http://www.lankanewstoday.com Sri Lanka News Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:18:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Jamila Najmuddin and Supun Dias Mar 8, 2010 General Sarath Fonseka will be tried on over five charges under the Army Act and will face a court martial within the next few days, Army Spokesperson Major General Prasad Samarasingha told Daily Mirror Online. According to the military, the summary of evidence over ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/five-charges-against-fonseka 8:21 AM Monday Mar 8, 2010 New Zealand began the long trek back to top-level Asia-Oceania tennis with a 3-2 Davis Cup group two win over Sri Lanka in Colombo this weekend. The New Zealanders won the opening singles matches, Rubin Statham grinding out a gruelling five-set win over Harshana Godamanna and ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/tennis-nz-down-sri-lanka-in-davis-cup Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:21 Japan’s Nissan Motor said on Wednesday it would recall nearly 540,000 vehicles worldwide, most of them in the United States, due to brake pedal defects and faulty fuel gauges. Nissan — Japan’s third-largest carmaker, and partnered with France’s Renault — said it plans “to inspect and, ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/nissan-recalls-540000-vehicles-worldwide March 7, 2010 5:47 p.m. EST Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- More than 100 people were dead after an attack Sunday on a predominantly Christian group in central Nigeria, officials said. The attacks, which resembled earlier outbreaks of ethno-religious violence in the West African nation, prompted Nigeria's vice president to place security on ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/officials-attack-on-nigerian-town-kills-more-than-100 The market activity in the Colombo Stock Exchange witnessed mixed results as the week which began on a positive note endured a temporally blip but recovered and ended marginally up as investors looked to exploit on capital gains. The benchmark All Share Price Index (ASPI) was up 16.31 points week ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/weekly-market-focus Sri Lanka war zone May 2009 The government's victory over the Tigers ended a bloody civil war Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has denounced plans by UN chief Ban Ki-Moon to ask a panel of experts to look into human rights issues on the island. Mr Rajapaksa told Mr Ban the move was ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/sri-lankas-rajapaksa-dismisses-un-human-rights-panel [gallery link="file"] Posted by admin on Mar 7th, 2010 and filed under Lead. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry from your site Seven soldiers belonging to the Sri Lanka Army’s Military Intelligence Unit will continue to ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/seven-soldiers-detained-for-the-murder-of-lasantha 2010-03-07 12:49:57 Gen (retd) Sarath Fonseka has gone on a protest fast after a decision by the military to withdraw telephone facilities for the ex-army cheif to speak to his family members, a senior military officer said. Ms. Anoma Fonseka also confrimed that Gen Fonseka is on a fast in protest over ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/gen-fonseka-on-a-fast-in-protest-over-withdrawl-of-phone-facilities B. Muralidhar Reddy Visiting Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao on Sunday inaugurated the India-Sri Lanka Centre for English Language Training (SLICELT) at a ceremony in Peradeniya, near Kandy. A statement issued by the Indian mission here said that while speaking at the inauguration ceremony, the Foreign Secretary recalled her association with the initiative, ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/india-sri-lanka-%e2%80%98sister-countries%e2%80%99-nirupama-rao THE NATIONALIST PAPERS by Malinda Seneviratne In October or November of the year 2001 I wrote a piece in the daily ‘Island’ titled ‘A refugee camp called "The National List’. It was a light and cynical look at the national lists submitted to the Elections Commissioner by the People’s Alliance, the United ... http://www.lankanewstoday.com/national-lists-the-last-refuge-for-the-politically-displaced