Pressure on UK to drop SL from Cwealth event

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday 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 and rebuilding efforts in the former conflict zones. "Diaspora ...

NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of Sri Lankan government considering removal of land and police powers from the provinces prior to the elections in the Northern Province, India today asked it not to take any step against their own commitments ...

Colombo, May 17 (PTI) Indian companies have invested nearly USD 1 billion in Sri Lanka since 2003 and this figure could rise above USD 2 billion in the next five years, Indian envoy to Colombo Ashok K Kantha has said.With investment inflows of USD ...

It has tied up long-term contracts and has undertaken reforms, just as Gujarat did a few years ago, to provide 24x7 electricity to consumers Should IndiGo fret over new rivals? Not really. Its bigger fleet, comparable aircraft technology and better ...

Uganda`s national cricket team has been invited for a tour to Sri Lanka after the east African nation put up an impressive show at the just concluded World Cricket League Division III in Bermuda. Justine Ligyalingi, the chief executive of the Uganda ...

Driving licences would be issued to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the state as part of welfare measures provided to them, the AIADMK government announced on Wednesday. The government has been extending various welfare measures to the refugees, ...

Sri Lanka ratified the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on 05th of October 1981. CEDAW articles 7 (b) states that State parties shall take over all appropriate measures to eliminate ...

Sri Lanka will probe a controversial video on the final stages of the war between the Tamil rebels and the military, an official said on Wednesday.

Even as the controversy over Laxman Sivaramakrishnan's appointment to the ICC Cricket Committee raged on, the BCCI on Monday received support from its Asian allies Sri Lanka and Pakistan who claimed allegations of the Indian Cricket Board forcing a re-vote are baseless. The furore over the appointment seemed to have created a rift in the cricket world with the Asian countries throwing their weight behind BCCI, which is apparently unhappy with all the noises being made over the former ...