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Economist seized in Colombo
“Business community and the tourists are among the major buyers and we also distribute it to airlines and to the hotel industry” Sri Lanka authorities have detained the latest edition of The Economist magazine, its distributor in Colombo said. “We were not allowed to clear our copies of the Economist on Friday by the customs officials,”...
August 24 2010 / No comment / Read More »“Time to shed old wars and ideologies’’Karu calls for opposition unity
August 21, 2010, 7:24 pm Mr. Karu Jayasuriya, the UNP’s Deputy Leader, yesterday made an impassioned appeal for opposition forces...
August 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »They have already planned to jail me before the next Parl. Sessions -Gen. Fonseka
In his first interview after the military Court decision -The Defense secretary was clueless until KP was brought to Katunayake (Lanka-e-News,...
August 20 2010 / No comment / Read More »New port to usher industrialization: MR
Monday, 16 August 2010 02:52 President Mahinda Rajapaksa releasing the water into the Hambantota Harbour Basin yesterday while...
August 17 2010 / No comment / Read More »President ratifies stripping of General Sarath Fonseka
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, on Friday night signed a proclamation to cashier retired General Sarath...
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Travel
Chelsea Clinton ’set for wedding of century’
2010-07-31 22:07:17 RHINEBECK, New York After an intensely secretive build-up, Chelsea Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky were tying the knot today at a lavish bash outside the quaint town of Rhinebeck, rural New York. Media have flooded the area for one of the year’s biggest US society events. A carnival atmosphere took over Rhinebeck in the final hours [...]...
Aug 1, 2010 / More »
Business
Sri Lanka inflation slows to 4.3-pct in July
July 30, 2010 (LBO) - Consumer prices in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo rose 4.3 percent in July 2010 from a year earlier, down from 4.8 percent in June, the fifth straight monthly fall, the government statistics office said. But the 12-month moving average, which is a lagging indicator spread over two years and has been on [...]...
Jul 31, 2010 / More »
Worldnews
UK troops launch Operation Tor Shezada in Afghanistan
30 July 2010 By Ian Pannell BBC News, Helmand A soldier from the Brigade Reconnaissance Force prepares for Operation Tor Shezada Military chiefs said Operation Tor Shezada got off to a “successful” start Hundreds of British soldiers have launched an operation against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. Operation Tor Shezada began early on Friday morning in [...]...
Jul 30, 2010 / More »
Sports
Pak Police “failed Sri Lanka team” during terrorist attack
Saturday, 31 July 2010 08:48 Senior Pakistan police officers have been heavily criticised in a report for being ill-prepared, poorly equipped and incompetent in their efforts to prevent a terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team bus last year. Calling one officer a lazy coward, Shabbar Raza Rizvi of Lahore High Court identified more than [...]...
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