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    Sri Lanka urged to prosecute suspects of torture

    Detainees in Sri Lanka are routinely tortured, but the government is not credibly investigating the allegations, Amnesty International said as it demanded the prosecution of the security officials involved.Sri Lanka has legislation against torture, but no effective way to implement it...
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    EU to SL: Respect media rights

    EU Heads of Mission in Colombo view with concern the recent blocking of various news websites in Sri Lanka. The EU considers that freedom of press forms an integral part of any democratic system. The EU therefore believes that the media should be allowed to operate independently. The EU also...
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    UNP warns of public surge

    The UNP today warned that there would be a public surge very soon if the government continued to violate democratic norms through its actions such as the introduction of a bill to acquire underperforming and unutilised assets. Addressing a press conference, UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya...
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    SL's Senior Buddhist monks oppose expropriation law

    Senior Sri Lankan Buddhist monks asked the state to withdraw a planned law to expropriate businesses, saying it violated citizens rights and that loss-making state enterprises should be turned around first. They said the proposed law would deter local and foreign investment the current...
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    SRM University opens campus in Sri Lanka

    India’s privately-run SRM University has entered Sri Lanka, setting up its international campus in the Capital. Welcoming the commencement of operations of the Chennai-based university, the Minister of Industry and Commerce Mr Rishath Bathiyutheen said arrival of international education...
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    War games: US / Israel

    US Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro says the US and the Israeli regime are set to hold their 'largest and most significant' joint military maneuvers without offering details about the time and location of the war games. More than 5,000 US and Israeli forces will...
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    Sheraton to build hotel in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo

    Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, the largest Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide brand, will build a hotel in the Sri Lankan capital on land originally offered to a Chinese firm, a government official said on Sunday. The island nation's junior economic minister said the government has completed...
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    Killers arrested: Dr. Prasad Jayasinghe

    The two soldiers who allegedly carried out the killing of Dr. Prasad Jayasinghe in front of his dispensary in Thalagashandiya, Karandeniya on September 29 were arrested by the Military Police (MP) and were subsequently handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). “We have...
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    Army to build a five star hotel in Colombo

    The Sri Lanka Army is planning to build a five star hotel in Colombo and is currently looking for a suitable land to implement the project, Military spokesman Brigadier Nihal Hapuarachchi said. Recently Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya emphasised the need to have a...
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    ITV Granada to launch

    TV Studios Global Entertainment has announced new carriage deals for its entertainment channel ITV Granada, with pay TV platforms in India, the Middle East and South Korea adding the channel. It has done a deal with Bharti Airtel's DTH platform Airtel Digital TV and will join it later this...
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    TNA : Government is not serious

    Sri Lanka's main Tamil opposition party has told senior U.S. officials that the island nation's government is not serious about power-sharing and probing allegations of war crimes, a visiting lawmaker said Friday. The complaint from the Tamil National Alliance comes ahead of a Sri Lankan...
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    Sri Lanka targets dissident websites

    Sri Lanka on Saturday warned websites to register with the authorities after the United States expressed deep concern over Colombo's blocking of a popular Internet-based dissident publication. The Ministry of Mass Media and Information said many reports posted on dissident websites amounted...
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    UN: Iran is building nuclear warheads

    There is a ‘compelling case’ that Iran is secretly building an arsenal of nuclear warheads, warns the United Nations. As speculation mounts that Israel or the U.S. could lead a military strike against Iran, a report clearly rejects Tehran’s claims its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes...
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    SL to Aus : Police arrest 8

    A group of six Sri Lankans and two from the Seychelles were arrested yesterday while attempting to illegally leave the country for Australia by boat, police said today. They said the group of eight was apprehended from a safe house situated on the beach at Beruwala, following information...
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    SL sugar mill blockaded, director assaulted

    A sugar mill in Sri Lanka slated for expropriation has been blockaded by ruling party activists and there was no police protection its owner said, raising fresh questions about liberty, rule of law and justice for the island's citizens. "As of now our factory is blockaded, a director was...
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    UK student visa process streamlined

    Tough new rules and enforcement action to stop abuse of the UK student visa system mean that over 450 education providers would no longer be able to sponsor new international students, the British High Commission in Colombo said in a statement today. The sponsors’ register was published on...
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    Curfew in Ahungalla and Karandeniya

    A Police curfew will be effective from today 6.00pm to tomorrow 6.00am in the Karandeniya and the Ahungalla areas, Police said. Police said additional STF teams have been deployed in these areas. The curfew in Karandeniya was imposed last night following tension after the suspects...
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    Iran warns Israel

    Iran's top military chief warned that his country would retaliate harshly against an Israeli strike on its nuclear sites, as Israel successfully test fired a new ballistic missile. Responding to reports that Israel was preparing to launch an attack against Iran, the Islamic Republic's...
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    Kudu Baba arrested

    The Vavuniya police today arrested an alleged drug dealer known as ‘Kudu Baba’ who had run an illegal drug business in the area since the end of the war, with 500 grams of heroin in his possession. The arrest had been made on an intelligence report received by the STF in Vavuniya and...

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