Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 17:51
The much-awaited provincial council election in Sri Lanka`s Tamil-dominated north will be held in September as planned with President Mahinda Rajapaksa giving his go ahead on Friday.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 19:17
Sri Lanka sent President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s younger brother Basil to Delhi to hold talks with Indian leadership over its controversial plan to tinker with the India-moved thirteenth amendment (13A).
Last Updated: Saturday, June 29, 2013, 22:28
President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s Sinhala majority allies warn that undiluted powers to provinces could lead to the separation of the country and a realisation of the Tamil dream to carve out a separate homeland.
Last Updated: Monday, June 24, 2013, 20:50
The long-awaited provincial council election in Sri Lanka`s Tamil-dominated north would be held in late September, the nation`s poll Chief said on Monday.
Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 21:52
Unfazed by India`s opposition, Sri Lanka announced the names of a Parliamentary panel to discuss the issue of the thirteenth amendment (13A) to its Constitution that devolve some authority to the provinces.
Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 19:04
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa mourned the death and destruction due to massive flooding in north Indian states.
Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 14:46
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa dismissed reports that his government had flouted agreements reached in the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord.
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.
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