These financial companies are illegal
Central Bank shuts stable after horse fled: Central Bank of Sri Lanka says that five financial companies other than Sakvithi Construction Company that lured clients through a massive advertising campaign in newspapers are accepting deposits illegally although the Central Bank has not vested in powers to them to do so.
[Views:210] [Sat, Sep 27, 2008] [Full Article]

Sri Lanka-flagged ship sinks in Bay of Bengal
DHAKA - A ship carrying more than 3,000 tonnes of rice from India sank near the outer anchorage of Bangladesh's Chittagong port on Wednesday, port officials said.
[Views:205] [Thu, Aug 21, 2008] [Full Article]

Jayalalitha moves court to retrieve island from Sri Lanka
Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the central government to retrieve from Sri Lanka the Kachatheevu island off Rameshwaram that India ceded in 1974.
[Views:192] [Fri, Aug 08, 2008] [Full Article]

Southern Sri Lanka Shaken By Tremors
Southern parts of Sri Lanka were shaken Wednesday by minor earth tremors around 5:45 to 5:50 a.m. local time, the meteorological department said. Sri Lanka's Geological Survey and Mines Bureau said that officers have been dispatched to the site of the tremor and the cause was being investigated.
[Views:195] [Wed, Aug 06, 2008] [Full Article]

Duminda unmasked by Anarkali
Celebrated actress Anarkali Akarsha who was to marry young politician Duminda Silva in December says that if this is how politicians in our country conduct themselves, she would rather be a free ordinary citizen than the wife of a gun-wielding politician.
[Views:1762] [Mon, Jul 21, 2008] [Full Article]

Court stops UK from returning Tamil to Sri Lanka
STRASBOURG, France - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that an ethnic Tamil man denied asylum in Britain could not be sent back to his native Sri Lanka because he would be at risk of torture there.
[Views:205] [Fri, Jul 18, 2008] [Full Article]

SRI LANKA ILLICIT SMALL ARMS A THREAT TO BUSINESS: SURVEY
COLOMBO, June 30- The proliferation of illicit small arms in Sri Lanka not only fuels crime but has indirect costs on business as well as the environment, a new survey says.
[Views:166] [Mon, Jun 30, 2008] [Full Article]

SRI LANKA OIL STRIKE SOME YEARS OFF: OFFICIAL
COLOMBO, June 26 Asia Pulse - An offshore oil strike in Sri Lanka is still some years off with opportunities for local business to support a petroleum industry even further away, during the development phase, a senior official said.
[Views:193] [Thu, Jun 26, 2008] [Full Article]

Government and UNICEF to tackle nutrition crisis
COLOMBO, 24 June 2008 - For more than 20 years Sri Lanka has been grappling with high rates of under-nutrition among children younger than five, according to health experts.
[Views:152] [Tue, Jun 24, 2008] [Full Article]

Tamil gang members convicted in sword crime
Seven members of a Sri Lankan Tamil gang led by a heinous criminal named Psycho who by using a Samurai type sword left another Tamil man’s profusely bleeding hand hanging from his wrist, were convicted by a criminal court of the Old Bailey.
[Views:198] [Mon, Jun 23, 2008] [Full Article]

Floods kill 17 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO- The death toll from a week of torrential rain across Sri Lanka has risen to 17 and more than 253,000 people have been driven from their homes, the island's disaster management centre said Tuesday.
[Views:230] [Tue, Jun 03, 2008] [Full Article]

Floods kills seven, displace tens of thousands
COLOMBO - Heavy monsoon rains have killed eleven people and driven 150,000 from their homes across Sri Lanka, the island's disaster management centre said Monday.
[Views:230] [Tue, Jun 03, 2008] [Full Article]

Lankan critically injured in Dhaka hotel blast
More than 50 people including three foreign nationals were injured in an explosion that occurred on Sunday at the sixth and seventh floor of Hotel Orchard Plaza in Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka.
[Views:202] [Tue, Jun 03, 2008] [Full Article]

Lankan parents arrested after children knifed to death in UK
Two children aged four and five were stabbed to death in their family home and their six-month-old baby sister is critically ill in hospital with knife wounds, police said.
[Views:339] [Mon, Jun 02, 2008] [Full Article]

Sri Lanka vulnerable to a potential HIV/AIDS epidemic
Sri Lanka is vulnerable to a potential HIV/AIDS epidemic despite the country's relatively low HIV/AIDS prevalence, according to a recent study conducted by the Centre for Policy Studies in London, Colombo's Daily Mirror reports.
[Views:202] [Sat, May 31, 2008] [Full Article]

TV journalist killed in Sri Lanka
journalist working for a private TV channel in Sri Lanka has been killed in the northern Jaffna peninsula, company officials say.
[Views:266] [Thu, May 29, 2008] [Full Article]

Muslims in Sri Lanka’s east protest abductions
COLOMBO — Tension prevailed for the third day in Sri Lanka’s east after four Muslims were abducted allegedly by members of the paramilitary-cum-political group Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) or the Tamil People’s Liberation Tigers.
[Views:200] [Tue, May 27, 2008] [Full Article]

Bomb blast kills nine, injures 72
A bomb exploded on a crowded commuter train in a southern suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 72 others, police said.
[Views:261] [Mon, May 26, 2008] [Full Article]

Sri Lanka raises fuel prices, Bangladesh plans hike
COLOMBO/DHAKA, May 25 - Sri Lanka raised fuel prices and Bangladesh said it planned a hike soon, the latest Asian nations to find they can no longer afford to shield their consumers from soaring world oil prices.
[Views:179] [Mon, May 26, 2008] [Full Article]

Rs. 21.5 m worth contraband seized in 2,886 raids
The Excise Department which declared a special detection week from May 15-21, to coincide with Vesak, has recorded an unprecedented success carrying out 2,886 successful raids and taking into custody over 3,000 suspects, in the process seizing contraband worth of over Rs. 21.5 million.
[Views:168] [Sat, May 24, 2008] [Full Article]