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The proposed constitutional reforms will be debated and voted on in Parliament on September 08, said chief government whip Dinesh Gunawardena. He said the draft would be tabled in the ... (0)
Tamil youth who have come from the North for the 'Sithamu' program and Sinhala youth of the Sawithree foundation will meet at two-day cultural exchange program which will commence today (Sep. 03)... (0)
Colombo Additional magistrate Sujeewa Nishshanka today (Sep. 03) ordered a businessman to remand custody until Sep. 13 for a financial fraud amounting to over Rs. 1130 m. The suspect, ...(0)
Sep 3, 2010 3:53 PM · The government affiliated leftist parties are to take a final decision on the constitutional amendment reforms after meeting again on Sep. 06, secretary of the democratic leftist front, MP Wasude... (0)
Sep 3, 2010 3:52 PM · The Dehiwala zoo acquired a record income of Rs. 29,615,000 during August 2010, reports say. Reports add that there have been 2,275,407 visitors in the past month. On August... (0)
Sep 3, 2010 2:18 PM · Sri Lankan housemaid L.P. Ariyawathie, who had allegedly been tortured during employment in Saudi Arabia, left a Matara hospital yesterday (Sept. 02) after treatment. Doctors at the go... (0)
Sep 3, 2010 1:59 PM · Permanent military camps will be established in strategically important areas to safeguard the country's peace and national security, Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said. Spea... (0)
Sep 3, 2010 12:54 PM · Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is now in Chennai, Tamil Nadu for talks with politicians in the South Indian state. He departed for India yesterday afternoon (Sept. 02), just ho... (0)
Sep 3, 2010 12:54 PM · Sri Lankan leaders have assured New Delhi that the Army would return the land of the displaced Tamils of Indian origin in Vavuniya. India's foreign secretary Nirupama Rao, who conclude... (0)
Sep 3, 2010 10:09 AM · The JVP affiliate National Trade Union Centre yesterday (Sept. 02) resumed talks with other trade unions on their demand for a Rs. 8,000 salary increase for public, private and estate sector empl... (0)
Sep 2, 2010 11:42 PM · The SLFP has formed the strongest government in the whole of Asia, said president Mahinda Rajapaksa at the party's 59th anniversary celebration today (Sept. 02). Mr. Rajapaksa said tha... (0)
Sep 2, 2010 11:41 PM · The JVP today (Sept. 02) launched a two million leaflet distribution against draft constitutional reforms and vowed to defeat the anti-democratic and authoritarian regime through the power of the... (0)
Sport
The International Cricket Council has suspended Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, the three players implicated in the Lord's spot-fixing scandal, under the provisions of the Anti-Corr... (0)
Sep 2, 2010 11:39 PM · Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, the three players at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy, will play no part in the limited-overs leg of the England tour, after extensive talks...(0)
Aug 31, 2010 10:17 PM · Customs investigators have made three more arrests in connection with the Pakistan spot-fixing investigation, Cricinfo has confirmed. (0)
Aug 31, 2010 4:30 PM · The last surviving player from the first World Cup final, Francisco Varallo, has died in Argentina at the age of 100. R...(0)
Business
Consumers are seriously inconvenienced after prices of imported potatoes and B onions have risen sharply due to newly imposed taxes, reports say. As a result of the new taxes, a wholes... (0)
Aug 31, 2010 3:17 PM · A concession to build and operate a 450 million US dollar container terminal in an expanded port in Colombo port has been awarded to Sri Lanka's Aitken Spence and China Merchants Holdings, an off...(0)
Aug 26, 2010 4:29 PM · Sri Lanka's listed shipbuilder Colombo Dockyard has appointed to its board of directors a nominee of the Employees' Provident Fund, a pension fund managed by the central bank, a stock exchange fi...(0)
Aug 25, 2010 2:35 PM · A World Bank study has called on Sri Lanka to loosen controls on land ownership and use, saying restrictions tend to keep poor farmers poor. (0)
World
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have held their first direct negotiations in nearly two years, in Washington. Read more on ... (0)
Sep 2, 2010 11:38 PM · The Israeli and Palestinian leaders have begun their first direct talks in nearly two years with a pledge of "full and active support" from the US. (0)
Sep 2, 2010 10:29 AM · A gunman who took three hostages at the Discovery Communications headquarters in the US has been shot dead by police and his captives have been set free. (0)
Sep 1, 2010 5:47 PM · Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has called his successor Gordon Brown "maddening", as he outlined tensions between them in his memoirs. (0)
Art
Senior film director Dr. D.B Nihalsinghe assumed duty as the consultant (cinema and television) to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information today (Sept. 01). Mass Media and Informati... (0)
Aug 31, 2010 3:16 PM · Box office receipts in the US rose by $100m (£64.9m) this summer, despite the lowest attendance in five years, figures have shown. (0)
Aug 30, 2010 6:15 PM · The hit US series Mad Men was among the big winners at this year's Emmy awards, taking the title for best drama series. (0)
Aug 29, 2010 8:29 PM · American socialite Paris Hilton has been arrested in the US for alleged possession of cocaine, police say. ...(0)
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