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Sri Lanka rejects Indian offer to upgrade refinery
Colombo, April 29 (IANS) Sri Lanka has rejected an Indian offer to upgrade a refinery that is built to refine only Iranian oil, a minister said Sunday. Petroleum Minister Susil Premjayantha said the offer to upgrade the Sapugaskanda oil refinery had come from the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) but Colombo rejected it. He said since IOC already operates a majority of fuel stations in Sri Lanka and as

Witness: Man hit by cluster bomb in Sri Lanka war

A Sri Lankan man was wounded in the final months of the country's bloody civil war by an unexploded cluster bomblet that tore into his leg and buried itself in the gash, a medical worker who saw

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Carve out Tamil Eelam from Sri Lanka: DMK MP
New Delhi: India should prevail upon the UN for carving out a separate Tamil Eelam from Sinhala-dominated Sri Lanka as the "tyranny" in the Tamil areas was continuing, DMK said in the Lok Sabha

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Sri Lankan tea production drops
Sri Lanka's tea production fell 22.6 percent in March compared with the same period of 2011, said the state-run Tea Board Wednesday, fueling fears that the industry is heading for tough times.

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Sri Lanka to have blood pressure meters in public places
Colombo: Sri Lanka will install meters in Colombo's public places to measure blood pressure of people, in a country where at least 350 die every day due to heart attacks, hypertension and respiratory

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Sri Lankan Muslims denounce 'radical' Buddhist's attack on mosque
Sri Lankan Muslims have accused 'radical' Buddhists of trying to damage peaceful co-existence between the country's main ethnic communities.

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