The personal driver of slain LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran has surrendered to the Trincomalee police. The driver who was a former LTTE cadre had reportedly fled the Tigers during...

The second Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo ends in an inevitable draw to leave the hosts 1-0 up going into the final match of the series.

Sri Lanka and India drew the high-scoring second test at Sinhalese Sports Club on the last day Friday. Sri Lanka leads 1-0 going into the final test starting on Tuesday at Colombo. Sri Lanka 642-4 declared (Kumar Sangakkara 219, Mahela Jayawardene 174, Tharanga Paranavitana 100, Thilan Samaraweera 76 not out, Tillakaratne Dilshan 54) and 129-3 declared (Sangakkara 42 not out), drew with India ...

(Lanka-e-News, July 31, 2010, 2.00 PM) A post-LTTE look at the fallout of the 1987 agreement that led to India's direct involvement in the counter-insurgency operation in Sri Lanka. It is 23 years since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement was signed on July 29, 1987...

July 31, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court has ordered a probe into the report from the Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) that internal organs of a midwife who died under mysterious circumstances in North have gone missing.

56 girls and boys, studying at Pappamotai Maha Vidyalaya, Mannar along with 17 parents and 5 teachers were taken on a picnic for the first time in the school's history, following an initiative taken by 212 Brigade under Security Forces Headquarters, Wanni.

In order of arrival at 10 Downing Street

A whistleblower website wikileaks has published what it says are more than 90,000 of secret American military files about the war in Afghanistan which include details of 144 incidents in which Coalition forces have killed civilians. The White House has attacked online whistleblowing site Wikileaks after it published some 200,000 pages of secret American military files [...]

An astrologer, popular in the midst of Colombo high-society, passed away in Chennai, this morning.

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