While
Scotland Yard assistance is being sought to find the
killers of Jaffna Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj,
the Police have also made significant progress in
the investigations.
The government has turned down a request by the Tamil
National Alliance to reopen the A 9 highway so that
the body of the slain parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj
could be taken to Chavakachcheri for the funeral on
Wednesday, The Sunday Times learns.
There
is no reason why Colombo, Galle and Jaffna cannot
revert to Kolamba, Gaalla and Yahapane, except that
the political will to bring about such change is still
missing.
Surgeon
Conal Austin has just finished a 14-hour stint saving
lives. And he's still smiling. "I have the greatest
job in the world," he says. "I get to fix
people's hearts."
Today is War Memorial Day – the day
commemorating the end of World War I. Here
Air Force personnel are seen rehearsing the
last post for the ceremony to be held today
at the War Memorial in Viharamahadevi Park.
Pic by J. Weerasekera
Sri
Lanka’s business community is widely expecting
adjustments in this week’s budget to the VAT system,
a move that could raise taxes, costing more to the producer
and in turn to the consumer.
Tsunami affected beneficiaries
in five divisional secretariat divisions-Kuchchaveli,
Trincomalee Town and Gravets, Muttur, Kinniya and Eachchilampathu
in Trincomalee district recently exhibited their products...
For some people the
word strategy is just a prehistoric relic that bears no
importance in the contemporary business life. Mintzberg,
Porter, Schein, Hamel – even ...
Just
thinking about the present context of local cricket
my memory goes back about two decades when we watched
a bloody western of the “Dollar Series”
the last of which was called –THE GOOD,...
Ragama CC tightened their grip over Bloomfield after
having a set back in the morning session of play on
day two of their Premier League cricket encounter played
at Reid Avenue yesterday.
Though
she does not celebrate Christmas, M. Gunawthi and her
fisher family of Batheegama would have never had the
faintest notion that on December 26 2004 they would
end up as homeless refugees as victims of their provider
– the sea.
There
is a reason clichés are clichés,
and it's this – more often than not –
why they're true. There does tend to be a fire
where there's smoke (or at least a very poorly
maintained vehicle)...
Prince
Jagathpala's forces found it difficult to face
the enemy. But they continued to fight, without
retreating. As time passed, his army began to
fight very violently. ...
Young
and upcoming director and scriptwriter, Charith
Kiriella enters cinema with 'Uthuru Sulanga',
a film on a pathetic incident during the separatist
war in North East Sri Lanka.
A
new book by a father and daughter duo explores not
only the wonder of butterflies but also their journeys
of five years.
There
is no reason why Colombo, Galle and Jaffna cannot
revert to Kolamba, Gaalla and Yahapane, except that
the political will to bring about such change is still
missing.
Surgeon
Conal Austin has just finished a 14-hour stint saving
lives. And he's still smiling. "I have the greatest
job in the world," he says. "I get to fix
people's hearts." 
