New York - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Executive Director, Joel Simon, said, Sri Lanka’s defense secretary’s call for the censorship of media reintroduce criminal defamation laws are alarming developments calling to ensure that members of Rajapaksa’s government to refrain from violence, intimidation and harassment against journalists and media personals in Sri Lanka.
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Colombo, Jan 28: The associate editor of a state-run Tamil language newspaper, The Thinakaran, was stabbed and injured in Sri Lanka’s capital late Monday, police said.
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The JVP is on the warpath over the government`s move to evolve a solution based on the so-called..
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The Government has launched an ambitious infrastructure programme to improve and rehabilitate the co..
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An aircraft flying Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Army Commander Sarath Fonseka to Jaffna..
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Sri Lanka is expected to name a strong team for tomorrow’s one-day match against the Prime Minister’s XI at Canberra’s Manuka Oval.
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Sri Lanka is expected to name a strong team for tomorrow’s one-day match against the Prime Minister’s XI at Canberra’s Manuka Oval.
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Heavy fighting erupted between the Sri Lanka Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam in Ma’nalaa’ru (Weli Oya) Monday noon and the clash went on till 6:00 p.m. The Tigers said the SLA abandoned the attempt to breach the LTTE Forward Defence Line in Kokkuththoduvaay and Ma’nki’ndimalai after 6-hours stiff resistance.
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Sri Lanka Army, that has suffered casualties in medium scale offensive operations in Mannaar, has stepped up minor clashes as Tigers have successfully utilized booby traps and sniper attacks to confronting large number of SLA troops engaged in offensive operations. On Monday, Six clashes were reported in Pa’ndivirichchaan and Chinna Pa’ndivirichchaan areas close to Madu […]