Britain’s relations with Sri Lanka have taken a nose-dive after breakaway LTTE rebel leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias ‘Karuna Amman’ was arrested near London and found to have entered the United Kingdom on a Sri Lankan diplomatic passport issued by its Foreign Ministry and containing bogus bio-data.
For more than a decade they had thought she was dead. So it was a happy and tearful reunion indeed for the family of N.G Mallika when she returned to her motherland last week after 16 long years, having gone to Saudi Arabia as a housemaid in 1991. 
The 2008 budget drew a mixed bag of reactions during an exclusive panel discussion convened by The Sunday Times FT but the general consensus of the business community was that it’s a ‘traditional’ budget with hidden taxes.
“Enchanted - a journey through the wild” a book of rare wild life photographs will be launched together with an exhibition of photos from November 16 to 18 at the Harold Pieris Gallery of the Lionel Wendt.
Compiled by Gehan Rajapakse, Namal Kamalgoda, Palitha Antony and Sarinda Unamboowe, “Enchanted”. 
Like any other country in the Indian sub-continent the Sri Lankans are also a nation who is cricket crazy. At the same time, people in this tiny cricket loving nation are highly literate and what is written or given in frozen action on the subject is quickly devoured with great enthusiasm and that has been a great passion of them. 
Pakistan announced plans to lift its state of emergency within one month and allowed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto to leave her villa following a day under house arrest, as the country sought today to restore its battered image at home and abroad.
The first test against the Australians is in its second day as I write and the battle is on. Australia has piled on a 500 plus score and we are two down with three days to play. Most reports say the Aussies have a stranglehold on the game but I would dare to say it is excitingly poised. 
Residents in Myanmar's main city Yangon are divided over the prospects for change after a meeting between opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an official of the junta which has ruled for the past 45 years.
The Nobel peace laureate, on Thursday....
SriLankan Airlines launched a book titled 'Milestones on our Journey', on the achievements of the National Carrier and the challenges it has faced over the last decade. The first copies of the book were presented to dignitaries of the country's four religions - Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity - at ceremonies in Kandy and Colombo on November 5 and 6.
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