Most cricket playing nations are preparing for the forthcoming 50 overs World Cup, now. Or at least they have one eagle eye trained on it whilst they go through the already agreed to games between other nations. It would be a good opportunity for teams from the sub continent to lift the trophy with home or near [...]
Entrepreneur Binod Hariharan has big plans for his southern Indian firm, which develops astrology-based computer software to help users find a suitable spouse or plot their career paths. Similarly ambitious is Somporn Maneeratanakul, managing director of Thai Software Enterprises, and Nguyen Minh Duc, director of BKIS Security, a Vietnamese company that makes anti-virus programmes. But [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has given her backing to a Sri Lankan panel on post-war reconciliation. Mrs Clinton said the probe “holds promise” but insisted it should be able to investigate war crimes. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister GL Peiris, who met Mrs Clinton in Washington, said the panel might involve the UN “along [...]
Ten days ago, Sri Lanka marked the first anniversary of its victory over the LTTE. It was a momentous occasion for the man credited with taming the Tigers, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa . But the threat posed by the LTTE has not entirely disappeared as demonstrated by the multi-level security checks at Temple Trees, [...]
When the UN Human Rights Council convened a special session on Sri Lanka last May, many were hoping for meaningful discussion about possible war crimes committed during the final phase of the country’s civil war. Thousands of civilians, who had been trapped between the Sri Lankan military and increasingly desperate Tamil rebels, were dead. Reports [...]
Giving a fillip to the tourism industry in Sri Lanka, the United States has lifted the travel restrictions on its citizens. The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it was lifting its travel advisory on Sri Lanka, citing the peaceful atmosphere that has taken hold a year after the war against LTTE ended. “The [...]
FORMER PM John Howard’s bid for the ICC presidency has taken another hit with Sri Lanka’s cricket chief declaring he would not support it. The fresh body blow comes on top of objections from the South African and Zimbabwe boards, and questions over India’s support. The Australian reports that Sri Lanka Cricket’s interim committee chairman, [...]
When Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war ended last year, investors surged to its share market and sent the index rocketing up 125 percent and making it the top pick in global frontier investments. So far this year, stocks are up around 25 percent, making it Asia’s top gainer, but Sri Lankan government securities have emerged [...]
Ganeshwary Santhanam, 31, is one of thousands of women who joined the now defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which fought for an independent Tamil homeland for more than 25 years. She joined the movement – branded a terrorist group by many – and left during the ceasefire, got married to another fighter and [...]
Sri Lanka’s exports of tea and apparel to India rose sharply in 2009 as impediments in a free trade deal between the two neighbours were removed, an Indian diplomat said. Overall trade between the two countries is also recovering from recession in the first part of this year, said Vikram Misri, Indian deputy high commissioner [...]
Sri Lanka’s government has stepped up diplomatic pressure against UN attempts to investigate its conduct in the against Tamil Tiger rebels. But UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that he is still working on setting up a panel of experts to advise him on Sri Lanka’s human rights accountability. Sri Lanka’s foreign minister has said it [...]
Kumaran Pathmanathan alias “KP”, the detained former chief arms procurer and smuggler for the LTTE, is currently making an immense contribution to peace by working for ethnic harmony, says the Singapore-based expert on terrorism, Prof. Rohan Gunaratna. “He is building bridges between the Tamils and other communities, both at home and overseas, and is striving [...]
Lately, Russian media has been reporting on unidentified flying objects seen in Moscow skies. Recently a video was posted online showing a huge triangle 1.5 km wide soaring above the Moscow Kremlin. It was sitting above Red Square and shot by amateurs twice. The video was widely discussed in foreign communities interested in ufology. According to [...]
Medical professionals conducted a unique operation on a patient whose nose was turning into a trunk. Doctors of the Moscow regional scientific clinical institute named after Vladimirsky operated on a man whose nose tissues grew to gigantic size. The rare disease is called rhinophyma and it has been known for a while, yet it is [...]
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