04/20/2011
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Press Trust of India
Colombo, Apr 20 (PTI) Sri Lanka's main opposition party today asked the government to launch an "internal investigation" into allegations of war crimes committed by Sri Lankan forces during the LTTE war, after a UN report censured it for committing atrocities."Sri Lanka's image has been tarnished by this report.The only way to redeem ourselves as a country is to go into the allegations," United National Party (UNP) spokesman Lakshman Kiriella told reporters in Colombo."We ask the government to start an immediate internal investigation."
04/07/2011
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Press Trust of India
Colombo, Apr 6 (PTI) A new volume, with three chapters dedicated to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, will be added to the Mahavamsa -- a historical poem written in Pali language describing reigns of Sri Lankan rulers, Cultural Affairs ministry said today.
02/28/2011
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MSN India, Press Trust of India
Colombo, Feb 28 (PTI) The crucial third round of talks between the Tamil National Alliance, the main Tamil party in Sri Lanka, to find a political settlement to the grievances of the minority ethnic community has been indefinitely postponed.
09/17/2010
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Press Trust of India
COLOMBO: Already stripped off his military rank and medals, former Sri Lankan Army chief Sarath Fonseka, was on Friday held guilty of corruption charges by a second court martial, sentenced to a prison term of three years.
07/24/2010
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Press Trust of India
Chennai: Public sector Indian Bank Saturday said it expects to open its second branch at Jaffna in Sri Lanka very soon to cater to Internally Displaced Tamils.
bank, IDPs, Indian Bank, Jaffna, Tamil
07/10/2010
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Press Trust of India, Zee News
Washington: The US on Saturday said it was "deeply dismayed" at the treatment meted out to a top UN official in Sri Lanka and asked the Rajapaksa government to take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of UN personnel and premises there.
07/06/2010
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Hindustan Times, Press Trust of India
More than 500 Hindu temples in Sri Lanka were damaged during the war with LTTE and the Tamil National Alliance has demanded that these be reconstructed. Voicing the demand to renovate the temples, TNA's leader S Yogeshwaran said in the country's Parliament that many Hindu Kovils (temples) in the North
and East were damaged during the time of military operations.
06/27/2010
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Press Trust of India
COLOMBO: India's chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma arrived here today on a six-day visit to Sri Lanka during which he will meet president Mahind Rajapaksa and other top political leaders and military officials.
06/26/2010
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Press Trust of India
COLOMBO: Once a close aide of Vellupillai Prabhakarn and the arms runner of the Tamil Tigers, Kumaran Pathmanathan may be used as a state witness by Sri Lankan authorities.
06/25/2010
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Press Trust of India
Nearly three decades after the world famous Jaffna library was burnt, a Sri Lankan minister has apologised for the incident which destroyed around 97,000 books and manuscripts, including many on Tamil culture.