SANGAKKARA AND CO. CRASH LAND IN KANPUR »
Daminda Wijesuriya reporting from Kanpur
India exposed the batting deficiencies and lack of application of the touring Sri Lankans to record a crushing an innings and 144 run victory in the second cricket test at Kanpur yesterday. It was one of Sri Lanka’s heaviest defeats in test cricket and the hosts took a 1-0 lead in [...]
Shares up from two week low »
COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lankan shares rose on Friday from an over two-week low, snapping a seventh straight fall as cautious investors bought battered shares in thin trade even as political uncertainty weighed on investor confidence.
The All-Share Price Index of the Colombo Stock Exchange rose 1.01 percent or 28.73 points to 2878.96, from its lowest since [...]
CHANGING CLIMATE, CHANGING LIVES »
Kenyans draw weapons over shrinking resources
Experts fear the conflicts involving cattle, water and land may be just the beginning of climate-driven violence in Africa. At least 400 people have died in northern Kenya this year, the U.N. says.
By Edmund Sanders
November 27, 2009
Reporting from Isiolo, Kenya - Have the climate wars of Africa begun?
Tales of conflict [...]
At Least 39 Dead in Russian Train Derailment »
Police officers stand guard at the site of a train derailment near the village of Uglovka, about 249 miles northwest of Moscow.
BOLOGOVSKY, Russia (AP) — An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others, emergency officials said.
The state-run railway company said [...]
Sri Lanka Presidential Election scheduled for 26 January 2010 »
Milinda Moragoda, Minister of Justice and Law Reforms visited the Vavuniya LTTE ex-combatant Rehabilitations Camps
Milinda Moragoda, Minister of Justice and Law Reforms visited the Vavuniya LTTE ex-combatant Rehabilitations Camps in the company of Maj Gen Daya Ratnayake, Commissioner General of Rehabilitation.
Here Minister Moragoda inspects the conditions of the Camp. Minister reviewed the basic facilities at [...]
Sri Lanka opposition endorses ex-general for president »
By Ranga Sirilal
COLOMBO, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s main opposition party said on Thursday it will back former army chief Sarath Fonseka’s bid in a presidential election, the most serious challenge to President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s re-election campaign.
Authorities issued orders easing security measures, including protection for dignitaries, for the first time since the defeat of [...]
No challenge from common candidates: Rajapaksa »
B. Muralidhar Reddy
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday said he saw no challenge in the so-called common candidate in the calibre of a retired military man or the former Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, in the Presidential election scheduled in the second half of January [...]
At Least 87 Die in Chinese Mine Explosion »
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By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: November 21, 2009
HONG KONG — A gas explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China early Saturday morning killed at least 87 people and left 66 others trapped deep underground, Chinese official media said.
Rescuers waited on Saturday to go down a coal mine to search for survivors after a [...]
Plot to kill General Sarath Fonseka- Report »
Saturday, November 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
(November 21, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) One of the Tamil politicians who is close to the government is said to have brought a women suicide bomber as part of a plot to kill General Sarath Fonseka- the former Chief of Sri Lanka Army, who led the military mission to [...]
Read Fonseka’s resignation letter »
Friday, November 13, 2009 Leave a Comment
Gen. Fonseka Gives 17 Points For Resignation
(November 13, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Sarath Fonseka, who led the war against the LTTE as Army Chief, on yesterday ( Nov. 12) Thursday, afternoon sent his resignation letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa possibly to join [...]
