Sri Lanka News

Via ColomboPage.com: Sri Lanka Health Ministry orders H1N1 vaccine amid rising death toll .

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith will sound out his Commonwealth counterparts on ways to help stem the flow of refugees from Sri Lanka.

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived here Tuesday on a four-day visit, diplomatic officials said.

Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 12:14 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 15, Colombo: A sudden fire inside a medicine storage unit has engulfed the Ampara base hospital in Eastern Sri Lanka, police sources said.

Sri Lankan refugees are helped to board an Australian Customs Service patrol ship, to transport to an Australian-funded detention center in Tanjung Pinang, on the Indonesian Island of Bintan, Indonesia on Nov.

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes has confirmed that more than half the Tamils who were in refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka have now left them.

External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has said the government is in talks with Sri Lanka to bring back the Indian prisoners languishing in jails in that country.

Chief Minister M KarA unanidhi. CHENNAI: Observing that the decisions taken by the LTTE at crucial junctures of their struggle were done without a political vision for future, Chief Minister M KarA unanidhi on Tuesday charged that the Tigersa call for boycotting the 2005 presA idential elections in Sri Lanka had resulted in the present crisis.

The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited , signed a landmark agreement today.

Dozens of Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Wednesday left an Australian customs vessel anchored off Indonesia after they were promised they would be resettled, ending a monthlong standoff.

Tue, Nov 17, 2009, 08:33 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 17, Colombo: Two prison guards of the Anuradhapura prison in Sri Lanka have been injured in an attack carried out by a group of prisoners this morning.

These persons do not provide receipts to their relatives when they remove heads of their families, complained Mr.

But ask about Mr. Rajaratnam on the island of his birth and few will say anything about the man considered to be Sri Lanka's richest, now accused in the largest hedge-fund related insider trading case in U.S. history.

Outgoing Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka salutes as he pays tribute to fallen soldiers at the War Memorial in Colombo yesterday Sri Lanka's top general bid farewell to his uniform yesterday and said he will announce a decision on entering politics within two to three days, amid speculation he may seek the presidency.

Responding to a young journalism student this week, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd maintained that his Government's actions on the Oceanic Viking abided by the letter of the Refugee Convention.

Hailed as a hero for ending decades of civil war, Sri Lanka's most decorated general appears likely to stand for the presidency - something that analysts view with deep foreboding.

Standoff...Sri Lankan asylum seekers on board their boat in the port of Merak. They have been staging a sit-in for more than a month.

New Delhi, Nov 10 : Test batsman VVS Laxman said India was 'unlucky' to have lost the ongoing one-day series against Australia and was confident that the home team will prove its mettle against the Sri Lankans.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse today asked his supporters for more time to announce dates for snap elections as he faced an unexpected challenge from his erstwhile military chief.

The Sri Lankan government on Sunday formally accepted the resignation of General Sarath Fonseka as the chief of defence staff and asked him to retire with immediate effect, rejecting his plea to serve till December 1. The top general, who as army chief was the architect of the annihilation of the rebel Tamil Tigers in a military offensive in May, ...