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1 dead, thousands flee as fire at Sri Lanka arms depot triggers blasts
A major fire at one of Sri Lanka’s largest ammunition depots triggered a series of explosions, killing one soldier and injuring over 40, forcing thousands to flee as debris fell into populated areas d
07 Jun 2016 9:39 AM
1 killed, thousands flee as blasts hit Sri Lankan armoury
At least five persons have been injuries in the fire and their condition remained stable.
06 Jun 2016 12:36 PM
Lanka to gradually ban house maids abroad amid abuses, social cost
Rajitha Senaratne said human rights abuses and social costs in many families of house maids have prompted govt to take such a decision.
02 Jun 2016 2:17 PM
Nuwan Kulasekara quits Tests, to focus on ODIs and T20s
Veteran Sri Lankan seamer Nuwan Kulasekara announced his retirement from Test cricket on Wednesday but said he would continue to be available for limited-overs matches.
02 Jun 2016 6:37 AM
UK grants refugee status to Mohamed Nasheed
Britain has granted refugee status to Mohamed Nasheed, the former President of the Maldives who was jailed in 2015 after a trial that drew international criticism, his lawyer said on Monday.
24 May 2016 4:30 AM
Sri Lanka toll rises to 82 as more bodies pulled out
Rescuers pulled out more bodies from the muddy debris of disastrous landslide taking the toll to over 80 while 118 people remained missing on Sunday, in floods triggered by the heaviest rains in Sri L
22 May 2016 11:41 PM
Foreign aid gets to Colombo, toll 71
Foreign aid began arriving in Sri Lanka on Saturday, bringing help to half a million people forced out of their homes by rains and landslides that have killed at least 71 in a week of extreme weather
22 May 2016 6:50 AM
500,000 flee homes as flood misery worsens in Sri Lanka
Desperate Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to escape monster floods in the capital Colombo as officials said half a million people had fled their homes across the
21 May 2016 6:28 AM
Lanka 2006 blast was inside job: Former Army Chief
Sri Lanka’s former Army Chief told Parliament on Tuesday that a bomb blast apparently targeting former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother 10 years ago was an “inside job” to win sympathy for the th
04 May 2016 6:37 AM
Maldives strips jailed Nasheed of pension
The Maldives on Wednesday stripped jailed former President Mohamed Nasheed of his pension entitlements and health insurance, after demanding he return from medical leave in Britain.
21 Apr 2016 6:25 AM
Maldives orders Mohammed Nasheed to return
Prison leave to undergo treatment in London cancelled
20 Apr 2016 6:15 AM
US: Sri Lanka rights abuse in 2015 too
Widespread impunity continued last year in Sri Lanka for the crimes committed during the armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and following the end of the civil war, a new report r
15 Apr 2016 12:02 AM
‘LTTE can’t revive its movement’
The LTTE cannot revive its separatist movement in Sri Lanka without its leader Velupillai Prabakaran, a senior Northern Province official on Wednesday asserted, downplaying fears of re-emergence of m
07 Apr 2016 12:19 AM
Sri Lanka to grant minority Tamils more autonomy
Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Tuesday launched a process to draw up a new Constitution aimed at preventing a return to ethnic war by granting minority Tamils greater autonomy.
06 Apr 2016 7:02 AM
Bangladesh heist: 6 Sri Lankans banned from leaving
A Sri Lankan court banned foreign travel by six directors of a foundation that the police said was remitted some of the $101 million stolen in the hacking of Bangladesh Central Bank’s account at the F
24 Mar 2016 6:41 AM
Chinese company to resume work on Sri Lankan port city
The project was suspended because of questions about its environmental impact.
15 Mar 2016 6:48 PM
Lanka appoints panel to probe media harassment under Rajapaksa
Secretary under Sirisena by mid June. Media freedom in Sri Lanka was rated low when the former president was at the helm for a decade.
10 Mar 2016 5:05 PM
Sri Lanka PM seeks probe into 'missing' wartime gold
About half the 150 kilograms of gold recovered by the military during the war is still in its hands.
09 Mar 2016 5:48 PM
Sangakkara turns SL selector ahead of ICC World Twenty20
The Islanders sacked existing selection panel after national team’s ‘recent failures’.
08 Mar 2016 12:17 PM
Seven years after war, Sri Lanka bans mines
Sri Lanka’s government Thursday announced it would ban landmines and promised to destroy its stockpiles of the explosive devices, nearly seven years after its protracted civil war ended.
04 Mar 2016 3:36 AM
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