday, Indonesian seismologists said.
Nov 17, Colombo: Sri Lanka Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa says that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran can continue his strategic withdrawals from....
Nov 17, Colombo: The doctors of Batticaloa district of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka are on strike since this morning seeking protection for them after an unidentified gunman killed a doctor last night.
Nov 17 Colombo: Sri Lanka ruling party United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) says that they are not in any hurry to hold a general election at this moment.
Nov 17, Colombo: Sri Lankan government today said that they have not taken any decision yet to dissolve any of the provincial councils before their terms end.
Nov 17, Colombo: Following the reduction in diesel prices, Sri Lankan Railway Department has also decided to reduce the train fares with effect from December 1st.
Nov 17, Colombo: President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa as Commander-In-Chief today extended the term of the Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka for another year.
Nov 17, Vavuniya: Increasing the harassment against minor Tamil political parties in Sri Lanka two Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) members have been shot dead in Vavuniya last night.
Nov 17, Colombo: Sri Lankan Health Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva today said the government will make a special frame work to protect the doctors who work in the North and Eastern provinces.
The BJP has announced that it will petition Election Commission on Congress using ATS for vote bank politics. The judicial remand of eight of the ten accused, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, in the Malegaon blast case has been extended
Braving freezing temperatures and ignoring separatists' boycott call, Voters came out in large numbers in some towns with an average 55 per cent turnout recorded in the first phase of the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir held amid unprecedented