Police teams were rushed to the Sugathadasa indoor stadium late last night as pandemonium broke out at the end of the popular Megastar reality show conducted by Swarnavahini,TV station. Plastic bottles and other objects were thrown at the stage after the finalists were announced during the awards ceremony. Kurunegala district UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara who [...]
Sri Lanka’s National Trade Union Centre (NTUC) while condemning the arrest of Inter University Student Federation (IUSF) Convener, Udul Premaratna warned that the trade unions would join the students in their campaign, reported the Colombo Page. NTUC President and JVP politburo member, KD Lalkantha said that if the government continued in its suppressive actions against [...]
Sri Lanka Ministry of Health says that 90 percent of Sri Lankans suffer from oral diseases. It was revealed in a communiqu� issued by the Ministry to mark the National Oral Health Day that falls on October 31 each year. The theme of this years’ Oral Health Day is ‘Healthy Mouth for Elderly Age’. The [...]
The US awaits for a full account on the last days of the war -and also reminds the country’s new freedom has its other side-a great responsibility. US Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley emphasized these in the Daily Press Briefing held at Washington-DC on October 29, 2010. Saying a full account on the final days [...]
A Sri Lankan Tamil militant group turned political party has urged the Tamil diaspora to be ‘realistic’ to achieve a better political deal now that the Tamil Tigers are history. The Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) issued the appeal to the vast Tamil diaspora community spread around the world at a two-day conference that [...]
by Lal Gunesekera Minister of Higher Education S. B. Dissanayake came out strongly against the JVP and the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) which they control. He said that the IUSF is losing the grip that they had at universities and this was one reason that the JVP is instigating demonstrations and violence to show [...]
When Sarath Fonseka resigned as Sri Lanka’s top army general to run for president, supporters of President Mahinda Rajapaksa viewed the move as pure betrayal. The president had helped Fonseka rise quickly through the ranks, choosing him as his top general ahead of more qualified candidates. It was shocking to many here when Fonseka on [...]
Vice-captain Mahela Jayawardene said Friday Sri Lanka’s squad was close to what will be fielded in next year’s World Cup. The Sri Lankans will use Sunday’s Twenty20 clash at the WACA Ground here as their final tour match preparation for a three-match one-day international series against the top-ranked Australians. Jayawardene said Sri Lanka would use [...]
Thai authorities arrested more than 100 Lankan migrants who were en route to Canada, Canada’s immigration minister said. Minister Jason Kenney on Friday said the arrests should deter other migrants hoping to sneak into Canada. “We understand that they … detained over 100 illegal immigrants who apparently were planning on coming to Canada through a [...]
More to the president’s liking DAMAGE to Sri Lanka’s wondrous Sigiriya frescoes—5th-century depictions of lovely women with ample and mostly bare breasts—sent President Mahinda Rajapaksa clambering up to the rock fortress that houses them for an anxious look. Yet contemporary portraits of the barely-clad female form offend the eye of Mr Rajapaksa’s po-faced regime. Since [...]
Rapid changes are taking place at the top offices of Ten Sports which owns the TV rights of Sri Lanka Cricket. Indian media reported yesterday that Ten Sports Chief Operations Officer Peter Hutton will quit the company along with his number two Mark Denton. The two of them were founders of the business alongside former [...]
If your husband is enjoying a secret rendezvous with another woman, don’t run after him with a knife, for the extra-marital affair is a sign that your marriage is a healthy one. That’s the claim of France’s most prominent female psychologist Maryse Vaillant in controversial new book on the effects of infidelity on married life, [...]
The Tamil Nadu government has justified a subordinate court order declaring Sri Lankan minister Douglas Devananda as a proclaimed offender and an absconding accused in a murder case dating back to 1986. State public prosecutor P Kumaresan told the Madras high court on Thursday that the proclamation was made in accordance with law and Devananda [...]
Sri Lanka has settled high cost overdrafts from commercial banks and central bank credit taken to bridge the budget deficit with proceeds of a Euro bond which had contributed to excess reserves in the banking system, officials said. Record excess liquidity in the banking system which topped 80 billion rupees or over 20 percent of [...]
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