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Colombo – Thousands of people have started leaving refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka, six months after the civil war with the Tamil rebels ended, but remain stranded without any means of getting home, aid workers in the area said Wednesday. Since t...
Fitch Ratings-Mumbai/Colombo-03 December 2009: Fitch Ratings Lanka has today affirmed Central Finance Company PLC's (CF) National Long-term rating at 'A+ ( lka)'. The Outlook is Stable.
COLOMBO (AFP)--Sri Lanka's electoral office said Friday that presidential elections would be held Jan. 26, with President Mahinda Rajapakse expected to face his former military chief Sarath Fonseka.
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Colombo - Four Air Force personnel were killed Friday when a Russian-built Mi-24 Air Force helicopter crashed in south-eastern Sri Lanka, an Air Force spokesman said. The accident occurred in Badalkumbura, 310 kilometres south-east of Colombo after a...
The former chief of Sri Lanka’s army announced that he would seek to replace his onetime ally, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in January elections.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s Colombo Stock Exchange is planning its first exchange-traded fund and to increase stock listings as investor interest grows in Asia’s best-performing market following the end of the country’s 26-year civil war.
December 4, 2009: The 26 year civil war in Sri Lanka ended earlier this year. Once the fighting stopped, more accurate information emerged on the casualties. The violence, and casualties, were greatest during the last three years of the conflict.
Growth in Sri Lanka’s economy is well below where it was last year -- down from 6% in 2008 to a projected 3.5% for 2009 -- but economic optimism and confidence in national institutions is rising. Likely driving this positivity is Sri Lankans’ expectation that things will improve now that the war is over.
India's Virender Sehwag fell just short of becoming the first ever batsman to score three test triple centuries when he was dismissed for 293 on day three of the third and final test match against Sri Lanka Sehwag added nine runs to his overnight score of 284 Thursday before offering a return catch to offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan.
COLOMBO, Nov 23 (IRIN) - The release of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Sri Lanka's north is welcome, but the government must now ensure they are properly cared for, the UN and NGOs say.
Sri Lanka was 11-0 in its second innings at stumps Friday on the third day of the third cricket test against India at Brabourne Stadium after India recorded its highest ever innings score: Scores: Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 393 (Tillakaratne Dilshan 109, Angelo Mathews 99, Tharanga Paranavitana 53; Harbhajan Singh 4-112, Pragyan Ojha 3-101); Sri Lanka 2nd Innings: 11-0 ( Tharanga Paranavitana 8 not...
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- Scoreboard Friday at stumps on the third day of the third test match between India and Sri Lanka at Brabourne Stadium: Sri Lanka, 1st Innings: 393 India, 1st Innings (Overnight 443-1) Murali Vijay lbw b Herath 87 Virender Sehwag c and b Muralitharan 293 Rahul Dravid c Prasanna Jayawardene b Welegedara 74 Sachin Tendulkar b Kulasekara 53 V.V.S. Laxman c Kulasekara b ...
Scoreboard at the close of the third day of the third and final test between India and Sri Lanka at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, India, on Friday.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka announced Saturday it will release 130,000 war-displaced Tamils living in a heavily guarded camp near Vavuniya since May.
Sri Lanka were 11 without loss in their second innings at the close of the third day of the third and final test against India on Friday.
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