Commandos do not normally address press conferences. Like spies, special operations units are supposed to work in the shadows...

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Freedom Party - People's Wing leader says that his life is under death threats.

Nov 28, Colombo: Another Fundamental Rights petition was filed in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka yesterday seeking to order the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) to reduce price of fuel locally parallel to the prices in the world market.

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Media and Information Anura Priyadharshana Yapa said the government brought all media to one stand regarding fight against terrorism.

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka government has estimated that the defense budget of the year 2008 would be exceeded by around 30 billion rupees amounting to 200 billion rupees for this year.

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Chief Government Whip, Minister Dinesh Gunawardhana said in the parliament yesterday that each of the 20 million Sri Lankans shoulders a debt burden of Rs. 163,425 state loans.

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Chief Government Whip Dinesh Gunawardena said in the parliament yesterday that the state had leased 100 acres of land in a suburb of Colombo city to Prima company for 55 years at Rs. 100...

Terrorists return gun fire and are hurling grenades from the Taj Hotel even as sources say operation to flush out terrorists from old Taj hotel may take a few more hours, may go on till wee hours. Taj hotel remains

Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gilani accepted a request from his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to send the ISI chief to India for sharing of information related to the terrorist attack in Mumbai.

After battling the terrorists for two days at the Oberoi-Trident, the National Security Guards cleared the hotel of militants, killing two of them while six bodies were recovered from the premises.

The batch of terrorists who reached Mumbai on boats two days ago to execute the worst terror attack on India had killed and thrown off-board three members of the crew of Kuber...

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Disaster Relief Services Amir Ali Sahabdeen said the government has taken speedy measures to provide necessary relief to the people in the Jaffna penisnula affected by the recent torrential rains brought about by

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lankan troops undeterred by the hostile weather in the battlefronts continued their forward movements towards Kilinochchi.

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered a special security network to cover the tourist hotels in the capital Colombo and its suburbs, the government announced.

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lankan Supreme Court today ordered the suspension of Petroleum Resources Minister A.H.M. Fowzie and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) Chairman Asantha de Mel with immediate effect.

Nov 28, Colombo: Statistics on Colombo Consumers' Price Index (CCPI) released today by Sri Lanka's Central Bank showed that the inflation has declined for the month of November

Nov 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka Parliament today strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in India's commercial capital Mumbai that killed more than 150 people and injured 370.

Nov 28, Kandana: The Police have recovered a pair of shoes each containing explosives at Kapuwatte in Kandana, along the Colombo - Negombo highway last night.

Nov 28, Batticaloa: A Non Governmental Organization staff member was shot dead by unidentified persons in Batticaloa last night.

A WOODEN boat intercepted off the West Australian coast is carrying 12 Sri Lankans, police say. br..