In a gesture of goodwill and sportsmanship, the country’s opposition chief and former Prime Minister, Ranil Wickeremsinghe, has written to Indian skipper MS Dhoni congratulating him on winning the cup and playing the game in the right spirit. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The international network of the defeated LTTE is still active looking for opportunities to revive the terror group, Sri Lankan Prime Minister D M Jayaratne has said.
Sri Lankan authorities were yet to account for several persons taken into custody at the end of the civil war in May, 2009, a leading human rights group has said.
In less than two years the crushing civil war ended, there’s been a sharp reduction in rural poverty in Sri Lanka, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Wednesday.
They would have probably preferred to sleep off the disappointment and fatigue with only a couple of days remaining for the punishing IPL schedule to begin.
They would have probably preferred to sleep off the disappointment and fatigue with only a couple of days remaining for the punishing IPL schedule to begin.
A world cup win for Sri Lanka on April 2 and even the interest generated here by the home team’s steady performance in the lead-up to the final could carry the sport beyond the boundaries of cricket. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The champagne was ready in the ice bucket and Chinese crackers were kept ready to light up the night sky over Colombo. But instead of celebrations, disappointment and dejection filled the city streets on Saturday night after India comfortably defeated the home team in Mumbai.
Heartbroken as Sri Lanka made futile efforts to prevent India from winning the cricket World Cup, a 32-year-old man reportedly died in Colombo due to cardiac arrest.
A senior web journalist was arrested today for allegedly threatening the brother of a suspect, said to be behind the arson attack which gutted a website office in January this year. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
A meeting between a delegation of Tamil Nadu fishermen and their counterparts from Sri Lanka on Tuesday ended here without making headway into resolving the festering issue of poaching in international waters. HT reports.
The first phase of a Chinese-built coal power plant at Norocholai on the western coast of Sri Lanka was inaugurated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday evening. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
Close ally Sri Lanka has come out in support of embattled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi with a government minister on Thursday staging a protest outside the UN headquarters against air strikes on Libya by coalition forces. Colombo also called for a resolution of tension through dialogue. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa today invited New Zealand Prime Minister John Key to watch the cricket World Cup semi-finals between the two nations on Tuesday, reports said in Colombo.
The ambitious Indian project to build 50,000 houses for the displaced Tamil civilians in the north seems to have been delayed.