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UN resolution won't change ties with India, US: Colombo

Sri Lanka on Thursday said its friendly ties with India and the US will not change despite a resolution being moved against it at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Acting Media Minister Laksman Ya

India votes against Sri Lanka, then mollifies Colombo

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India on Thursday voted for a US-backed resolution urging Sri Lanka to probe rights abuses in the war on the Tamil Tigers, but quickly emphasised that Colombo's sovereignty must be respected.

After j

SL envoy apologises to TN MPs

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Lankan high commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam was forced to apologise on Thursday for asking India to probe politicians sympathetic to LTTE. His apology came even as the issue rocked Rajya Sabha with me

Don't support US-backed resolution on Lanka: Swamy to govt

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Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Thursday said India should not support the US-backed UN resolution for an inquiry into human rights violations by Sri Lankan army following alleged surfacin

Elders raise objections to Lankan envoy's remarks

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Members from Tamil Nadu in Rajya Sabha on Thursday raised strong objections to the reported remarks of Sri Lankan High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam against MPs of the state and demanded a catego

Sri Lanka rejects latest war crimes video

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Sri Lanka on Thursday rejected a new video aired on Britain's Channel 4 which levelled fresh allegations of war crimes against the country's leadership and military.

In response to the video "Sri Lan

Rajiv Gandhi killer Nalini Sriharan's 'A' class prison facilities restored

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The Madras High Court on Thursday restored 'A' class facilities in terms of food, drinking water and a bed to Nalini Sriharan who is serving a life sentence at Vellore women's jail for her involvement

LTTE's Prabhakaran was shot dead after 'surrender'

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Just a day after the world reacted in horror to a video showing the body of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son, with five close-range gun wounds to the chest, it has emerged the Tiger

Sri Lanka army film to refute war crimes charges

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Sri Lanka's military is preparing its own documentary on its final battle with Tamil rebels as a response to allegations of war crimes, army chief Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya said.

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Sri Lanka war crimes: Uproar in Parliament, govt seeks to mollify opposition

The Rajya Sabha was disrupted on Tuesday as opposition parties demanded to know the government's stand on atrocities on Sri Lankan Tamils after a picture of a bullet-ridden body of a boy said to be th

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