Seven soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) escaped from Panagoda army camp located in Kalutara district Saturday midnight. They were deserters and were being detained in the army camp after being arrested in a search operation. Several hundred deserters are currently being detained in the Panagoda army camp.
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Twenty five Tamil civilians, including a woman, were taken into custody in two separate combined cordon and search operations conducted by the Sri Lanka Army and Sri Lanka Police Sunday morning, sources in Colombo said. Three persons, including a woman, were arrested in Maligaawatte. 22 Tamils were taken into custody in search operations conduct at Talawakelle, Nuwara Eliya, Hatton, Norwood and …
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Sri Lanka’s army says it has recaptured a key northern town near the Tamil Tigers’ stronghold of Kilinochchi.
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Dec 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s major Free Trade Zone sources say that the industries are hit with a severe dearth of labor, especially since April this year.
Dec 01, Colombo: The train fares of Sri Lanka go down from today, the Railway Department announced.
Dec 01, Colombo: The doctors of Sri Lanka’s Northern and Eastern Provinces are to take a decision today…
Dec 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka National AIDS Prevention Unit says that a cumulative total of 1,129 HIV cases has been recorded in the country by the end of September 2008. However, an estimated 4,000 HIV positive persons are living in the country currently.
A ruling Friday by Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court’s to halt payments to an international bank in connection to a badly judged oil hedging deal entered into by the state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) could harm Colombo’s ability to obtain credit from global markets, an internationally rating agency warns. The CPC had entered into a hedging deal on the assumption oil prices would not fall …
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A girl was killed and an elderly civilian was injured Monday around 11:45 a.m. when Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired artillery shells targeted Hudson Road Ira’naimadu Vaddakkachchi Road, according to initial details from Tamileelam police officials in Vanni.
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Sri Lanka: President calls for global action to fight terrorism (AKI) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa says the Mumbai terrorist attacks should remind everyone about the risk of terrorism and the need for international cooperation to stop it. Rajapaksa spoke to Adnkronos International (AKI) during an unofficial visit to the Italian capital Rome where he was to meet Pope …
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