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Sri Lanka charges Carter and Tutu with making biased statements

21.05.2008 16:35    colombopage.com
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.


Sri Lanka Marxist party to send relief workers to help Chinese earthquake victims

21.05.2008 16:35    colombopage.com
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.

Sri Lanka to launch its own satellite

21.05.2008 16:35    colombopage.com
May 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka will launch its own first satellite in the near future, an official told the media.

Fighting continues in Sri Lanka's north, 23 Tigers killed

21.05.2008 16:35    colombopage.com
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.

LIOC increases its diesel price in Sri Lanka

21.05.2008 16:35    colombopage.com
May 21, Colombo: The Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC) has announced that it will increase the price of diesel by Rs. 20 per litre at midnight today.

Sri Lanka to have its own satellite.

21.05.2008 16:34    lankanewspapers.com
Sri Lanka Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) has taken the first step towards launching ..

LTTE aircrafts attacked

21.05.2008 06:50    lankanewspapers.com
Two F-7 aircrafts left from Katunayaka yesterday (16) evening for attacking two LTTE aircrafts that ..

Sri Lanka Human Rights Minister`s closing statement at UPR

21.05.2008 06:50    lankanewspapers.com
Statement delivered by Ms. Shirani Goonetilleke, Director, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Pr..

No nation should be ever forced to negotiate with terrorists

21.05.2008 06:50    lankanewspapers.com
US President George W. Bush recently made some valuable comments on terrorism and extremism and the ..

Not just the ticket! - Sri Lanka Buses

21.05.2008 06:50    lankanewspapers.com
Private bus crews of today seem to have borrowed a leaf out of the book of the highwaymen of yore in..

LTTE adopts hit and run tactics after defeat on northern fronts

21.05.2008 06:50    lankanewspapers.com
The LTTE in the face of defeats on the Mannar front continued its hit and run tactics targeting ..

Pillaiyan joins other Chief Ministers to demand full powers to PCs

21.05.2008 06:50    lankanewspapers.com
All chief ministers of the eight provincial councils including the recently elected chief minist..

Brigadier Balraj passes away - LTTE

21.05.2008 06:50    lankanewspapers.com
Brigadier Balraj, a senior and a special commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE), pa..

Senior rebel commander dies of heart attack, LTTE says

21.05.2008 02:10    colombopage.com
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.

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