India set to hike rates again in anti-inflation battle
NEW DELHI, March 16, 2011 (AFP) - India is set to raise borrowing costs on Thursday for an eighth time in just over a year as it struggles to bring down an …
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Sri Lanka, India talks to end poaching issue
Mar 15, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to send a team of officials to India for talks on ending poaching by Indian fishermen in the island's northern waters, …
Sri Lanka wards off tuna quota: minister
Mar 16, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has prevented efforts to restrict her tuna quota in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), fisheries minister Rajitha …
Hazard Warning
Mar 13, 2011 (LBO) - A Great Earthquake, one of the most powerful in recorded history, occurred off the coast of Honshu, North East Japan, on the 11th of March …
Quick Trigger
March 13, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lankan immigration authorities detained a Pakistani journalist with the same name as the man who staged an abortive car bomb attack …
Fear as Japan struggles with stricken nuke reactors
FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2011 (AFP) - Japan battled a nuclear emergency Sunday in which the government said twin meltdowns may have taken place and that radiation …
Sri Lanka seal World Cup quarters berth
NEW DELHI, March 10, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka became the first team to qualify for the World Cup quarter-finals on Thursday after an emphatic victory over …
Sri Lanka tea crops recover
Mar 11, 2011 (LBO) - Tea harvests from Sri Lanka's main plantations areas have improved following a slump caused by bad weather which affected the first …
Sri Lanka may temporarily allow maize imports
Mar 11, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka may temporarily lift a 35 percent import tax on maize to prevent prices going higher and hurting the island's poultry industry …
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OTTAWA, March 9, 2011 (AFP) - An asylum seeker from Sri Lanka has been ordered deported over his links to an extremist Tamil separatist group, Canada's …
India car sales jump 23%
MUMBAI, March 9, 2011 (AFP) - Car sales in India jumped nearly 23 percent in February from a year earlier, industry data showed Wednesday, as customers snapped …
Galleon Trial
NEW YORK, March 8, 2011 (AFP) - The trial of former hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam began Tuesday in New York with the painstaking selection of a jury in a …
Sri Lanka tea exporter presses for imports for blending
Mar 09, 2011 (LBO) - Finlays Colombo has urged Sri Lankan authorities to allow more tea imports for blending saying it could lose market share by not catering …
Grameen bank founder says sacking ‘political’
DHAKA, March 7, 2011 (AFP) - Bangladeshi Nobel laureate and micro-lending pioneer Muhammad Yunus claimed Monday his ousting from a high-profile bank job was a …
Devastated Pietersen adds to World Cup injury woes
NEW DELHI, March 7, 2011 (AFP) - England star Kevin Pietersen became the injury-cursed World Cup's latest victim on Monday, his high-profile departure …
Threat Assessment
TORONTO, March 7, 2011 (AFP) - A Tamil asylum seeker accused of extremist links for living in a former rebel-controlled area of Sri Lanka is not a threat to …
Bangladesh creates $700mn fund to prop up stocks
DHAKA, March 7, 2011 (AFP) - Bangladesh will create a $700 million mutual fund, the country's biggest ever, in a bid to stabilise the highly volatile Dhaka …
Indian property boss resigns over telecom scandal
MUMBAI, March 7, 2011 (AFP) - The head of one of India's top real-estate companies resigned on Monday after being arrested as part of a probe into a telecom …
Sri Lanka-Aussies washed out, Dhaka in security row
NEW DELHI, March 5, 2011 (AFP) - Torrential rain washed away defending champions Australia's World Cup clash with Sri Lanka on Saturday, just as the eagerly …
Bajaj Auto faces rough ride in India car market
MUMBAI, March 6, 2011 (AFP) - Abhijit is fiercely proud of his Kawasaki Bajaj motorbike and considers himself a company loyalist.buy antabuse online buy …