Sarath Fonseka’s candidature in the upcoming presidential elections might be a setback for the Rajapakse dynastic project. But the general’s Sinhala supremacy agenda cannot calm the minorities. Sri Lanka’s election season commenced with a thunderbolt, a development unthinkable in those heady days six months ago, when the demise of the Tamil Tigers was celebrated with [...]
Anti-graft campaign group Transparency International accused Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Thursday of using state property and public cash to illegally finance his re-election bid. The Sri Lanka branch of the Berlin-based watchdog said armed forces, police and public servants were being deployed to campaign for the ruling party in the January 26 vote. [...]
Sex is very pleasurable experience that satisfies the most basic biological cravings. It is such an overwhelmingly positive experience and rarely do all of its other health benefits enter the same conversation. The fact is that the benefits of sex stretch far beyond basic pleasure principles. Studies have confirmed that a healthy sex life of [...]
This month will bring the second of two full moons for North Americans on New Year’s Eve. Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full moons occur within a calendar month, that the second full moon is called the “blue moon.” The term has a very interesting history, riddled with misconceptions and errors. More [...]
DESPITE a gripping Ashes summer, a black cloud hung over cricket in 2009 after the terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Eight people were killed and nine more – including seven Sri Lanka players – were injured in an armed attack which targeted their team bus on the third morning of the second Test in Lahore. The [...]
Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator has begun investigations on broadband speeds advertised by telcos after a private research study found them exaggerating available bandwidth to surfers, a senior official said. “The Telecom Regulatory Commission is conducting its own investigations on mobile broadband speeds advertized by operators,” Priyantha Kariyapperuma, director general of the TRC said. “If any [...]
A fourteen-year old teenager had conflicts with her mother and stepfather as they did not let her live the way she wanted. It is a common problem for teenagers, but the girl decided to solve hers in the most radical way. She complained about the conflict to her 19-year old boyfriend Isaev, a vocational school [...]
Earth-like planets are beautiful because they contain life, green forests, the exuberance of fauna. Earth and life are, say physicists, very high improbabilities that worked, the present design, the great master that governs the universe. While Saturn, seen from afar, is the jewel of the solar system, with its rings decorating it, is an arid [...]
“Who Killed Cock Robin”? Not I, said the Sparrow With my Bow and Arrow” The above lines from an old nursery rhyme recur constantly in my mind when looking at the controversy surrounding the deaths of some senior leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) in the early hours of May 18th 2009. Balasingham [...]
Although Sri Lanka is not a signatory to the Rome Convention which set up the International Criminal Court (ICC), the island nation can still be dragged before the ICC without its consent, senior cabinet minister and a former Professor of Law, G.L.Peiris, has said. He told The Sunday Island on December 20, that the UN [...]
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will be Lancashire’s overseas player next season, the English county announced Monday. The 32-year-old Sangakkara, one of the world’s leading batsmen, will arrive at Old Trafford once he has completed his international commitments at the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean and at the proposed Asia Cup. Sangakkara has been a [...]
My aim is to establish democracy and create a parliament that is accountable to the people, says common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka. He was addressing a propaganda rally held in Digana, Kandy on Sunday to pledge support to him, where several political party representatives were present. “I once had a dream to win this [...]
President Mahinda Rajapakse says a pension will be given to employees of all corporations under the new government that will be established on 27th of next month. The president added measures will also be taken to create an environment where every citizen of the country could live without fear. The corruption will also be eliminated. [...]
Moving on to the 1996 World Cup – can you talk about the knock against India in Delhi? The Delhi match was unique. When India got 275, we never expected to win. But once Kalu [Romesh Kaluwitharana] and I went after the new ball, India didn’t know what was going on. My 79 came off [...]
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