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“As you know the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) will take place in Geneva in November, 2012. It is through this the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) will examine the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. The government wants to score marks by announcing that they were able to re-settle all the IDPs who were ...
- Menik Farm And Beyond… (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt.: All IDPs Will be Resettled By Year End (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s infamous Menik farm IDP camp to shut down later this month (Category: Breaking News)
- Only 10,956 IDPs remain unsettled (Category: Breaking News)
Frederica Jansz, the editor of one of the last remaining "outspokenly anti-government" English newspaper published in Colombo, was sacked by the new businessman owner when Jansz refused to "curb her style of writing and compromise her credibility," as demanded by the owner, BBC
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
Twenty-five Sri Lankan asylum seekers returned home on Thursday after their applications were rejected by Britain, creating more discussion on the country’s treatment of returnees. The flight carrying eight Muslims, 13 Tamils and four Sinhalese arrived at the international airport at midday. According to reports, once they landed the group was questioned by the Police ...
- Instead of PSC, we need statesmanship (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government accused of avoiding people`s issues by stirring Geneva issue (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka can handle its own problems - China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka can handle its own problems - China (Category: Breaking News)
Queen guitarist and animal welfare campaigner Brian May and Adam Quinney, the vice president of the National Farmers' Union, debated the issue of badger culling on BBC Breakfast.
Sri Lanka proud hosts of popular and shorter form of most entertaining tournament played in Asia for the first time; 20-teams, 20-day cricket fiesta ICC World T20 kicks off tomorrow Mega boost for tourism as 500 players and officials alone to take up 9,000 room-nights; hundreds of overseas fans, global sponsor officials and media to ...
- ESPN STAR Sports bags multi-year broadcasting rights for Sri Lanka Premier League (Category: Business)
- ICC launches World Twenty 20 Sri Lanka 2012 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to host World T20 2012 (Category: Sports)
- ICC announces WT20 warm-up schedule (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s diamond-swallowing story took an surprising turn Tuesday as police revealed the 1.5 carat stone gulped by Chou Wan, 32, at a gem show was fake, and that the real thief is still out there with the stolen precious stone valued at $13,000. Wan was taken to Colombo National Hospital on Saturday where X-rays ...
- Stone, Chester (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- Stone, Chester (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- Stone, Chester (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- Stone, Chester (Category: USA, South Dakota)
Foreign media have reported that the Sri Lankans have responded in a fitting manner to the world through the election results. This has explicitly displayed the rapport between the Government and the people. The foreign media attributed the Government’s development programme and the resettlement process to the election victory. All India Radio mentioned that President ...
- Aussie fashion 'wearable' (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- FM calls for immediate inquiry in to diplomat�s conduct (Category: Breaking News)
- President briefs foreign media (Category: Breaking News)
- Media drenched (Category: Breaking News)
This year's dreadful weather has cost rural Britain at least one billion pounds in lost revenue, according to an investigation by Countryfile on BBC One.
How focused and efficacious are the current infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka, executed through a public investments programme (PIP)? Take for instance the Chinese funded Norochcholai coal fired power plant, built after obtaining a commercial loan from China, and its subsequent breakdowns resulting in power cuts that will stifle growth and earnings, on top of ...
- Investment Deals (Category: Business)
- Power Projection (Category: Business)
- India tops investments in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- BOI web site removes reference to ‘No FDI nationalisation’ (Category: Business)
ONE of the stars of a much-loved BBC documentary is an endangered South Australian.
Owned and operated by Sri Lanka’s largest blue chip conglomerate, John Keells Holdings PLC and positioned as a star value addition at John Keells Hotels Group, ‘Nature Trails’, the dedicated Wildlife and Adventure Tourism division of Chaaya and Cinnamon Resorts, bagged the award for the ‘Best Nature and Wildlife Service Provider’ at the Sri Lanka ...
- Cinnamon Lodge and Chaaya Wild reign supreme at Sri Lanka Tourism Awards (Category: Business)
- Wildlife parks generate Rs. 300 m revenue annually (Category: Business)
- Chaaya Wild Yala, an epic adventure begins (Category: Business)
- Leisure laughs! (Category: Business)
Emmanuel Ray is a London-based presenter and socialite. He won Fashion Icon of the Year award at Fashions Finest Awards UK, 2011. He was named Britain’s First ‘It Boy’ by BBC entertainment correspondent Paul Conway. He regularly contributes on line and on air and hosts a variety
- The fashion for turning junk into art (Category: Technology)
- When fashion meets technology (Category: Technology)
- Old fashion has a new inspiration (Category: South Australia)
- 3 questions to ask before you buy new clothes - CNET (Category: Technology)
General Secretary of the Lanka Teacher Services Union has told the Criminal Investigations Department that he is not a teacher although he holds the Post of General Secretary. An enjoining order has been issued on the Lanka Teacher Services Union preventing it from staging protests with the involvement of Grade Five students. General Secretary of ...
- Trade unionist files HRC complaint against Police (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankan court bans education sector trade union official from organizing agitations (Category: Breaking News)
- Education sector trade union in Sri Lanka calls on government to annul the Grade 5 Scholarship E... (Category: Breaking News)
- A/L questions pasted on school walls? (Category: Breaking News)
The BBC's library footage of Neil Armstrong's moon landing - which was missing, presumed lost forever - has been found by a viewer, who recorded it from television.
“Where is it written that you can be beaten to death? Which article is it written thus? I am not afraid of anyone. I don’t care who you are. Come and shoot me. I am not afraid. People need justice and the truth. The people who beat my son up are animals. My heart burns. ...
- Practical steps to meaningful reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lasantha Wickrematunge and the role of journalism in a rotten political culture (Category: Breaking News)
- Loss of judicial independence can be traced to the 1972 Constitution – Justice Wigneswaran wh (Category: Breaking News)
- The Fonseka release, Rajapakse strategy and international pressure (Category: Breaking News)
In three weeks, Spikes Asia, the regional Asia-Pacific Awards and Festival for creative excellence in advertising and communications, will be opening its doors for three days of learning, inspiration, content and networking. With a record number of entries and delegates expected, Spikes Asia 2012 is set to be an exciting and outstanding event. Unmissable world ...
- Leo Burnett Sri Lanka’s Subhash Pinnapola, first Sri Lankan on Spikes Jury (Category: Business)
- Biggest-ever Spikes Asia 2012 kicks off in Singapore (Category: Business)
- Entries at Spikes Asia reach all-time high (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s first Spikes Asia metal won by Leo Burnett (Category: Business)
REUTERS: US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday. Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the family said in a statement, just two ...
- Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, dies aged 82. (Category: Breaking News)
- US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies (Category: Technology)
- VIDEO: Memorial for first man on Moon (Category: Technology)
- China puts its first woman astronaut into orbit (Category: Business)
Thaandavam is an upcoming Tamil action thriller movie directed by AL Vijay. The music of the movie is by GV Prakesh. It stars Vikram and Anushka Shetty in lead roles. Amy Jackson, the 2008 British Miss Teen and Daughter of BBC Radio Show host Alan Jackson also plays a main role in the movie. The ...
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Maryland)
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Iowa)
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Maine)
Reuters: Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran 19.58 seconds for victory in the 200 metres at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday while Yohan Blake equalled the third fastest time ever to win the 100 in 9.69. The effervescent Bolt performed the air guitar as he was presented to the crowd before predictably dominating the ...
- Bolt ready to prove 2012 naysayers wrong (Category: Business)
- Bolt to race in Rome in preparation for Olympics (Category: Business)
- “No worries” as Bolt blocks out bad starts (Category: Business)
- Bolt sets year’s fastest time for 100 (Category: Business)
A Norwegian court has found that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is sane and sentenced him to 21 years in jail. Breivik admitted killing 77 people and wounding more than 240 others when he bombed central Oslo and then opened fire at an island youth camp last year. He insisted he was sane and refused ...
- Court finds Norwegian mass killer Breivik sane (Category: Business)
- Norway killer on trial: “I would have done it again” (Category: Business)
- Norway mass killer bent on turning trial into “circus” (Category: Business)
- Norwegian court sentences mass killer Breivik to 21 years in prison (Category: Breaking News)
BBC Weather's John Hammond looks at Arctic sea ice trends
Reuters: Kevin Pietersen’s woes continued on Sunday when he was bowled for a first-ball duck playing for county team Surrey having been dropped by England for the third test against South Africa for sending provocative text messages. Pietersen sent texts criticising his England team mates and staff to South Africa players. The South African-born batsman ...
- Pietersen wants to dominate world cricket (Category: Business)
- Pietersen left out of tour to India (Category: Business)
- Kevin Pietersen misses World T20 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pietersen not in England’s provisional T20 squad (Category: Business)
Human rights activists in Sri Lanka say the government must seek UN help in investigating serious violence in jails which has resulted in the deaths of two Tamil prisoners.
BBC: Thousands of people from India’s north-eastern states have fled the southern city of Bangalore amid fears that they will be targeted in attacks. Indian Home Secretary RK Singh blamed the mass exodus on “rumour mongering”. He insisted there was was no threat
- Bangkok Airways connects Bangalore and Thailand (Category: Business)
- Wall Street Journal spotlight on Brandix’s global push via regional foray (Category: Business)
- ME tourists list London as favourite destination (Category: Business)
- Two Sri Lankans held at Bangalore Airport for smuggling sea cucumbers (Category: Breaking News)
Scientists involved in ebola research tell the BBC that a commercial vaccine to prevent the onset of the deadly infection may never be developed.
The BBC's Charles Haviland reports from Putumattalan, the scene of fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger militants three years ago.
Four years ago in Beijing, the Americans, who had previously come first in all but one Olympics since they boycotted the 1980 Games, were stung when they were knocked off the top of the overall podium by the Chinese. “China’s big challenge is in swimming and track and field. There are so many medals at ...
- Phelps quits the pool with unchallenged record (Category: Business)
- Britain’s golden haul is best since 1908 (Category: Business)
- China to test superpower claims on foreign soil (Category: Business)
- S. Korea, Japan vie for best of rest in Asia (Category: Business)
London (ANI): A man from Birmingham has bought the running spikes worn by Usain Bolt in the Olympics during the 100m heats. Walton Wilkins from Bordesley Green, paid an undisclosed fee for the footwear which Bolt used on Saturday ahead of Sunday’s final. Sports memorabilia collector Wilkins said he was “very chuffed” to get them. ...
- Bolt ready to prove 2012 naysayers wrong (Category: Business)
- Usain Bolt Falls Short In 300m World Record Attempt (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic legends back Blake to upset Bolt (Category: Business)
- Imperious Bolt blazes to sprint double-double (Category: Business)
Playing off India against China and vice versa‘The Great Game’ was the name given to a diplomatic and military tussle between the British and Russian empires during the time of the British Raj in India for influence over what constitutes today’s central Asian states. Commonly known as the ‘Stan states,’ they were located along the ...
- Fearing political pressure, Sri Lanka president wants to avoid trade integrations with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is no pearl on China’s string: President (Category: Business)
- From defence sales to electricity grids, India upgrades Lanka ties (Category: Business)
- In bid to counter China, US ramps up effort to boost military ties in Asia (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Olympic judges and referees came under fire on Wednesday with one fighter accusing them of “a fix”, another successfully appealing a loss and even boxing great Lennox Lewis questioning some of their calls. Teymur Mammadov of Azerbaijan (R) and Australia's Jai Tapu Opetaia fight during their Men's Heavy (91kg) Round of 16 boxing ...
- Teen wins first US women’s boxing gold in Olympic history (Category: Business)
- Boxer Frazier, Ali’s greatest foe, dies (Category: Business)
- Muhammad Ali trainer Dundee dies at 90 (Category: Business)
- Pacquiao showdown still no closer for Mayweather (Category: Business)
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