May 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka today slammed former United States President Jimmy Carter and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu for making "irresponsible and biased" statements about the country's human rights situation.
May 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Marxist political party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), will dispatch a team of relief workers along with a medical team to assist in relief activities after the Sichuan earthquake in China.
May 21, Colombo: Continuing clashes between the troops and LTTE Tigers in the embattled Northern Sri Lanka killed 25 Tigers while the Air Force helicopter gunships attacked rebel targets near the battle fronts, the military said today.
May 21, Colombo: A senior commander of the LTTE, known as "Brigadier Balraj" who has led several attacks against the Sri Lankan military earlier died of a heart attack in Kilinochchi on Tuesday, the LTTE announced.