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Pakistan hold nerves to beat Sri Lanka

Pakistani bowlers held their nerves to stop a threatening Sri Lankan team to win the third day-night international by 21 runs here on Friday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
Umar Gul (3-48) bowled well in the final overs to make sure good work by spinners Saeed Ajmal (3-42) and [...]

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Sri Lankan FM slams ‘biased’ UN rights report

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Sunday condemned a “preposterous” UN-commissioned report alleging war crimes in his country, revealing he stopped Canada raising it at a Commonwealth meeting.
Foreign Minister Gamini Peiris also confirmed Sri Lanka will host the next Commonwealth leaders’ meeting in 2013, saying that none of the 54-nation bloc raised the prospect of [...]

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Pakistan confident ahead of second Sri Lanka Test

Misbah-ul Haq will look for an improved performance from his fielders to menace Sri Lanka in the second Test which starts at Dubai sports city stadium from Wednesday.
Pakistan snatched a draw from the jaws of a win by dropping as many as seven catches to let the Sri Lankans off in the first Test in [...]

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Austrian kidnap victim Kampusch opens Sri Lanka kid’s ward

Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has opened a children’s hospital in Sri Lanka with donations she received after escaping an eight-year captivity in a cellar in 2006, reports said Sunday.
The hospital, in the small village of Bulathsinhala in southern Sri Lanka, will cater to a region of some 1,5 million inhabitants, treating mostly [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 17, 2011

Sri Lankan police probe deadly shootings at polls

Sri Lankan police launched an investigation on Sunday into an election-day gunfight between political rivals in which three people were shot dead, including one adviser to the president.
President Mahinda Rajapakse’s ruling alliance swept the polls, winning 22 out of 23 local councils in elections, but right groups said the shooting [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 10, 2011

First gas deposits found off Sri Lanka coast

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse announced on Sunday that natural gas deposits had been found for the first time duringexploratory drilling off the island’s coast.
The company prospecting in the area, Cairn Lanka, a fully-owned unit of Cairn India, confirmed it informed Sri Lankan authorities of a gas discovery during its first attempt to drill into the sea floor in the Mannar Basin.
Rajapakse [...]

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Sri Lanka leader says international criticism ‘tainted’

Sri Lanka’s president condemned “tainted” international allegations of a military massacre of civilians during an assault to end a Tamil rebellion.
President Mahinda Rajapakse on Friday appealed for international support as pressure mounted for the UN Human Rights Council to launch a war crimes inquiry into the 2009 campaign in which a UN panel said tens [...]

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Australia see Sri Lanka as a coming of age tour

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Three untried bowlers are among four uncapped players included in new-look Australia squad for then upcoming test series in Sri Lanka, as selectors gamble on fresh talent to stop a slide down the rankings.
The rebuilding phase that that began following the retirements of greats such as [...]

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Tiger-allied party sweeps Sri Lanka vote

A political party that was closely linked with the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels won control of two-thirds of local councils in Sri Lanka’s former war zone, results released on Sunday showed.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won 18 out of 26 councils that voted on Saturday in the former conflict areas [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 24, 2011

Sri Lanka’s war-hit Tamils vote for local councils

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Voters in Sri Lanka’s northern Tamil heartland trickled to polling stations Saturday to elect local councils following the country’s long civil war amid reports of intimidation and vote-buying.
The local elections have assumed unprecedented national significance, with some ethnic Tamil political party leaders saying a [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 24, 2011