The Sri Lankan government took control of a private bank saddled with bad debt declaring that the action was required to ‘maintain the stability of the financial system’.

Sri Lanka unveiled a 16 billion- rupees ($141 million) stimulus package that includes cutting fuel prices and removing some taxes saying it is needed to stimulate the economy in the face of a global economic downturn.

A UN official in northern Sri Lanka has said that conditions for displaced people in LTTE-held areas are "as basic as in Somalia".

The historical link between the will of the Sinhala majority and war in the paradise isle.

Western dogma ensures support for Sri Lanka against the Tamils.

Political leaders of Tamil Nadu condemned Sri Lanka Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka for his derogatory comments on Tamil Nadu leaders in an interview to a Sri Lankan state-owned newspaper.

Sri Lanka's dragging ethnic conflict is at a decisive phase, with the military determined to crush the Tamil Tigers and the LTTE adamantly refusing to give up.

AS the government's war against the LTTE enters the bloodiest phase in the country's history, our research has found that the costly war of attrition is irreparably scarring an entire generation of Sri Lanka's youth.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader's Canadian link; In a National Post exclusive, the sister of the Tamil Tigers' leader speaks to Stewart Bell about her life in Toronto.

"Kilinochchi within kissing distance". So said the disinformation warriors of Lt.Gen.Sarath Fonseka, the Sri Lankan Army Commander, more than a week ago.

* Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers killed in latest fighting * Over a thousand injured as LTTE puts up stiff resistance

With the sun glistening on waves that gently lap its clean sandy beaches and coral reefs, Hikkaduwa is the perfect tourist paradise. But there is one thing missing -tourists.

Sri Lanka has been named as a country where genocide and other mass atrocities are underway or risk breaking out.

Whilst Sri Lanka’s exports to India dropped 13%, the island’s exports to Pakistan has grown by 31%according to a Sri Lankan trade expert.