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Exiled journalists will be safe in Lanka: Mohan Peiris

Transparency International — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:50 +0000

DailyMirror Lankan Attorney General ...

30 key Bills were not passed

Transparency International — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:48 +0000

DailyMirror A senior Parliamentary official yesterday claimed that the lackluster attitude on the part of both the government and opposition members of parliament had contributed to the failure to pass some 30 ...

Polls watchdog highlights clashes over Manape

Transparency International — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:47 +0000

The Island Fights between supporters of opposition political party candidates have been reported from the Kurunegala and Kalutara districts mainly due to the preferential votes in view of ...

SC wants State media to be balanced

Transparency International — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:45 +0000

DailyMirror The Supreme Court yesterday (11) directed the Rupavahini and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation to ensure a balance of coverage in the forthcoming...

Jaffna & Pooneryn get furnaces to prepare dry fish

News.lk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:51:10 +0000

People in Jaffna and Pooneryn have been provided with firewood

The crisis in secondary education

Kalpanakaranna — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:31:00 +0000

I am one who managed to get through my education without having to go to tuition classes. However today in the Sri Lankan context, it is almost a...

Hotel Trade

LBO — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:53:31 +0000

Sri Lanka Hotel Services shares traded heavily

Leaf Trends

LBO — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:35:34 +0000

Sri Lanka tea prices rise, crops fall

Canada says end state of emergency

Daily Mirror — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:49:46 +0000

Canada has urged Sri Lanka to lift the state of emergency imposed during the onslaught on the LTTE and has also urged Colombo to ease restrictions and work for reconciliation...

Non-Aligned Movement concerned over Ban Ki-Moonâ€™s move

News.lk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:26:12 +0000

The Non Aligned Movement (NAM) has expressed concerns over the move by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to appoint...

Marked decline in election violence seen

News.lk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:26:11 +0000

There is a marked decline in election violence. However, PAFFREL said that they are prepared to monitor the counting...

The largest heroin haul seized in Kalpitiya

News.lk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:26:09 +0000

The largest heroin haul has been seized. The Kalpitiya Police succeeded in seizing the haul of heroin.

Income of Polonnaruwa farmers who cultivated 150,000 acres increase

News.lk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:26:08 +0000

The purchase of paddy in the Polonnaruwa District is being successfully undertaken. The paddy is being purchased jointly by...

President believes in improvement of the quality of education

News.lk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:26:06 +0000

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has emphasized that the Government’s next target is to improve the education of children.

Under Threat

LBO — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:18:59 +0000

Sri Lanka abused human rights: US report

US State dept. Full Report: Sri Lanka Human Righst 2009

transcurrents — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:12:18 +0000

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices March 11, 2010 S ri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty republic with a population estimated at 21 million. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, elected in 2005, and the parliament, elected in 2004, both for six-year terms, share constitutional power. The government is ...

Just Management

LBO — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:06:43 +0000

Sri Lanka must curb state consumption, inflate less to raise incomes: economist

News Today – 12 March 2010

newSRILANKA Team — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:59:00 +0000

Get a quick look at what all the news papers are saying today (Headline news, breaking news, business news, opinion etc.. News from Dailymirror, Dailynews & Island. You can simply click on the links, and the relevant news article will open out in the respective news website.

Virtusa Announces Suite of Services for Transforming Organizations to Enterprise 2.0: Social Media, Video and Mobile Channels Fuel Collaboration for the Enterprise

newSRILANKA Team — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:23 +0000

11-Mar-2010 Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, has introduced the company’s new Enterprise 2.0 Services Suite from the Gartner Portals, Content and [...]

A mobile surge

newSRILANKA Team — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:22 +0000

11-Mar-2010 By Rafik JALALDEEN Cellular phone usage in Sri Lanka has shown a dramatic rise. A total of over 14 million registered SIM card holders are reported to be using mobile phones, a [...]

SLT pushes up turnover to top off at over Rs.700 mn

newSRILANKA Team — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:20 +0000

11-Mar-2010 Although Colombo bourse was flat yesterday large volumes got traded with SLT topping the most traded stocks with over 3 million shares. SLT was the highest trading stock amounting to 3,708,100 shares that got [...]

Sri Lankan Software Testing Board to host the International Software Testing Qualifications Board Certified Tester Foundation Level Examination for the first time in Sri Lanka

newSRILANKA Team — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:19 +0000

11-Mar-2010 ISTQB is the world’s only not-for-profit organization dedicated solely to provide practical, globally-accepted software testing certification in more than 45 countries. Since it has been developed by more than 100 global software testing experts, offered in [...]

US blames govt. for HR violations

Daily Mirror — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:30:57 +0000

The US has blamed the government for being involved in human rights violations last year and has stated that Sri Lanka is yet to make progress into the killings of...

Web censure ‘curbs human rights’

BBC News — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:50:22 +0000

Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US

SPREADING KIDNEY DISEASE STILL NOT IDENTIFIED

News First — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000

March 12, 2010: The cause of the rapidly spreading kidney disease in the country has not been identified as yet, says the Health Department.

INQUIRY ON FARMERS SELLING PADDY AT LOWER PRICE

News First — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000

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PROPAGANDA MATERIAL STILL ON DISPLAY: POLLS MONITORS

News First — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000

March 12, 2010: The Campaign for a Free and Fair Election (CAFFE), an election

Sri Lanka general set for trial

BBC News — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:45:39 +0000

Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka is to be put on military trial next week, officials say.

AI & HRW jointly appeal Sri Lanka Government to ‘end campaign to discredit civil society’

transcurrents — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:29 +0000

End Witch Hunt Against the Media and NGOs Full text of Joint Press Release...

Sri Lanka urged to end media, NGO witch hunt

Transparency International — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:27 +0000

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE The Sri Lankan government should end its harassment of journalists and activists and take steps against those making threats, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint statement today. Since...