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| Qatar seeks stakes in CSE, Kalpitiya and other property |
Qatar Holdings, the investment arm of the state-owned Qatar Investment Authority, is interested in various development projects ranging from a stake in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), the Kalpitiya Tourism Zone (KTZ), the Colombo Commercial Property (CCP), and a host of sites in the South for hotel projects, according to official sources.
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| US Marines grilled over Taliban urination video |
Two American Marines pictured in a video urinating on the corpses of militants in Afghanistan have been questioned and two other suspects will be grilled soon, a US military official said. |
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| Onward and up |
It’s Sri Pada season! Now would be the time to pull over a sweater (or two), slip on your trekking shoes and scale the fourth highest mountain in Sri Lanka. |
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| Lankan Humpty together again |
It’s time to take stock. The chips are down. The coffers are empty. An underperforming team. A new cricket management at the helm groping in the dark pondering as to how they are going to put Humpty together again. |
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| EDITORIAL |
| Ties with India vital but not at any price |
Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna arrives in Sri Lanka on an official visit tomorrow. He is flying in almost under the radar because Indo-Lanka bi-lateral relations, which have highs and the lows from time to time, are right now, out of the focus. Not that it needs to be the central point of Sri Lankan life at all times, but at this very moment, it has been overcome by numerous other issues.
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| COLUMNS |
| Krishna visit likely to propel devolution talks -- Political Column |
For more reasons than one, the coming weeks remain crucial for President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
With a comfortable two thirds majority in Parliament and a separatist war over, his UPFA government has still been floundering. |
| Impunity in north, east, south and west -- Focus on Rights |
The continuing failure of Sri Lanka's institutions of justice is well demonstrated in the most recent Views of the Geneva based United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN Committee) calling upon the Sri Lankan ....
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| He goes where the Tiger roams |
Animation, admiration and passion blend together as he talks not only of their uniqueness but also their idiosyncrasies, as a father would lovingly talk of his sons and daughters.‘Genghis’ would race with rippling muscles into a lake, grab a sambhur watering there, dunk it and then kill it, says this ‘tiger man’ of India, Valmik Thapar, describing the “unique behaviour” of this great hunter which he had watched and admired oft times. |
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The death of King Rajasinghe of Sitawaka
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The mountainous
environment of Sri Lanka is best seen in the Central highlands where the
highest mountains are located. Mountains are
an important source of water, energy and
biological diversity. |
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A touch of TLC at birthing
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The excruciating pain comes in waves, reaching a peak and ebbing. Amidst the haze of pain of the contractions, until the joy of holding the newborn, how many women yearn for a tender touch on the brow, a whispered word of consolation in the ear and a hand to grip while pushing down hard during birthing. |
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