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Military training : Children in tears with n food, toilets or work

Military training : Children in tears with n food, toilets or work »

The new entrants to universities who have been forced to follow a military training at military camps had nothing but to listen to President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech on the first day of the so called...

May 25 2011 / No comment / Read More »
“Hundreds of soldiers put at risk… Fled to America in fear of the war, asked for money at the Presidential election” – Gota exposed in the High Court

“Hundreds of soldiers put at risk… Fled to America in fear of the war, asked for money at the Presidential election” - Gota exposed in the High Court »

A lot of information about Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s knowledge on war, fearlessness and discipline were exposed at the Colombo High Court during the controversial White Flag case. Making his dock statement, former Army Commander...

May 25 2011 / No comment / Read More »
panel report does no good -KP

panel report does no good -KP »

Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, who succeeded Prabhakaran as the LTTE leader has said that the UN Secretary General’s panel report on Sri Lanka wouldn’t help any reconciliation and rather it would disturb reconciliation. In an...

May 25 2011 / No comment / Read More »

World

Indians ‘deserved’ Mumbai attacks, court told »

Indians ‘deserved’ Mumbai attacks, court told

A Chicago businessman charged with providing support in the planning and coordination of the 2008 Mumbai attacks said the Indian people got what they deserved, a court heard Tuesday. “They deserved it,” Pakistani-Canadian suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana said upon hearing of the attack, according to...

May 25 2011 / No comment / Read More »

U.S. makes mistake on Green Card lottery »

U.S. makes mistake on Green Card lottery

The U.S. State Department on Friday said it mistakenly told more than 22,000 people that they had won a special U.S. visa lottery due to a computer glitch, and that the drawing would have to be redone. The news dashes the hopes of those who...

May 15 2011 / No comment / Read More »

Gaddafi: You can’t get me »

Gaddafi: You can’t get me

Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim has denied an Italian report that Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi has left Tripoli. The Libyan leader himself says in an audio recording that he’s alive and “in a place where you can’t get me.” It’s been two weeks since the...

May 14 2011 / No comment / Read More »

Sports

Upul Tharanga tested positive for doping »

Upul Tharanga tested positive for dopingSri Lankan opening batsman Upul Tharanga has been tested positive for a banned drug during the concluded World Cup last Month. Tharanga was a leading...

May 25 2011 / No comment / Read More »

Weakened bowling concerns Sri Lanka »

Weakened bowling concerns Sri LankaFour changes to a winning Sri Lanka team, only one of them injury-enforced, created a brief flurry of concern among their supporters before the World Cup...

May 19 2011 / No comment / Read More »

Sangakkara first active intl. cricketer to deliver Cowdrey lecture »

Sangakkara first active intl. cricketer to deliver Cowdrey lectureFormer Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will become the first active international cricketer to deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on...

May 17 2011 / No comment / Read More »
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World

Indians ‘deserved’ Mumbai attacks, court told

Indians ‘deserved’ Mumbai attacks, court told

A Chicago businessman charged with providing support in the planning and coordination of the 2008 Mumbai attacks said the Indian people got what they deserved, a court heard Tuesday. “They deserved it,” Pakistani-Canadian...

May 25, 2011 / More »

Local

Military training : Children in tears with n food, toilets or work

Military training : Children in tears with n food, toilets or work

The new entrants to universities who have been forced to follow a military training at military camps had nothing but to listen to President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech on the first day of the...

May 25, 2011 / More »

Opinion

After bin-Laden and Prabaharan

After bin-Laden and Prabaharan

There are gross and ugly similarities, and commendable differences, between the behaviour of Americans and Sri Lankans after killing OBL and VP. It is good to ponder the issues, whichever country one’s provenance....

May 25, 2011 / More »

Business

Dialog and Mobitel announce LTE trials

Dialog and Mobitel announce LTE trials

Sri Lankan cellco Dialog Axiata has launched a pilot of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network technology in the Colombo Fort, Colombo 2 and Colombo 3 districts of the capital, and...

May 10, 2011 / More »

Health

Paracetamol poisoning on the rise in Sri Lanka

Paracetamol poisoning on the rise in Sri Lanka

A survey carried out by the National Hospital, Sri Lanka has found that the number of people falling ill as a result of paracetamol poisoning is on the increase and need urgent preventive...

May 25, 2011 / More »

Tech.

Dialog and Mobitel announce LTE trials

Dialog and Mobitel announce LTE trials

Sri Lankan cellco Dialog Axiata has launched a pilot of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network technology in the Colombo Fort, Colombo 2 and Colombo 3 districts of the capital, and...

May 10, 2011 / More »

Sports

Upul Tharanga tested positive for doping

Upul Tharanga tested positive for doping

Sri Lankan opening batsman Upul Tharanga has been tested positive for a banned drug during the concluded World Cup last Month. Tharanga was a leading run-maker for Sri Lanka during the World Cup...

May 25, 2011 / More »

Entertainment

Poonam suggests Paris for her ‘show’

Poonam suggests Paris for her ‘show’

Model Poonam Pandey, who has threatened to do a full Monty for the Indian cricket team if the men in blue win, switched off her cellphone on Saturday when India won the World Cup. Sources...

Apr 3, 2011 / More »
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