Host nation’s poor display to come under the spotlight
Cricket South Africa (CSA) bosses are to assemble to discuss the country’s failure to progress beyond the group stage of the Champions Trophy.
The Proteas were beaten in two out of their three Group B games by Sri Lanka and England to crash out at the first hurdle [...]
The Hindustan Times newspaper said the Communist Party of India, popularly known as the Maoists of India have borrowed the idea of child conscription to their army from Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
According to an item published by the Hindustan Times they have imitated the Tamil Tigers by recruiting children as small [...]
At least 75 people have been killed and thousands more trapped under flattened buildings in a powerful earthquake off Sumatra island on Wednesday, Indonesian officials said.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced the death toll at a news conference, hours after the 7.6-magnitude quake hit off the coast of the town of Padang on Wednesday.
Thousands of people [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday it would hear an Obama administration appeal defending part of the Patriot Act, which has been criticized by civil liberties groups for giving the government broad powers.
The justices agreed to review a U.S. appeals court ruling that struck down as unconstitutionally vague a law that makes it a [...]
Who are the world’s best and worst lovers? A new poll of 15,000 women found German men to be the worst because of their “smelly odor” with English lovers coming in a close second because they “let women do all the work.”
The poll, done by global research site www.onepoll.com, asked women from 20 countries [...]
The United Nations on Tuesday issued its strongest criticism yet of Sri Lanka over its continued internment of 250,000 people who fled fighting in the final stages of the island’s separatist war.
Walter Kaelin, a representative of the United Nations secretary-general, said civilians held in tightly-guarded camps should be granted freedom to ensure that the island [...]
A magical spell was cast on the people who were present at J.W Marriot on Monday evening where the cast & crew of Eros International’s upcoming family entertainer ‘Aladin’ directed by Sujoy Ghosh, came together to launch the music of this eagerly awaited film.
Gracing the music launch was Big B himself, Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, [...]
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today criticised Tamil Nadu Chief M Karunanidhi for his statement on grant of citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, alleging it was a “desperate bid” to appease the remnants of the LTTE.
In a statement, Swamy alleged that “he (Karunanidhi) is seeking to provide them (LTTE) a sanctuary in India.”
Swamy said [...]
All Haj pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh will be medically examined and screened for the presence of symptoms of the disease at embarkation points in the state before boarding the flights.
Mohammad Owais, Chief Executive Officer of the Haj Committee of India, in his letter dated September 9 to the Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Haj Committee, has [...]
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a poll posted on the social networking site Facebook that asks if President Barack Obama should be assassinated.
The Huffington Post has a screen shot of the poll.
It asks, “Should Obama be killed?” The possible answers are “yes,” “maybe,” “If he cuts my health care” and “no.”
“We are aware of [...]
September 26th 2009 saw an altercation erupting between Internally displaced persons (IDP) “detained” at the Menik Farm IDP camp at Chettikulam and members of the Sri Lanka Army deployed in the area.
While the defence ministry spokesperson Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara and the media center for national security (MCNS) have provided “official” versions of what had supposedly [...]
Former national skippers Arjuna Ranatunga, Hashan Tillakaratne and Marvan Atapattu will be among the cricket legends to represent Sri Lanka at an international masters tournament to be held in the West Indies.
Asanka Gurusinghe, Russel Arnold and Ravindra Pushpakumara have also been contracted to the Sri Lanka team by the organisers for the tournament to [...]
The government is aware that there are trained and formerly active members of the LTTE among the IDPs and these persons pose a risk not only to the IDPs with whom they are intermingled but can also can cause destabilization and chaos amongst civilians elsewhere in the country, Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights [...]
Disappointed with the lack of support from the west at a crucial time in its fight against terrorism, Sri Lanka has successfully bonded with new friends. Vital support from a range of countries including Iran, China and Libya has helped Sri Lanka scoff at the big stick wielded by western countries.
“Many European countries started cutting [...]
