Sri Lanka's new school admission policy has been delayed over fears that it might lead to a head-on collision between the legislature and the judiciary.

Sri Lanka's Navy destroyed a suspected Tamil Tiger boat and damaged another early on Monday while on a routine patrol near Trincomalee.

Sri Lanka's navy said it destroyed an LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) boat and damaged another, killing at least eight insurgents off the island's eastern coast Monday.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse left on a three-day state visit to the Maldives today even as dissatisfaction among his recently sacked ministers gathered steam.

Sri Lankan air force jets shelled a suspected Tamil Tiger base in rebel-held Mullaitivu district for the fourth straight day today.

Sri Lankan airforce jets today bombed suspected Tamil Tiger targets in the island's east, the defence ministry said.

The new year dawned with a fresh wave of violence in Sri Lanka, claiming the lives of 10 people in the northern and eastern parts of the island, a military official said Monday.

New Delhi, Dec 29 : The state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will set up a 500MW thermal power plant at Trincomalee in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan government has invited Inox Leisure Limited to expand its network with new multiplexes in that country, company Director Deepak Ashar said.

Eleven dead bodies of Muslim civilians were recovered from Ampara district in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday morning.

Five Sri Lankan refugees have been arrested on charges of attempting to go back to the island nation by an illegal ferry service, police said today.

The fresh batch of 378 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees reaching here recounted their horrific experiences of the ongoing battle between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers in the Jaffna peninsula.

In an emerging diplomatic row, the Sri Lanka Government has said that it is highly disturbed by Norway's Oversea's Development Minister Eric Solheim's unilateral statement about Colombo agreeing to participate in next week's peace talks without even consulting it.

The Sri Lankan military on Monday recovered some lost ground and took control of the Sampur town in the crucial Trincomalee District which had earlier gone in the hands of Tamil rebels.

A new flare-up of fighting in Sri Lanka has disrupted people returning to their homes in the northeastern Muttur town, the scene of recent violence and military operations, according to the UN refugee agency.

The Sri Lankan Navy has destroyed 12 boats of the Tamil Tigers in a fierce battle in the northern seas, the government said Saturday.

The Sri Lankan subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation has raised fuel prices by 7 percent to keep pace with soaring global oil prices.

Amid wide speculation, President Mahinda Rajapaksa suddenly flew to London last afternoon for talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and others, a government source said.

A Five Year National Plan on Power and Energy Development has been implemented to provide quality service at cheaper rates to people under the direction of Power and Energy Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne, a Ministry official said.

A kidnapped Sri Lankan Tamil journalist was released this morning after a nearly day of captivity.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse today made an unannounced visit to London, leaving even some of his top aides unawares.

Government troops and Tamil rebels exchanged mortar and artillery fire in northeastern Sri Lanka Monday, killing at least 12 soldiers and 20 others, believed to be civilians, military officials and reports from the area said.

Sri Lankan troops fired at positions held by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the Northeast of the island nation today to offset any attack on a key naval facility.

Securities and Exchange Board of India chief M Damodaran has suggested that Sri Lanka should consider introducing a system of grading public issues, similar to what is prevalent in India, to make it easier for investors to understand IPOs.

The arrest of eight Tamil men in the US on charges of attempting to buy sophisticated weapons marks a new low for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, now battling the most serious....