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08/17/2010
You’re shivering in the sharp cold of a winter’s night outside of the hottest club in town. You try your hardest to attract the attention of the doorman. You smile and say clever things to your friends in a raised voice to look more deserving than everyone else in line. Eventually — if you’re lucky — he unclips the velvet rope, the door swings open and you’re swept into the party. He refastens the rope. Now everyone behind you is a sucker.
08/16/2010
Aug 16, Colombo: Recently convicted ex-Army Commander of Sri Lanka General (Retired) Sarath Fonseka has been indicted on 41 counts, informed the Attorney General's Department to the Colombo Chief Magistrate Rashmi Singappuli as the case against Fonseka was summoned.
08/17/2010
Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that the army did all it could to avoid civilian casualties in the war with Tamil rebels and blamed the United Nations as failing to halt the rebels’ use of civilians as human shields. Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who led the army to victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam last year, justified the troops’ conduct in the final days of the fighting. Speaking on civilian deaths, into which Western countries and the United Nations had called for an independent inquiry, Mr. Rajapaksa said the government fought with a zero-casualty policy and most of those killed in the rebel-held area were separatists. Mr. Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother, was testifying in Colombo before the state-appointed Commission on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation. Rights groups have questioned panel’s credibility.
08/17/2010
The man who oversaw Sri Lanka's defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels has said he believes more than 6,000 of them were killed in the final stages of fighting.
08/15/2010
A fully fledged, 100-bed hospital of international standard named Northern Central Hospital is being launched in northern Jaffna as a Board of Investment (BOI) approved project, According to Dr. Keerthi Sri Edirisinghe, the consultant engaged in designing of the new venture, this will provide a boost to the medical sector in the region which is slow in moving into the north compared to other service sectors like banks, insuranceand finance companies.
08/17/2010
following is a live transcription of statement by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to the Lessons Learnt And Reconcilation Commission. Accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
08/16/2010
MAELIYA, 16 August 2010 (IRIN) - Sri Lanka has launched a massive community prevention campaign targeting dengue fever using billboards, TV spots and even schoolchildren.
08/17/2010
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) occupying Jaffna peninsula continues to refuse to open the key roads which it had closed for public use despite repeated requests by governemnt departments, NGOs and public organizations, sources in Jaffna said. The same situation prevails in allowing uprooted families to settle in their properties appropriated by SLA as High Security Zone (HSZ) in Valikaamam North. It is alleged that the conflict of interests in these two matters between Northern Province Governor, Major. Gen. G. A. Chandarasiri and SLA Jaffna Commander, Major. Gen. Mahinda Kathurusinghe is the cause of the issues.
08/18/2010
The Canadian Tamil Congress is “deeply concerned” that Ottawa’s rhetoric about the arrival of migrants aboard a suspected people-smuggling ship could “undermine” ongoing investigations and spur “more than a backlash of words” against the Canadian Tamil community.
08/17/2010
Former Deputy Minister of Highways Mervyn Silva left Parliamentary proceedings after interrupting an Opposition MP during oral question time in Parliament today.