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Lanka President Sirisena vows to eradicate LTTE ideology completely

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has vowed to "eradicate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ideology" locally and globally.

Sri Lankan Prez Sirisena calls for unity in I-Day speech, Modi tweets in Sinhalese

Sri Lanka's president says country has not been able to unite the hearts and minds of ethnic groups despite ending a decades-old civil war five years ago.

Australia relents, temporarily allows SL asylum seekers ashore

Two boats of Sri Lankans were intercepted by Australia's border patrol in the Indian Ocean in late June.

Australia admits handing over Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lankan govt

There were claims that Australia could be breaking international law by screening them at sea and returning them involuntarily to a country in which they had a well-founded fear of persecution.

Communal violence in SL again: Sinhala - Muslim riots kill 3

The tensions between Sinhalese and Muslim groups was reported from the Aluthgama and Beruwala areas of Southern Sri Lanka, and are believed to have occurred following an inciteful speech by anti- Muslim Sinhalese extremist group the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)

Tamils in Jaffna want army occupation to end

Four years after Sri Lanka's army crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrilla army and ended a civil war that had lasted nearly three decades, Tamils say they are blatantly repressed in Jaffna, the capital of this Indian Ocean island's northern peninsula.

Sri Lanka's TNA headed for clean sweep in historic Northern poll

The win provides a platform for the party to campaign for an autonomous federal state, although the provincial council is a largely toothless body.

Sri Lanka appoints panel to investigate mass grave in south

Construction workers found the grave last December at a state-run hospital in Matale, about 105 kilometers (65 miles), northeast of the capital, Colombo. The skeletons were buried in neat rows, five or six stacked on top of one another.

Google Drive gets support for 18 new languages; Urdu, Nepali included

Google Drive has been updated, with the addition of 18 new languages. Now considering how widely ...