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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Sri Lanka has been blocked from hosting the next meeting of Commonwealth leaders in protest at Colombo's military repression against the Tamil population earlier this year. Australia will instead host the next biennial Commonwealth heads of government meeting in 2011 after Canberra and London joined forces to block the Sri Lankan bid. The decision, made at the summit in Trinidad and Tobago over the...
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Nov 29, Colombo: Senior geologist Dr Wilbert Kehelpannala warned people in Kandy, Matale, Nuwara Eliya and Badulla of risk of possible landslides due to the present inter monsoon rains and the North East monsoon rains expected in late December.
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake has invited four international observers for monitoring missions of next presidential election scheduled on 26 January 2010.
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Sify (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
COLOMBO: Frustrated with his failure to provide Sri Lanka the breakthroughs in the ongoing Test series against India, ace off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan says he is no longer the dreaded bowler he
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Former Sri Lanka Army Commander General (retd) Sarath Fonseka, the common opposition candidate for the Sri Lankan presidential election, which is scheduled to be held on January 26 is to contest on the symbol swan and on the ticket of a newly registered political party. He held the first press briefing Sunday morning at Jaica Hotel in Colombo.
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Nov 29, Colombo: Australia has been selected as the venue to host the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in 2011 Australian reports said.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Sri Lanka Police sources said all operations launched against underworld criminals have been suspended on the orders from superiors. With the end of the war against the LTTE the police launched an operation to eradicate underworld criminals. Over one hundred under world criminals were killed in the campaign. But some of them, including notorious criminal Kudu Lal, who has the backing of powerful politicians...
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Nov 29, Colombo: Remaining Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the welfare villages of North will be free to move from their centers from Tuesday...
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said now it is clear to everyone that General Sarath Fonseka had been plotted against the government for a long time, while he was secretly engaged in politics before he retired from the Army.
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka's former top ranking Army leader and Presidential hopeful General Sarath Fonseka said he wants to eliminate corruption and restore democracy in the country if he was elected.
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka has appointed a four-member team to investigate crash of the Air Force MI-24 helicopter gunship on last Friday afternoon that killed all the four occupants on board.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
A group of supporters said to be from the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Saturday morning attacked a group of activists of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) when the latter were putting up posters in connection with the rally supporting the opposition common presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka in Maradana in Colombo, according to a press release by the JVP.
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