COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s military said yesterday troops had killed 35 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes in the island’s north in 24 hours as the death toll from renewed civil war climbs inexorably higher.
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Colombo, Dec 29 (IANS) Sri Lanka was officially represented at the funeral of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto at Ghari Khuda Buksh in Sind Friday.
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Increasing number of technical problems that have plagued air crafts belonging to the local air lines that fly between Jaffna and Colombo, has raised concern among Jaffna travellers about the safety of their flights, sources in Jaffna said. Jaffna residents and few foreigners patronizing Expo Air and Aero Lanka have expressed fears of ageing unsafe […]

New Delhi, Dec 28 - India has told a group of Tamil politicians from Sri Lanka that it hopes Colombo..
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A U.K-based Rights Group, Tamil Information Center (TIC), in a report released this week expressed serious concern “over the plight of human rights defenders in Sri Lanka, who are facing persecution and threats to life from [Sri Lanka] government authorities,” and said the situation requires “urgent intervention by the International Community.” The report urged the […]

Dec 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that it is not the policy of the present government to privatize any government assets including state banks.
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Dec 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka military said today that troops had killed 29 LTTE Tigers during separate confrontations within the past 24 hours in the north while the Air Force this noon pounded a LTTE gathering place in the Kilinochchi area.
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Dec 28, Colombo: Minister of Trade, Marketing Development, Co-operatives and Consumer Services, Bandula Gunawardena says the government has granted permission to import wheat flour, rice, cement and milk powder from January 2008.
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Colombo - The representative of the UN Secretary General on the human rights of internally displaced people (IDP) and refugees, Mr. Walter Kalin who was in Sri Lanka for short visit few weeks back said, people who have been internally displaced (IDP) are living with worse fears and uncertainties in the IDP camps in Sri […]

The Colombo Chief Magistrate Friday released sixty Tamil civilians detained at Boosa detention camp in the south of the island following a report by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police that there was no evidence against them to charge for any crime connected with terrorist activities, legal sources in Colombo said.
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