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by By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo A new military headquarters in northern Sri Lanka has been built on the site of a Tamil Tiger graveyard earlier flattened by the army, it has emerged. The construction has come in for...
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, NY has remarked via twitter on reports of Libya's Gaddafi calling President Mahinda Rajapaksa as follows: Kenneth Roth [on twitter.com/KenRoth] "Bad news: BBC reports Libya's Gaddafi called SriLanka Pres Mahinda, known for indiscriminate...
by Tisaranee Gunasekara "When heads of state do not pay attention to the needs of their nation, the people take over”. Turkish Presiden Abdullah Gul (During the February 2011 visit to Iran) “As he launched a series of murderous attacks...
A state-run television station has made an unconditional apology to national cricket team, says the chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), BBC reports. .
The government's chief scientist tells BBC News that officials "got it wrong" by failing to predict the impact of the volcanic ash emergency last year.
Vice captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team Mahela Jayawardene is considering legal action against state owned Independent Television Network (ITN) in response to commentary which implied he was guilty of match-fixing, the BBC has reported today. The report states that a state television broadcast
Sri Lanka vice captain Mahela Jayawardene is considering legal action in response to commentary which implied he was guilty of match-fixing. A state television broadcast suggested Jayawardene deliberately played badly for financial gain in Saturdays cricket World Cup defeat by Pakistan, BBC
Three of the BBC language services are going off air later as a result of cuts to the World Service budget.
BBC News Sri Lankan police have arrested 24 Indian fishermen, adding to the 112 already in custody for allegedly straying into Sri Lankan waters. The Indians were seized by a group of local fishermen and handed over to police....
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “But these were monstrous times. So, naturally Jennie turned monstrous”. Klaus Mann (The Turning Point) Neither President Mahinda Rajapaksa nor his administration can be faulted for the calamitous weather conditions afflicting Sri Lanka. Global warming is a global phenomenon, an environmental malaise to which the entire world (and each one of its people) has cont...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down as president of Egypt, Vice-President Omar Suleiman made the announcement in a brief statement on state TV, BBC reported a short...
Hosni Mubarak V mass uprising. Watch live BBC coverage from Tahrir square in Cairo.
The Galle Literary festival is a haven of civilised values in a country that is no stranger to strife by Robert McCrum Associate editor, The Observer, UK [Click for more pictures] Ever since the Hay festival set up shop overseas...
Hundreds of millions paid to British PR Firm for 2018 Commonwealth Games bid The Indian government spent $ 8.5 billion to host the Commonwealth Games, which turned out to be a national disaster By Frederica Jansz The Sri Lankan government is reportedly paying a top British PR firm about 3 million sterling pounds (Rs. 545,880,000) ...
Efforts are being made to bring hundreds of Indians and Pakistanis stranded in Egypt back home, officials tell the BBC.
In an interview with the BBC Tamil service, Dr Kasippillai Manoharan, father of Ragihar, one of the five students extra-judicially executed by Sri Lanka's military at the Trincomalee beach on January 2nd, 2006, said that Sri Lanka's judicial system is not capable and unwilling to provide justice
By Dr. S. Narapalasingam PART I The baffling moves and actions on the political front of the potent government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, since the war ended conclusively mid May 2009 have been considered discretely by many analysts, ignoring...
by Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai A pictorial update via mobile Yfrog The most companionable of all festivals~Michael Morpurgo~ English Author, Poet,Playwright & Librettist 5th Galle Literary Festival starts despite a call to boycott [click on pictures for larger images]...
The Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian, Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa services will be closed, the BBC World Service announces.
by Gamini Weerakoon Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the deposed Tunisian president was described as being ‘ubiquitous’ by an AP report last week. Like all Third World strongmen he had his picture plastered all over the country. As the second president of Tunisia, he ruled the country undisturbed for 23 years. But like most dictators or strong men of the Third World, the day came when he had to ...
By Sivaramakrishnan Parameswaran Producer, BBC Tamil Service A 1,250-year-old temple has been saved from collapse using "granite stitching" in southern India. The Kailasanathar Temple in the town of Uthiramerur is more than 1,250 years old, according to studies of its...
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey….” — Shakespeare, Troilus And Cressida Impunity is to a country what cancer is to a body; it creeps in unnoticed and spreads with gathering-speed, inexorably annihilating everything healthy and functional in its path. Impunity never completely spares any...
European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli has spoken to BBC News live from on board the International Space Station.
[Click to see more] Reuters: One third of staple rice crop at risk of loss * Supply shock could cause inflation spike By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding across...
European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli speaks to BBC News from on board the International Space Station.
The General Pharmaceutical Council drops charges against pharmacies alleged to have advised people to take homeopathic remedies for malaria, BBC News learns.
Tribute to Lasantha Wickrematunge on Second Death Anniversary By Sunalie Ratnayake A recollection of facts Two elongated years have come into conclusion, precisely as of today (January 8, 2011), since the incongruously horrendous cold-blooded murder of one of the most...
By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo As the people of Sri Lanka grapple with the rising cost of everyday living, the country's huge army has started buying up vegetables from producers. It is then selling them on at fixed prices...
By Kalana Senaratne Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera, President of the Patriotic National Movement (PNM), recently leveled a serious accusation against the LLRC. In an unexpected manner, this has caused some embarrassment, I believe, to both Dr. Amarasekera and Prof. GL Peiris, Sri Lanka’s Minister of External Affairs. The reason for this embarrassment is a peculiar one; for it is not only the n...