Fitch Ratings has today affirmed Sri Lanka Telecom PLC’s (SLT) Long-term foreign currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘B+’, which is constrained by the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri L
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Nuwan Kulasekara picked up three wickets in 12 balls as Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 19 runs in their fifth and final one-day international yesterday.
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“Three bombs exploded first time. Second time, when the bomber returned after 5 minutes from the opposite direction, there were 3 more blasts. But, the third time, bombs exploded with a parachute effect, like an auto explosion,”  said the head of the camp of the Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) that came under indiscriminate attack by […]

COLOMBO - Five Media organisations in Sri Lanka has condemned the censorship imposed by Sri Lanka authorities on BBC Sinhala and Tamil programmes aired on the State-run Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) on 27 November.
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Nov 30, Rome: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Rome, Italy today for a one day visit on his way to Ankara, Turkey.
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Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lankan government will send another food convoy to the civilians in the un-cleared areas of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, Essential Services Commissioner S.B. Divaratne said.
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Contrasting  the relatively slow changing and stable U.S. foreign policy to Pandora’s Box of unpredictable possibilities of India’s foreign policy towards Sri Lanka, Prof David in an op-ed column in Sri Lanka’s weekly Lakbima, asserts that “if  TN [Tamil Nadu] boils over not all the protestations of sovereign rights by the Sinhala state will count […]

Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lankan ground troops supported by air assaults on LTTE targets continued their advances ahead of the northern fronts amid heavy resistance from the Tigers, the military said.
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Sri Lanka rounded out a 5-0 series victory in Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club on Sunday, winning by just 19 runs after struggling to 152 all out having been put into bat. Zimbabwe, whose spinners had
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Nov 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army is to have a court martial against a Major General for the first time in its history, Army sources say.
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