COLOMBO - SRI Lanka on Sunday rejected growing calls to probe human rights violations amid allegations that thousands of civilians perished in the final battle against Tamil separatists.
NEW DELHI - AN INDIAN court has upheld a decision by a religious body to deny a female student who plucked her eyebrows admission to a Sikh university, media reports said on Sunday.
TAIPEI - A GROUP of Chinese computer and home appliance manufacturers arrived on Sunday with plans to buy billions of dollars worth of goods and components from Taiwan, officials and news reports said.
KOYRA (Bangladesh) - AN OUTBREAK of diarrhoea has spread across Bangladesh's south-west after a cyclone slammed into the south of the country and neighbouring India earlier in the week, officials said on Sunday.
