Sri Lanka’s peace broker Norway said here Sunday it will hold a meeting of the island’s key financial backers this week in a bid to stop the latest wave of bloodshed.
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New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) Amid a virtual war and rampant rights abuses, the international community overseeing Sri Lanka’s tattered peace process is expected to privately censure Colombo after a meeting in Oslo Tuesday.
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Minutes of a Security Coordinating Conference held at the Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence on 31 May, attended by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, proved “conclusively that the order for the eviction of Tamil civilians from the city were given directly by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa…The minutes also make the startling revelation that the Defence Secretary […]

Jaffna Peninsula Traders Society blamed the Sri Lanka Government for the artificially high price for essential goods created by measures adopted by the office of the Commissioner of Essential Services (CES) in shipping goods to Jaffna peninsula, sources close to Traders Union said. CES’s insistence on shipping essential goods by three cargo vessels precluded using […]

Thousands of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers were involved in a large scale cordon and search operation in Kurunakar in Jaffna Municipality and in the adjoining coastal areas Saturday early morning, sources in Jaffna said. This was the second such operation in the last two days.
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Baby elephant Migara, a gift of friendship from Sri Lanka to China in February this year, celebrated his sixth birthday at the Beijing Zoo Saturday.
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The Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party and the theoretician of the Vietnam revolution, Comr..
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Sri Lankan Pianist Rohan De Silva and violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman were invited by President George W Bush and Laura Bush to perform for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the State Dinner at the White House in May 2007.
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Rumesh Ratnayake has declined a lucrative offer to become Sri Lanka’s assistant coach.
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Former Sri Lanka fast bowler Rumesh Ratnayake has declined a lucrative offer to become the assistant to new national team coach Trevor Bayliss.
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