Jul 20 2008
SRI LANKA-Sri Lanka army has declared Sri Lanka armytown liberated for the first time after 21 years this afternoon (July 20). According to defence sources troops of Task Force 1 , Commando brigade and Army 57 division encircled the remote town situated...
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Jul 16 2008
Sri Lanka has been rescuing orphaned baby elephants for more than 35 years with state help, and the transit home is part of a drive to save the island’s endangered elephant species.
Jul 16 2008
At least 30 terrorists were reported killed Tuesday (July 15) evening, at the embattled western coastal LTTE foothold in Vidattaltivu, Mannar as elite Commando troops mounted heavy artillery and multi-barrel rocket (MBRL) fire after detecting a large...
Jul 15 2008
Eviction orders issued by the Defence Ministry on 1500 families in 800 homes of Glany Passage in Slave Island, the heart of Colombo city, has sent shock waves among the city residents and has drawn heavy criticism from human rights activists, Municipal...
Jul 15 2008
SRI LANKA-A male LTTE suicide cadre, who was trying to commit suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill, is being treated at the Intensive Care Unit of the National hospital Colombo. The suspected LTTE suicide cadre had consumed cyanide at the time he was...
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Jul 15 2008
SRI LANKA-In preparation for the upcoming 15th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit to be held in Colombo, Ministry of Defence has announced that some parts of the Colombo city as high security zones preventing any civilian...
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Jul 15 2008
The environment of war and hostilities is drastically reducing the school and education activities in Mullaitivu and Kilincochchi districts, reports premier Colombo Tamil daily Virakesari. The newspaper quotes the education officers in the region,...
Jul 14 2008
July 13, Colombo: Twenty baby anacondas were born at the Dehiwela Zoological Garden in Sri Lanka on Friday, reporting the first such case from Sri Lanka, an official said. A spokesman for the Zoo said that those babies are under constant observation...
Jul 13 2008
SRI LANKA -Sri Lanka has asked mobile phone users to carry a certificate of ownership of the cellphone and barred them from using phones belonging to others. The Sri Lanka Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) has taken this step “to avert...
Jul 11 2008
The bus that was fired at, at Galge while it was travelling along the Buttala - Kataragama road this morning took the lives of 4 while injuring another 26.-dailymirror
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