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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...
Sehwag added nine runs to his overnight score of 284 Thursday before offering a return catch to offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan. Sehwag's two triple centuries were made against Pakistan at Multan in 2004 and South Africa at Chennai in 2008.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka said it completed the return of Tamil civilians displaced in the war with Tamil Tiger rebels to the northern Jaffna district as part of plans to settle almost 122,000 people in camps by the end of January.
Nearly 60,000 people were left homeless in Sri Lanka Thursday following flash floods in the capital Colombo and the suburbs, an official said.
India made a blistering reply to Sri Lanka's 393 in the third and final cricket Test, racing to 92-0 in 18 overs by lunch on the second day here on Thursday.
India continued to torment Sri Lanka in the final Test on Friday after Virender Sehwag missed a world record third triple-century by seven runs.
The Sri Lankan general who oversaw the end of 25 years of war said on Sunday he will run for president, pitting himself against the man who also takes credit for the victory against Tamil Tiger rebels.
Tillakaratne Dilshan scored his sixth Test century of a remarkable year to give Sri Lanka a fine start to the third match of their series against India in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Virender Sehwag missed a world record third triple-century by seven runs as Sri Lanka hit back on the third morning of the final Test against India here on Friday.
India's Virender Sehwag fell seven runs short of a record breaking third test triple century in the final match of the series against Sri Lanka on Friday.
India thumped Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs on the fourth day of the second cricket Test here on Friday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Port-of-Spain/Washington - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday vowed to block Sri Lanka's bid to host the next Commonwealth meetings, citing its alleged human rights abuses in suppressing the Tamil rebellion. Brown signalled his opposition t...
Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians locked in state-run camps during the island's ethnic conflict walked free Tuesday, officials said, ending mass detentions that were criticised by the UN.
(RTTNews) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Tuesday said that he would seek a mandate on the issue of lasting peace and development in the Island nation after his government succeeded in uprooting terrorism that had been an obstacle to country' progress.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s economic growth accelerated last quarter as the end of the island’s 26-year civil war boosted agriculture and tourism, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said.
India's Virender Sehwag said he knew a big score was within his grasp in the series after thumping an unbeaten 284 in the final test against Sri Lanka on Thursday.
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