Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 14:28
A mass grave of over 150 skeletal remains was discovered in the central town of Matale in November last year.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 21:54
The Sri Lankan Parliament approved without a vote, a key voter registration bill which will allow some 20,000 people to vote in the upcoming provincial council elections.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013, 18:11
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has vowed to conduct provincial elections in war-torn north in September as he toured LTTE strongholds, promising to restore everything destroyed in long war.
Last Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013, 01:04
Sri Lankan Army has effected a change in its top ranks, defence ministry said on Friday.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 21:00
Due to tension between Buddhists and Muslims in Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said island`s majority community had never indulged in extremism and that it was time to forge communal harmony.
Last Updated: Friday, May 31, 2013, 17:31
Firming up its ties with Sri Lanka, China has granted fresh development loan worth USD 2.2 billion for infrastructure projects and agreed to provide defence technology as well as training to the island nation`s Army.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 23:34
China on Tuesday agreed to fund the construction of Sri Lanka`s new Colombo-Jaffna expressway as it signed several bilateral agreements with the island nation during the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 16:19
Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Tamil Tigers, Human Rights Watch said.
Last Updated: Sunday, May 19, 2013, 09:28
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday renewed his pledge to fight all "external elements" seeking to "disrupt" the country`s peace.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013, 14:27
SL President Mahinda Rajapaksa said the Tamil minority now wants to live peacefully in one country and slammed the Tamil diaspora for the lack of support in his reconciliation.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 21:44
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has congratulated Pakistan`s PML-N party chief Nawaz Sharif on his election victory.
Last Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 16:33
British student raped at a hotel in Sri Lanka in 2011 has spoken for the first time of the attack that also killed her British boyfriend, media reported on Sunday.
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