The former chief of Sri Lanka’s army formally announced Sunday that he would seek to replace his onetime ally, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in elections to be held in January. Gen. Sarath Fonseka retired from the army in mid-November after months of tension with Mr. Rajapaksa, who has staked his re-election campaign on the resounding military [...]
The decimation of the LTTE in Sri Lanka has given a big push to illegal immigration involving Sri Lankan Tamils in India. There is a sudden spurt in Sri Lankan Tamils illegally crossing over to India to take a flight abroad. Agents have kept apace by doubling fees for passports and visa. Investigators believe most [...]
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Several waves of cattle mutilation were reported in the end of the 20th century. A mysterious “predator” opened animal carcasses cutting out their internal organs. The predator was unstoppable and dead cattle were found even in zoos. The most mutilations occurred in 1975 – 1976, the worst of them found in the US. There were [...]
A Saudi official says the death toll from the unusually heavy rains that hit western Saudi Arabia has reached 106. The official says rescue teams were looking for possible survivors from the downpours that caused heavy flooding in the coastal city of Jiddah, the main entry point for the millions of Muslims performing the annual [...]
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Newly married Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty said that she would go for her honeymoon to the United States. Shetty visited her guru Kalki Bhagavan at Satyavedu, near Tirupati along with her husband Raj Kundra and a few other relatives. Shetty said she would be leaving for the US on Saturday. “I don’t make any plan, [...]
A. Ram, a top LTTE leader now in the custody of the Sri Lankan government, has issued a Heroes’ Day message condemning the way Velupillai Prabhakaran had led the LTTE and the Tamil people, the Tamilnet website reports. Ram had blamed Prabhakaran’s “uncompromising policy” for the defeat of the Tamil armed struggle and the annihilation [...]
If General Sarath Fonseka is elected as the President he will behave like a dictator and no one will be able to speak out against him or his misdoings and so he will not have the vote of the minorities especially the Tamils, the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) said. The CWC media unit qouted Estate [...]
Sri Lanka’s former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka has said he plans to contest the January 26 presidential polls and his goal is to “counter dictatorship” and set up a democratic society. Fonseka, who quit as Chief of Defence Staff recently following a spat with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said he aimed to set up a democratic [...]
Perhaps the story of the series so far has been the ease with which the Sri Lankan spinners have been countered by the Indian batsmen. A mountain of runs in the first two Tests has been in stark contrast to the plight of the Indian batsmen when Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis tormented them in [...]
A luxury express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed on Friday night after a bomb detonated on the tracks in a rural area, killing more than 25 people and injuring more than 100 others, officials said. The force of the crash crumpled parts of the train, propelling several of its [...]
India achieved their biggest victory against Sri Lanka and in the process clinched their 100th Test win on the fourth day of the second Test in Kanpur. India’s previous best against their neighbors was a victory by an innings and 119 runs in 1994 and they bettered that with ease today. Thilan Samaraweera resisted the [...]
The UK will try to block Sri Lanka’s bid to host the next Commonwealth summit over its handling of the recent war, a UK government source has said. Sri Lanka could not be “rewarded” for actions that had a “huge impact on civilians”, the source said. The current Commonwealth summit is about to get under [...]
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