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Sri Lanka's ex-army chief freed from jail

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Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka was released from prison on Monday after he was jailed following his unsuccessful bid to unseat the president in 2010, and vowed to ‘save’ the country.

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Sri Lanka President orders ex-army chief freed

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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse has ordered the release of his jailed electoral rival, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, the presidential spokesman said Sunday.

The former four-star general will

Sri Lanka rejects calls for withdrawal of troops from north

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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday rejected international calls to withdraw troops from the country's former warzones, warning that LTTE diaspora had not given up separatism.

"Some a

Sri Lankan HC grants bail to Fonseka

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Jailed former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka was on Friday granted bail by the High Court here in a case for harbouring military deserters, ahead of an imminent presidential pardon for him.

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Sri Lankan woman bites off lover's penis: Doctor

A Sri Lankan woman bit off the penis of her 30-year-old lover during a row on Friday, a doctor said, as police investigated two other incidents.

The man was rushed to a rural hospital in Andapana, 18

India encouraged LTTE in the 1980's: Book

The Indian policy on Sri Lanka in the 1980s, the formative years of the LTTE, provided encouragement to the separatist group, a new book has claimed.

The book, 'Gota's War', talks about India's ‘cove

Lankan forces bust biggest-ever secret LTTE arms dump

Two years after the decisive battle in which the Tamil Tigers were vanquished, Sri Lankan security forces made their biggest-ever haul recovering 6,250 kgs of hidden LTTE explosives.

The arms cache

Sri Lanka has more mobile phones per person

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The mobile telephone users in Sri Lanka have increased rapidly over the year 2011 with more than 105 telephone connections for 100 people, authorities said on Tuesday.

According to a Central Bank ann

Pakistan to tour Sri Lanka next month

Pakistan will tour Sri Lanka next month for three Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games, Sri Lanka Cricket said on Monday.

The Pakistanis will kick off the six-week tour with two

Sri Lanka rejects Indian offer to upgrade refinery

Sri Lanka has rejected an Indian offer to upgrade a refinery that is built to refine only Iranian oil, a minister said on Sunday.

Petroleum Minister Susil Premjayantha said the offer to upgrade the S

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