Pakistan committed to helping India in Mumbai probe : Rice
PAKISTAN: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she found Pakistan’s leaders to be “focused and committed” in helping India probe attacks in Mumbai that stoked tension between the two countries.
[Views:36] [Fri, Dec 05, 2008] [Full Article]

Sri Lanka, relief groups discuss aid for displaced
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | The government and international aid groups began working on Friday on a deal to deliver emergency food aid to 160,000 civilians displaced by Sri Lanka’s raging civil war in the wake of a ban on relief agencies in rebel-held areas.
[Views:136] [Sat, Sep 13, 2008] [Full Article]

Bed-ridden Lankan maid in Kuwait seeks help
A Sri Lankan maid who was employed in a house in Kuwait is now bed-ridden for eight months without any help at Al Razi hospital in Kuwait following crude ill-treatment by her masters, sources from Kuwait said.
[Views:201] [Wed, Aug 06, 2008] [Full Article]

Indian help for railway sector
The Indian Government has pledged US $ 168 million to Sri Lanka to develop the island’s railways sector.
[Views:156] [Tue, Jul 22, 2008] [Full Article]

Japan provides rice for IDPs
The Japanese Government donated 5,685 tonnes of rice and 110 tonnes of canned fish for the distribution among internally displaced people (IDPs), returnees and economically affected people in the most insecure and marginalised areas, states a Japanese Embassy press release.
[Views:149] [Thu, Jul 17, 2008] [Full Article]

Whole country a Peace Zone after Northern liberation - President
President Mahinda Rajapaksa asserts that his Government would seek to establish ‘Peace Zones’ not only in the precincts of sacred sites, but also in the whole country.
[Views:188] [Tue, Jun 24, 2008] [Full Article]

WB endorses US$ 900 m for Lanka
The World Bank has endorsed a lending package of US$900 million under the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Sri Lanka for the period July 2008 to June 2011.
[Views:184] [Sat, Jun 14, 2008] [Full Article]

Swift help for flood-hit
Government wheels moved swiftly to assist the affected as the death toll (16) and the number of displaced (over 150,000) rose alarmingly due to floods and landslides which wreaked havoc in seven districts.
[Views:195] [Tue, Jun 03, 2008] [Full Article]

Sri Lanka Seeking Compensation for Makkah Property
RIYADH, 29 May 2008 — Sri Lanka will seek compensation from the Saudi government for the Ceylon House in Makkah, which is marked for demolition to make room for the expansion of the Grand Mosque. The three-story building had been endowed by a Sri Lankan organization to house poor pilgrims from the island nation.
[Views:220] [Thu, May 29, 2008] [Full Article]

Sri Lanka offers 25,000 USD of donation to cyclone-hit Myanmar
The government in Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that it will donate 25,000 U.S dollars to the government of Myanmar to assist victims of the recent cyclone.
[Views:203] [Wed, May 07, 2008] [Full Article]

Dutch envoy donates bus to Karapitiya Hospital
Netherlands Ambassador Reynout van Dijik recently handed over a bus to Karapitiya Teaching Hospital Director Dr. Prasad Wijewickrema to be used as a Mobile Blood Bank on the request of Netherlands Alumni Association of Sri Lanka (NAAL) at its office in Colombo.
[Views:230] [Wed, Apr 23, 2008] [Full Article]

Hopes rise for cheaper gas
Sri Lankan households might get a chance to breath a sigh of relief if the Iranian Government agrees to sell Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to Sri Lanka at a concessionary price.
[Views:220] [Mon, Apr 21, 2008] [Full Article]

Rs. 1,500 m housing project to solve shelter problem
COLOMBO: The Government will implement a massive housing project at a cost of Rs. 1,500 million to end the prevailing shelter problem countrywide and to cater to housing needs of those who live below the poverty line, National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) Chairman Mohammed Rafeek told the News.
[Views:210] [Wed, Apr 16, 2008] [Full Article]

Indian rice for Lanka despite export ban
India has agreed to provide stocks of rice required by Sri Lanka despite the existing ban on domestic rice exports, following a request by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said Trade Marketing and Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunawardene. The Minister was speaking at a press briefing at the CWE Secretariat yesterday.
[Views:233] [Thu, Apr 03, 2008] [Full Article]

'Tharunyata Hetak' donates two new wards to A'pura military hospital
Two new hospital wards, constructed at the Anuradhapura Victoria hospital, following an initiative taken by the 'Tharunyata Hetak' project under the leadership of its president Namal Rajapaksa were formally handed over to Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka last morning.
[Views:223] [Tue, Apr 01, 2008] [Full Article]

Defence Ministry clarifies
COLOMBO: The Cabinet has approved a proposal to pay 25 per cent of the basic salary of war heroes to their parents.
[Views:257] [Sat, Feb 23, 2008] [Full Article]

UN budgeting bypasses women
When the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) holds a two-week session beginning next Monday, one of the lingering issues high on the agenda will be the continued under-funding of women’s activities at the United Nations. The primary theme of the two-week CSW session — Feb. 25 through March 7 — is “financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
[Views:232] [Fri, Feb 22, 2008] [Full Article]

Rs. 500 million for Eastern livelihood development
The Government has allocated Rs. 500 million for livelihood-based development activities in the Eastern Province, Deputy Minister of Nation Building and Development Susantha Punchinilame said yesterday.
[Views:240] [Mon, Feb 18, 2008] [Full Article]

Japanese grant for agricuture projects in Batticaloa
Japan provided US$ 153,553 (Approximately Rs. 16.56 million) to the Sewalanka Foundation and the Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya for agriculture restoration and food security projects in the Batticaloa district under its Grant Assistance for Grass roots Human Security Projects (GGP) scheme.
[Views:223] [Fri, Feb 15, 2008] [Full Article]

India to help Sri Lanka set up 500M-W power plant
Balachandran, Colombo, Feb 13 : India and Sri Lanka Wednesday agreed on a timetable to build a 500 MW coal-fired power plant in Veloor, near Nilaweli, in the eastern Sri Lankan district of Trincomalee.
[Views:230] [Wed, Feb 13, 2008] [Full Article]