The Church had planned to resume Sunday public services for the first time since the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 257 people
All public services by Sri Lanka’s Christian minority were cancelled after the April 21 suicide attacks
In the aftermath of Sunday’s deadly attacks, Sri Lankans are trying to understand what has happened
The attacks were the worst act of violence to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100 000 people
47 male applicants would be interviewed on Wednesday and Thursday, after the government advertised the vacancies in February
Sri Lankan troops have found 11 bodies of convicts raising the death toll in an overnight prison riot in the capital to 27, prisons minister said.
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/ 13 January 2011
Flooding in Sri Lanka has forced more than a million people out of their homes, the government said on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2009
Sri Lanka’s recovery from a decades-long civil war has been marred by graft, violence and a culture of lawlessness, a corruption watchdog said.
Sri Lanka said on Saturday it had smashed the Tamil Tigers’ maritime capability as Colombo pressed on with an offensive to crush the rebels.
Sri Lanka told Britain and France that it would keep up its military offensive until the leaders of the rebel Tamil Tigers have been captured.
Sri Lanka’s military readied on Monday for a final assault on Tamil Tigers boxed into a strip of jungle with thousands of trapped civilians.
A Sri Lankan newspaper editor has been detained over alleged links to a Tamil Tiger air attack in the capital, a family member said on Thursday.
Charges by the UN that 2 800 civilians had been killed in Sri Lanka in recent weeks were ”unsubstantiated”, it was reported on Saturday.
At least 32 Tamil Tiger rebels have died in the latest push by Sri Lankan government troops into the rebels’ fiefdom, it was reported on Friday.
Human Rights Watch called on Thursday on the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigerss to allow civilians trapped in the war zone to flee to safety.
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/ 9 February 2009
A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber hiding among a group of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka’s war zone blew herself up on Monday, killing at least 28.
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/ 7 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s top defence official on Saturday accused rebels of infiltrating international organisations in a bid to force a ceasefire.
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/ 3 February 2009
Patients who could walk fled one of the last functioning hospitals in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone on Tuesday after it was hit by artillery shells.
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/ 28 January 2009
A Sri Lankan health official says recent heavy fighting in the north has killed more than 300 civilians and wounded at least 1 000 others.
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/ 23 January 2009
Assailants beat a Sri Lanka newspaper editor and smashed his car as he drove to work on Friday, colleagues said.
Sri Lankan soldiers pressured the Tamil Tigers’ last stronghold on the Jaffna Peninsula on Wednesday
Sri Lankan attack helicopters bombed Tamil Tiger positions on Saturday, a day after ground forces seized the rebel headquarters town of Kilinochchi.
Sri Lankan troops marched into the Tamil Tigers’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi and the town is about to fall to the government , an official said.
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/ 28 December 2008
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed six paramilitary guards and wounded more than a dozen others in a residential area in Colombo.
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/ 22 October 2008
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels struck back against a major government offensive on Wednesday with suicide attacks on merchant ships.
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/ 20 October 2008
The Sri Lankan government admitted on Monday scores of its troops had been killed or injured in fierce fighting with the Tamil Tigers.
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/ 10 October 2008
Sri Lanka troops backed by fighter jets have moved deeper into Tamil Tiger territory in the island’s north, killing 39 rebels.
The expected fall of the Tamil Tigers’ capital would mark the separatists’ biggest loss in 13 years, but analysts say the conflict is far from over.
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/ 22 September 2008
Sri Lanka’s military battled towards the Tamil Tigers’ headquarters in the north of the island and killed 59 killed insurgents.
India clinched their first-ever one-day international series in Sri Lanka by winning the fourth match by 46 runs on Wednesday to take a 3-1 lead.
Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Vaas on Wednesday became the fourth bowler to grab 400 wickets in one-day internationals.
At least 74 people were killed during a Sri Lankan military push to take the symbolic capital of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.