08/17/2010
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BBC
The man who oversaw Sri Lanka's defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels has said he believes more than 6,000 of them were killed in the final stages of fighting.
08/13/2010
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Asia Times
BANGALORE - The first phase of Sri Lanka's Hambantota project, a showpiece of the country's significant and growing cooperation with China, is almost complete. Filling the harbor basin with water for the port on the southern tip of the island begins on August 15 and the first ship is expected to dock at the port by November.
08/11/2010
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BBC Sinhala
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to sack deputy minster of highways, Dr. Mervyn Silva, the presidential secretariat confirmed.
08/10/2010
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Agence France-Presse
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's president Tuesday sacked a maverick minister who had tied a state official to a tree as punishment for failing to control the spread of dengue fever in the country, an official said.
07/31/2010
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ColomboPage
July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to meet Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe for extensive talks. The discussion will be held in the President's official residence Temple Trees on Tuesday, August 03.
07/27/2010
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GoSL
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that scientific research can be considered as national wealth. When a country is developing the quantity of the researches must also rise in every aspect, he said.
07/27/2010
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GoSL
President Mahinda Rajapaksa says Sri Lankan scientists had not been engaged in scientific researches during the past period since their knowledge was not properly used in scientific activities.
07/27/2010
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GoSL
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday emphasized that changes to the Constitution would be drafted taking into consideration the needs of the public of Sri Lanka and not individual interests.
07/23/2010
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BBC
Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has launched one of her most outspoken attacks against the government.
She accused it of "completely forgetting the legacy" of her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman prime minister.
She said it was also wrong to ignore her accession to power 60 years ago.
07/22/2010
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Xinhua
Thousands of people protested in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Wednesday demanding the release of former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka who is currently in military custody over allegedly violating the military law while in uniform.