Sri Lanka name squads for Pakistan serieshttp://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-name-squads-pakistan-series-161407388.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAWT7_wgt.http://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-name-squads-pakistan-series-161407388.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAWT7_wgt.Thu, 24 May 2012 09:14:07 -0700
Sri Lanka on Thursday announced separate Twenty20 and one-day squads for the home series against Pakistan starting next month.
Sri Lanka sets up new courts to try war suspectshttp://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-sets-courts-try-war-suspects-074842802.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAWj7_wgt.http://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-sets-courts-try-war-suspects-074842802.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAWj7_wgt.Thu, 24 May 2012 00:48:42 -0700
Sri Lanka is setting up new courts to accelerate cases against hundreds of Tamil rebel suspects three years after the end of the island's bloody ethnic war, a government spokesman said Thursday.
Prominent rival of Sri Lanka president walks freehttp://news.yahoo.com/prominent-rival-sri-lanka-president-walks-free-121025848.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXD7_wgt.http://news.yahoo.com/prominent-rival-sri-lanka-president-walks-free-121025848.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXD7_wgt.Mon, 21 May 2012 05:10:25 -0700
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's former army chief walked free from jail on Monday with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who appears to have bowed to growing international demands that he release his highest-profile rival. Ex-General Sarath Fonseka kissed his hands and raised them to a group of 2,000 supporters who cheered "Victory to our war hero! Victory to our leader!" and lit ...
Former Sri Lanka army chief freed from prisonhttp://news.yahoo.com/former-sri-lanka-army-chief-freed-prison-135912280.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXT7_wgt.http://news.yahoo.com/former-sri-lanka-army-chief-freed-prison-135912280.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXT7_wgt.Mon, 21 May 2012 17:31:15 -0700
Sri Lanka's former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters.
Elephant tusks seized in Sri Lanka came from Kenyahttp://news.yahoo.com/elephant-tusks-seized-sri-lanka-came-kenya-143642339.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXj7_wgt.http://news.yahoo.com/elephant-tusks-seized-sri-lanka-came-kenya-143642339.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXj7_wgt.Thu, 24 May 2012 07:36:42 -0700
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A shipping container filled with hundreds of elephant tusks seized in Sri Lanka this week came from the Kenyan port of Mombasa, Kenyan wildlife authorities said on Thursday. The 359 tusks, weighing 1.6 tonnes, had been declared as scrap plastic but were impounded in Colombo on Tuesday while en route to Dubai after scans revealed the container's true contents. Poaching in ...
Sri Lanka: 1972 constitution reminds Tamils not to backtrack idea of nationhoodhttp://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXz7_wgt./SIG=12d4ap488/EXP=1337911493/**http%3a//www.tamilnet.com/art.html%3fcatid=79%26artid=35212http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAXz7_wgt./SIG=12d4ap488/EXP=1337911493/**http%3a//www.tamilnet.com/art.html%3fcatid=79%26artid=35212Wed, 23 May 2012 12:41:43 -0700
The 1972 republican constitution of Sri Lanka, which for the first time constitutionalised a unitary Sinhala-Buddhist state, was enacted without the participation or mandate of Eezham Tamils. Not only their political opposition was brushed aside but even the judiciary also played a game against legal challenges. The constitution forced the shift in Tamil polity from federal to the idea of right ...
Cricket: Sri Lanka name squads for Pakistan serieshttp://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAYD7_wgt./SIG=1394v7c78/EXP=1337911493/**http%3a//in.news.yahoo.com/cricket-sri-lanka-name-squads-pakistan-series-123017229.htmlhttp://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAYD7_wgt./SIG=1394v7c78/EXP=1337911493/**http%3a//in.news.yahoo.com/cricket-sri-lanka-name-squads-pakistan-series-123017229.htmlThu, 24 May 2012 05:30:17 -0700
COLOMBO, May 24, 2012 (AFP) - Sri Lanka on Thursday announced separate Twenty20 and one-day squads for the home series against Pakistan starting next month.
Sri Lanka set to release jailed ex-army chiefhttp://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-set-release-jailed-ex-army-chief-061509168.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAYT7_wgt.http://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-set-release-jailed-ex-army-chief-061509168.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAYT7_wgt.Sat, 19 May 2012 23:23:39 -0700
Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief, a man credited with ending the country's long civil war but who later was imprisoned after challenging the president in elections.
Sri Lanka's ex-army chief freed from jailhttp://news.yahoo.com/sri-lankas-ex-army-chief-set-released-jail-063021675.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAYj7_wgt.http://news.yahoo.com/sri-lankas-ex-army-chief-set-released-jail-063021675.html;_ylt=A2KLOzFFeL5PkWcAYj7_wgt.Mon, 21 May 2012 10:48:45 -0700
Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka left prison decrying the "vendetta" perpetrated against him on Monday, two years after being locked up following an unsuccessful bid to unseat the president.