Sri Lanka Cricket chief executive Duleep Mendis, has agreed to try and postpone or reschedule next year’s England tour to allow its players to take part in the lucrative Indian Premier League.
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Scattered fighting across Sri Lanka’s embattled north and an attack on a passenger bus in the south killed 17 Tamil Tiger rebels and four civilians, the military said Saturday.
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July 11, Colombo: National Development Bank PLC (NDB) has increased its stake in the Capital Development and Investment Company PLC (CDIC).
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July 11, Colombo: Silvermere Hospitals has signed an agreement with Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment (BOI) to establish a state of the art medical centre.
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The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Friday decided to take up for inquiry the election petition filed by three voters of the Batticaloa district seeking the court to declare null and void the results of the East Provincial Council (EPC) election held on May 10, legal sources in Colombo said. The Court directed the registrar […]

Sri Lanka Police arrested thirty civilians including ten Tamils into custody during a cordon and search operation conducted from Thursday night till Friday morning the Katunayake High Security Zone (HSZ), sources in Colombo said. The Katunayake international airport, and military installations are located within the HSZ.
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Suspected rebel gunmen ambushed a crowded passenger bus as it traveled down a small rural road in southern Sri Lanka, killing a 9-year-old boy and three women.
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July 11, Colombo: The bourse is undergoing a recovery session after it had consecutive falls in the beginning of July. Indices held position on the negative territory in the first two days but the ignition provided on Wednesday drove the scales up. WoW All Share Price Index (ASPI) climbed 20.88 points (0.87%) to end at […]

July 11, Colombo: Sri Lankan troops advancing ahead of the battlefronts in counter terrorist offensives captured two more LTTE strongholds in Vavuniya this afternoon, the military said.
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July 11, Colombo: The global human rights watch dog Amnesty International (AI) today condemned the suspected Tamil Tiger attack on civilian bus passengers in Southern Sri Lanka.
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