Moon sends a bolt from blue »
G.S. MUDUR New Delhi, Aug. 29: India’s first moon mission ended prematurely today with engineers losing radio contact with Chandrayaan-1 after months of struggle to cling on to a troubled spacecraft threatening to slip beyond control. The Indian Space Research Organisation lost contact with the Rs 380-crore spacecraft 10 months into its intended two-year mission [...]
“I have not failed” – Ranil »
“We have lived through a lifetime of this issue and we must see that the next generation does not go through the same” In a candid interview with The Sunday Leader, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe reiterated his position on the need for a political solution to settle Sri Lanka’s long standing ethnic problem. He also [...]
IGP tries to white wash the police »
By Nirmala Kannangara At a media briefing held at Police Headquarters on Friday (28), IGP Jayantha Wickremaratne told the media that the recent criticism against the police was not fair. He complained that the media was taking undue pains to bring recent police torture into the limelight but was ignoring the good work done out [...]
SRI LANKA :::’Charge or release’ LTTE suspects »
CJ Asoka de Silva (UN photo) CJ says that it is ‘inappropriate’ to continuously detain the LTTE suspects The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has ordered the authorities to file charges or release the Tamil Tiger suspects in custody. Chief Justice (CJ) Asoka de Silva ordered the Attorney General (AG) to take a policy decision [...]
SRI LANKA:44,000 to be re-settled soon, says Colombo »
B. Muralidhar Reddy COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government is gearing to re-settle in the next two weeks 44,000 of the nearly 3 lakh war displaced, said senior officials here on Wednesday. These displaced persons, housed in relief camps on the outskirts of Vavuniya town, are to be sent back to their places of residence in [...]
Prisoner of war records go online »
Prisoners of War Details of POWs held in Germany, Austria and Poland will be published Records of more than 100,000 British prisoners of war captured during World War II are being published online. The ancestry.co.uk lists, accessible for a fee, were compiled by the German military authorities under the 1929 Geneva Convention. They contain details [...]
Indian arrested over ‘six wives’ »
By Prachi Pinglay BBC News, Mumbai An Indian man has been arrested in the city of Mumbai for forgery, cheating and polygamy after he married six women over the past two years, police say. Tushar Waghmare, an engineer with Air India, allegedly kept all his wives in the dark about their counterparts. He was arrested [...]
A trip to Sri Lanka’s Tamil country »
A sudden phone call gave the BBC’s Sri Lanka correspondent Charles Haviland rare access to the the war-battered north of the island. He saw Tamils languishing in a vast refugee camp – but also scenes of ethnic harmony at a Catholic shrine. Pilgrims at the shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, Sri Lanka You do [...]
