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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...
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.
Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians who have been held in state-run camps since the end of the country's separatist conflict in May were released on Tuesday, an official said.
Sri Lanka’s government said Tuesday that the tens of thousands of Tamils released from closed camps would be required to register with local authorities so that their movements could be monitored.
Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 393 (Tillakaratne Dilshan 109, Angelo Mathews 99, Tharanga Paranavitana 53; Harbhajan Singh 4-112, Pragyan Ojha 3-101). India 1st Innings: 629-7 (Virender Sehwag 293, Murali Vijay 87, Rahul Dravid 74, V.V.S. Laxman 62, Sachin Tendulkar 53, Muttiah Muralitharan 3-181).
Colombo, Nov 27 (PTI) A total of 21 LTTE activists, including the head of the outfit's wing in France, have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from six months to seven years by a Paris court after they were found guilty of extorting money from Tamils there to finance the Tigers' war in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 393 (Tillakaratne Dilshan 109, Angelo Mathews 99, Tharanga Paranavitana 53; Harbhajan Singh 4-112, Pragyan Ojha 3-101). India 1st Innings: 536-3 (Virender Sehwag 293, Murali Vijay 87, Rahul Dravid 74).
The Sri Lankan general who led troops to victory over Tamil separatists after decades of war formally announced on Sunday that he would try to unseat the president in January elections.
Paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth grabbed three quick wickets as India reduced Sri Lanka to 138-5 at lunch on the third day of the second Test here on Thursday.
Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed his sixth century this year to give Sri Lanka a solid start in the crucial third and final Test against India here on Wednesday.
New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) Chief selector K Srikkanth today described Virender Sehwag's blistering unbeaten 284 in the third and final cricket Test against Sri Lanka as "simply out of the world knock" and said the flamboyant opener reminded him of West Indian batting great Vivian Richards.
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