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03/08/2010
The general election offers all of us an opportunity to play our part in ensuring that the bases for good governance and economic take off are firmly laid within a solid democratic framework of effective checks and balances on the exercise of executive power. It must not be yet another exercise of going back to the future.
03/03/2010
Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has said he is extending the country's state of emergency and will reconvene the recently dissolved parliament next week to ratify the move.
02/28/2010
Apart from the popular sports and film figures, nine journalists will also contest the forthcoming General Election to secure seats in Sri Lanka’s seventh Parliament.
03/27/2010
Incumbent President Rajapakse has made it clear he favors economic growth over the well-being of his populace.
03/02/2010
A Sri Lankan Muslim woman who has been internally displaced in the north of the country for 20 years has won a top award from the US state department.
Majeed Jensila is one of 10 worldwide recipients of the state department's International Women of Courage award for 2010.
03/01/2010
Hundreds of Sri Lankan ruling party activists demonstrated outside the British High Commission in Colombo on Monday, denouncing what they called London's support for Tamil separatists abroad.
03/01/2010
The spokesman for more than 240 Sri Lankan asylum seekers locked in a long-running stand-off with the Indonesian government is on the run.
Sanjeev "Alex" Kuhendrarajah fled the asylum seekers' rickety cargo boat, which has been docked in the western Java port of Merak since October, late last week.
02/28/2010
The Sri Lankan Government is to amend the Act which deals with Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) with the objective to enable the concerned agencies to probe their activities and take appropriate action against them, Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka told the Daily Mirror online.
02/25/2010
The diplomatic rift between London and Colombo has widened after Gordon Brown and David Miliband met delegates from a new worldwide Tamil union despite "strong protests" from the Sri Lankan government.
Miliband, the foreign secretary, used his address to the inaugural conference of the Global Tamil Forum at the Commons yesterday to urge the Sri Lankan government to embark on a "genuinely inclusive political process".
02/26/2010
The government has accused one of the suspects of being involved in the assassination of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramathunga last year...
In a joint statement to the magistrate on Friday, all six suspects rejected the accusations against them and denied being involved in any crime.