LTTE terrorists triggered a claymore mine explosion targeting a tractor distributing meals to security forces personnel at Salammbakulama along the Vavuniya -Mannar road, today(06) at 01.35p.m.
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June 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka Presidential Commission appointed to investigate and inquire into alleged serious violations of human rights has commenced a victims and witnesses assistance and protection programme.
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June 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket CEO Dulip Mendis said to media that 4,000 English tourists have already confirmed their visit to Sri Lanka to watch the one day and test series between England team and the home squad.
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The sit-in-protest launched by Vanni Teachers in front of Jaffna Education Office and the Additional Provincial Director’s office Tuesday continued Wednesday, blocking routine work at the two offices. Attempts by members of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and officials from Northern Provincial Sabai to dissuade the agitators failed to produce any positive results, sources in […]

June 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources opened a hotline for the public to report the environmental problems including matters related to wild elephants, illegal sand mining, illegal timber felling etc..
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June 06, Colombo: Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), which is under heavy criticism for its inefficiency, corruption and malpractices, is severely short staffed in the Treasurer’s Department, the section responsible for conducting the internal audits of the CMC.
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June 06, Colombo: Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) which is already in Sri Lanka’s lubricant market with Servo brand is constructing a new lubricant factory in Trincomalee, port city of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.
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June 06, Colombo: Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka will be able to register the companies online, after the digitalization process of the registration of companies will be completed, a spokesperson of the Department of the Registration of Companies said.
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June 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka government has launched a three-year program to facilitate all public buildings with easy access for handicapped individuals, a spokesman of the Ministry of Social Services and Social Welfare said.
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Just passed by a high ranking police officer close to Town Hall - I expected that they were carrying out major search operation. But I was surprised to see that he was going through the meagre belongings of a beggar!
No doubt the search was for claymore mines and improvised explosive devices - it is devastating […]