Colombo, Feb. 11 : Sri Lanka's cricket captain Mahela Jayawardene resigned from the post on Wednesday.
The Sri Lanka Cricket Board sources said Jayawardene decided to quit the captaincy from both forms of cricket after the Test series against Pakistan.
Sri Lanka was handed a 4-1 drubbing by India in the recently concluded One-day series during which Jayawardene's lacklusture performance was criticised by top cricket officials, The Colombo Times reports.
Colombo- At least 17 people were killed and 69 wounded Tuesday when Tamil rebels fired at a group of civilians fleeing the shrinking area still under rebel control in northern Sri Lanka, the military said.
The civilians were trying to cross the battle lines in the area of Pudukudirippu, 385 kilometres north-east of Colombo, when they were fired upon, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
He said they were among a group of 970 civilians who were entering the government-controlled area.
Colombo - The BBC World Service on Tuesday stopped providing radio news to Sri Lanka's state broadcaster because of what it calls "deliberate interference" by government censors.
A statement from the BBC said that its FM broadcasts to the Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation have been suspended with effect from Tuesday.
Colombo - A female suicide bomber posing as a civilian entered a government-controlled area from the Tamil rebel-held area in northern Sri Lanka Monday morning and detonated herself at a welfare centre, killing several persons and injuring at least 60 others, the military said.
The explosion went off in the Visuamadu area, 360 kilometres north-east of the capital, where the military is receiving hundreds of civilians before they are sent to transit camps.
Colombo, Feb. 11 : Sri Lanka's cricket captain Mahela Jayawardene resigned from the post on Wednesday.
Colombo- At least 17 people were killed and 69 wounded Tuesday when Tamil rebels fired at a group of civilians fleeing the shrinking area still under rebel control in northern Sri Lanka, the military said.
Lahore, Feb. 10: The Sri Lankan cricket team will return to Pakistan on February 14 to participate in the two match Test series starting February 21.
Colombo - The BBC World Service on Tuesday stopped providing radio news to Sri Lanka's state broadcaster because of what it calls "deliberate interference" by government censors.
Bangalore, Feb 9 : Bangalore is hosting an international film festival on wildlife and environment. The five-day long festival kicked off on Monday.
Colombo - A female suicide bomber posing as a civilian entered a government-controlled area from the Tamil rebel-held area in northern Sri Lanka Monday morning and detonated herself at a welfare centre, killing several persons and injuring at least 60 others, the military said.
