The chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket, Jayantha Dharmadasa, has been granted 100 000 rupees (US$910) bail by the commercial court of Colombo, after an alleged role in . manipulating share prices.
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Protest by the Jaffna Transport Board workers in Kondavil bus depot against the abduction of one of the workers in the Jaffna Islet of Vealanai was terminated Saturday noon following threats by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) to the administrative officials in the depot Saturday, Transport union officials said.
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Sri Lanka’s military says two days of jungle battles against Tamil Tiger rebels in the Batticaloa area have left dead 30 rebels. Troops had also captured four rebel camps. There’s been no rebel comment on casualty figures.
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Two Tamil youths, natives of Thenmaraadchchi division in Jaffna district now being detained in Welikada prison under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) since their arrest on June 27 last year, filed fundamental rights applications in the Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Thursday begging the court to declare that their fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 9 (UPI) — Sri Lankan soldiers killed 30 Tamil Tiger rebels as the country continued to slide back toward civil war, it was reported Saturday.
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Human Rights commission (HRC) Jaffna sent an urgent appeal Friday, to Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (SLRC) head office in Colombo, soliciting action to stop Jaffna peninsula Tamils being expelled from Colombo by the police, sources close to Jaffna HRC said. The peninsula residents who are in Colombo had secured Sri Lanka Army (SLA) permission […]

Yasushi Akashi, Japan’s Representative for Peace Building, Rehabilitation and Development in Sri Lanka said in Colombo on Saturday, that human rights violations by the Sri Lankan government would not prevent Japan from continuing to give humanitarian and development aid to the people of Sri Lanka.
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_ Japan will continue assistance to Sri Lanka without interruption despite snags in the search for peace and concerns about human rights in the country, Japan’s special peace envoy Yasushi Akashi said Saturday.
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Japan’s special peace envoy to Sri Lanka Yasushi Akashi, seen here, ended a four-day visit Saturday saying he was still hopeful that the island’s tattered peace process could be salvaged.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s military said on Saturday troops killed 30 rebels in a fierce jungle battle in the island’s restive east and that three insurgents committed suicide with cyanide capsules to avoid capture.
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