The ancestral home of Sri Lanka’s slain Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has been demolished as it was becoming a tourist attraction, a Tamil politician said Thursday. M. K. Sivajilingam, secretary of the Tamil National Liberation Alliance, accused security forces of destroying the house a year after Prabhakaran was killed when the rebels were [...]
Innnovation is key in modern day cricket and no shot in the past few years can be described as more innovative than the “Dilscoop”. Ralph Ellis tells us about the man who created it and Sri Lanka’s chances in the T20 World Cup. “Just as Cruyff brought his great technique to the biggest stage and [...]
India and Pakistan’s leaders were due to meet Wednesday at a regional summit in Bhutan, but a spy scandal dented already slim hopes that they might find a way back to substantive peace talks. On Tuesday on the eve of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s departure for the summit, officials in New Delhi said that [...]
In a recent interview with the newspaper The New York Times, the U.S. president, Barack Obama revealed that his administration gave the green light for the study and development of a new kind of concept of a military attack without the use of nuclear weapons, but with the same destructive power. This concept is called [...]
Engage regularly in physical exercise, and particularly in sexual intercourse, to fight off chronic illness, Brazil’s health minister has advised the general public. “People need to be active. A weekend football game must not be the only physical activity for a Brazilian. Adults need to do exercise: walk, dance and have safe sex,” said Jose [...]
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa met with the leaders of SAARC nations yesterday in the Bhutanese capital of Thimpu, as the 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference gets under way today. President Rajapaksa met with the President of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed and Prime Minister of Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal on Tuesday at [...]
You knew President Obama was going to play golf when he was in Asheville, North Carolina, over the weekend, because he apparently does that literally (not literally) all the time. But surely you’re wondering what else went on. Well, the veil of secrecy has been lifted at last. The Obamas played some tennis, ate some [...]
fter over a quarter century of civil war, Sri Lanka is finally witnessing an upswing in tourism. The island with abundant natural beauty is luring visitors, particularly from India, not just with sun, sand and sea but also with new attractions like ayurveda and adventure. ‘The tourism figures in the first quarter have doubled in [...]
A media rights group criticized Sri Lankan on Tuesday for appointing a politician to a government media post who allegedly organized attacks against journalists and press offices and called for his ouster. “The Sri Lankan government has again distinguished itself by assigning key posts to very controversial figures implicated in attacks on press freedom,” Paris-based [...]
Facebook announced some changes on Wednesday that are intended to make the Internet more social. Essentially, Facebook is stretching out into the rest of the web. But what do these new features actually mean for everyday people who use the Internet? And when you see these Facebook-looking features popping up on other web sites, how [...]
The general returned to detention after the parliamentary session Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka has been released from detention to appear in the opening session of parliament. The general, who is being court martialled, called for the “rule of law” in an attack on his arch-rival, President Mahinda Rajapaksa. His comments were his [...]
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Sri Lanka’s dominant wireless operator Dialog Telekom intends to change its name to Dialog Axiata, following the renaming of its Malsyaian parent firm, a stock exchange filing said. The proposed name “will accurately reflect its corporate identity,” Dialog said in a statement. The proposed name is a combination of the brand ‘Dialog’ and the name [...]
General Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka’s opposition leader and former army chief, demanded his freedom and called for democracy and the rule of law today in his first public appearance since being arrested in February. General Fonseka, who led the Army to victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels last year, is in the midst of a [...]
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