India enters deflation as economy slows
NEW DELHI, June 18, 2009 (AFP) - India's annual inflation rate slipped into negative territory, official data showed Thursday, with the country's slowing …
Pakistan arrests Sri Lanka cricket attack suspect: police
LAHORE, June 17, 2009 (AFP) - Pakistani police said Wednesday they had arrested one of seven men from a shadowy Taliban-linked group accused of plotting the …
Flair all round as Sri Lanka face Windies
LONDON, June 18, 2009 (AFP) - West Indies are confident of chasing nearly any total in this event; Sri Lanka believe there is no score they can't defend. …
South Bunker
June 18, (LBO) – Sri Lanka is getting a 65 million US dollars loan from China's Exim Bank to build an oil storage facility in the Southern coastal town …
Rising Oil
June 18, 2009 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of the Indian Oil Corporation had asked Sri Lanka's petroleum ministry permission to raise petrol and diesel pump …
Sri Lanka lose 96,000 industrial jobs: official survey
June 18, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's industrial sector has lost 96,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2009 with the apparel workers losing 60,000 jobs and …
Sri Lanka meeting admits Maldives into regional clearing group
June 18, 2009 (LBO) – the Asian Clearing Union (ACU), regional transaction settlement arrangement that tries aimed at by passing hard currency use, has …
Sri Lankan stocks close up 2.2-pct
June 17, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lankan stocks extended gains Wednesday, as high volume transactions on diversified conglomerates, banks and hotels propped up the …
Business leaders out to put India on US map
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2009 (AFP) - US and Indian business leaders meet Wednesday in a bid to put a new focus on the South Asian power, whose warming US ties …
Sri Lanka bank on spinners for success
NOTTINGHAM, June 17, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka expect the spinners to pick up another rich haul when they take on the West Indies in the World Twenty20 semi-final …
Sri Lanka should reach out to Tamil: US envoy nominee
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka needs to reach out to its Tamil minority and improve conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced after …
Sri Lanka GDP growth slows to 1.5-pct in 2009 first quarter
June 17, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's economic growth slowed to 1. online pharmacy buy spiriva inhaler with best prices today in the USA 5 percent in the first …
Sri Lanka public sector scam vies with private sector ones: minister
June 17, 2009 (LBO) – Sections of Sri Lanka's bloated public sector are stealing peoples' money in the same corrupt manner as high profile private sector …
Sri Lanka pins economic recovery on post-war revival
June 17, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's growth which plummeted to 1.5 percent in the first quarter may pick up later in 2009 with an agriculture and …
Sri Lankan shares up 0.2-pct
June 16, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lankan stocks lost early gains to close flat Tuesday as the plantations sector retreated from the previous day's highs, subdued from …
Not Yet
June 16, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank which offered a third stake of Seylan Bank to a private investor has not awarded it to the sold bidder by …
Constant Vigil
June 16, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankan depositors should be more vigilant as hundreds of smaller unregulated financial firms are still in existence despite the …
State Club
June 16, 2009 (LBO) - The clubhouse of a golf course which was ordered in to state hands by court over corruption charges is operating as a hotel and starting …
Bollywood director planning film on Australia ‘racist attacks’
MUMBAI, June 16, 2009 (AFP) - A Bollywood director said Tuesday he wants to make a film based on alleged racist attacks on Indian students in Australia, …
Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers ‘reorganise’ struggle for separate state
June 16, 2009 (AFP) - The few surviving leaders of Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil Tigers announced Tuesday they were reorganising the rebel movement and forming a …