Bathiya and Santhush, one of the biggest musical acts to hit the Sri Lankan musical scene since the 70s, will perform on the eve of UAE National Day at Global Village on Wednesday. The duo who have been mixing English and Sinhalese lyrics in their originals will be performing at the World Culture Stage from [...]
After reading through these pages, those who produce carbonated drinks are likely to be outraged, while those who consume them die slow deaths. Where does the truth lie? Read on. Medical research comes up against the drinks lobby. Fascinating, yet terrifying, reading. Carbonated drinks…immediate relief from thirst. Or a death trap? Medical research is frightening [...]
More than five hundred Tamils gathered at London’s Heathrow airport to protest as Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa landed from Colombo. As Sri Lankan Airlines flight UL509 carrying Mr. Rajapaksa, who is on a private visit, landed at about 9:50 p.m. UK time, protestors braved Britain’s unusually cold weather to call attention to his government’s [...]
A Sri Lankan government minister has said today that the controversy regarding the WikiLeaks documents substantiated the fact that the United States has led an international operation against Sri Lanka. Housing and Construction Minister and leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF) Wimal Weerawansa told the media today that the US wanted to defeat the [...]
Sri Lanka is to turn a vast jungle area that was a base for the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels into a wildlife sanctuary, 18 months after the end of island’s bloody civil war, the government said Tuesday. The jungles of Mullaittivu, from where the rebels launched attacks for decades until they were defeated by government [...]
Sri Lankan cricket selectors, no matter who gets in there, have done it again. They picked a band of ageing horses like they always did, this time for the Asian Games that concluded in China yesterday. The result, not even a bronze medal won. Cricket followers may have been too pre-occupied with the current home [...]
Pakistan police on Tuesday claimed they have detained the main suspect allegedly involved in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team here last year. The middle aged suspect, identified as Qari Abdul Wahab alias Qari Umer, was caught from the Raiwind area of Lahore for masterminding the attack on the visiting Sri Lanka cricket [...]
Sri Lanka’s captain Kumar Sangakkara replaced Indian great batsman Sachin Tendulkar to be on the top of the International Cricket Council’s Test batsman rankings. Sangakkara snatched the first place from Tendulkar as he scored a tremendous century against West Indies. He smashed a fantastic 150 score in Sri Lanka’s first innings in the second Test [...]
The gazette notification outlining ministry subjects has stated that Kumara Welgama, who was re-appointed as the Transport Minister, has been assigned only the loss making Sri Lanka Railways Department and the Sri Lanka Transport Board. The National Transport Commission, Department for Motor Vehicles and several other institutions affiliated to the transport sector, which were previously [...]
It is reported that Former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremenayake has declared ‘war’ against the use of the Executive Presidency powers to shunt and undercut the main matured Ministers by the use of the word ‘seniors’ . The UNP Colombo District M. P. PC Wijayadasa Rajapakse in Parliament stated , creating such ’senior Minister’ posts are [...]
Sri Lankan police have arrested and bailed seven people accused of appearing in pornographic films. Police said the seven had to make statements and pay a surety before being released. They said those arrested were all suspected of featuring in locally made pornographic movies. The faces of people accused of taking part were earlier published [...]
The United States wanted its diplomats at the UN headquarters to find what the global agency was thinking about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, new documents released by the whistle blowing website Wikileaks have revealed. Some of the cables released by the website pertain to queries made by the US state department about [...]
Pakistan on Monday offered specialized training, closer collaboration and sharing of expertise in counter-terrorism to help Sri Lanka better train its security forces to thwart any future terrorist threat.“We wish to strengthen our cooperation in ridding our countries of this menace and we can do it by learning from experiences of each other,” Foreign Minister [...]
Susanthika Jayasinghe the Sri Lanka’s silver medal winner at the Olympics who faded from athletics and went into retirement had decided to come back to the athletic field., according to reports reaching Lanka e news. Susanthika who is now 35 years old and a mother of a child won the bronze medal in the 200 [...]
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