High international tea prices will offset the impact of adverse weather on output, according to projections by sector regulator Tea Board of Kenya. TBK projects this season’s output at 350 million kilogrammes and earnings at Sh74 billion, surpassing last season’s Sh69 billion. Farmers had feared that their fortunes would be turned upside down by a [...]
Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka’s former armed forces chief, was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for “disgraceful conduct” in military procurements Thursday, officials said. Fonseka, who led troops to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels last year, was to be moved from the Navy headquarters, where he was detained, to the Welikade Prison in Colombo. [...]
What really happened in the closing stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war? There’s been a chorus of international demands that the final months – January to May last year – be the subject of an international investigation, with allegations that both the government and the Tamil Tigers committed war crimes causing the deaths of thousands [...]
Colombo, Sep 29 (DPA) The Sri Lankan government is set to release Thursday over 400 former Tamil rebels who have undergone rehabilitation from detention camps in the north of the country, a military spokesman said Wednesday. An official ceremony to mark their release is to take place in Vavuniya, 240 km north of the capital [...]
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is expected to communicate his decision on the recommendations made by the second court martial against former Army Commander and parliamentarian retired General Sarath Fonseka. The military spokesperson told the local media Wednesday that the military is awaiting a communication from the President’s office on the recommendations by the second [...]
By Saroj Pathirana BBC News Environmentalists in Sri Lanka have expressed concern over government plans to build a nuclear power plant by 2025. Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka announced that the government intends to build the plant to fulfil increasing demands for energy. The minister has said the country needs to ensure that there will be [...]
A senior office at the police headquarters told Lanka News Web that information has not been received to prove that former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka’s son-in-law, Dhanuna Thilekaratne, has feld the country and that the intelligence units have expressed doubts whether he is hiding in the premises of the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo. He [...]
By Babu G. Ranganathan The scientific method is used every day in forensic science to determine whether an event in a crime scene was an accident or by design and intention. Mathematical probability is a scientific argument and is frequently used in determining many issues of scientific inquiry. The scientific method cannot be used to [...]
Argentina showed a very negative reaction to a recent statement from former football star Diego Maradona, who said that he was ready to become the head coach of the national team at all costs. Opinion polls showed that Maradona’s intention finds support with only one in every ten respondents. Nowadays, many refer to the world’s [...]
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa Sri Lanka is under siege after the introduction of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which dissolved term limits of the President who, by an earlier constitution, is above the law and can now dispense with the independence commissions for free & fair elections, corruption control, police and government services which was [...]
The Sri Lankan government has organized a special job fair in the northern town of Vavuniya for former Tamil Tiger rebels who have been rehabilitated and undergone vocational training, a senior government official said on Sunday. Vijithamuni Zoysa, deputy minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms said over 25 private sector organizations from various fields such [...]
Bank of Ceylon (BOC), the leading commercial bank in Sri Lanka and bankers to the nation, is proud to announce its recent achievement in winning the accolade as the best Sri Lankan Trade Bank at the Trade Finance Awards 2010. These prestigious awards are conducted annually by Trade Finance, the global magazine for exports and [...]
Every story eventually gets mythologized, especially when it comes to the history of popular music groups and performers. The history of the most popular band of all times The Beatles also became a subject of this mandatory mythologizing. Here’s an example of one such myth. Many sources on the Internet claim that Beatlemania started on [...]
In the 21st century, their paintings are sold at auctions for ridiculous sums of money, their literary works are included in the curriculum of many countries, and their music sounds in the most prestigious theaters in the world. Yet, in their lifetime they got nothing but insults and public censure. Life was unfair to many [...]
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