Injuries to top batsmen Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh have forced top-ranked India to name a depleted 15-man squad for the opening test against visiting South Africans in Nagpur from Feb. 6-10. Former captain Dravid sustained a fractured jaw after scoring a century in the second test against Bangladesh in Dhaka while Yuvraj suffered a [...]
Nut Problems A hospital psychologist decided to take his mental patients to a baseball game. He coached his patients with simple cues to avoid unwanted anxiety and social awkwardness. When the day of the game arrived, everything seemed to be going well. As the national anthem started, the doctor yelled, “Up, nuts!” The inmates stood [...]
Audi has once again been named the best brand in the ADAC AutoMarxX image and brand study. Speaking from the Court Church of All Saints at the Munich Residenz where he accepted the prestigious award recently, Audi AG Management Board Chairman Rupert Stadler said, “I’m pleased to accept the Yellow Angel again this year- for [...]
Former Central Bank of Sri Lanka (C.B.S.L.) Governor Dr. H. N. S. Karunatilake (80) died last Sunday. He served C.B.S.L. for over 35 years in different capacities. An economist, Karunatilake was appointed as C.B.S.L.’s Economic Research Director in 1975. He was promoted as C.B.S.L. Deputy Governor in April 1978 and was appointed Governor on November [...]
Fairytales with gruesome twists and macabre endings! These days there are a lot of fairytales being spun, let’s hope they have happy endings like the ones we were accustomed to hearing when we were little. But on further investigation, I found out that the original versions of most of our favourites were extremely gruesome. For [...]
By R. Wijewardene A throng of armed men and a closed road may not look like much. In fact, in Sri Lanka armed men and closed roads are entirely commonplace. However, the STF commandos blocking the entrance to Reid Avenue on Friday afternoon were not ordinary. They were a symbol of the authoritarianism we now [...]
January 28, 2010 Dear Mr. President, Congratulations on your landslide victory which, like most Colombo elites, I was stunned by. Your spokesperson Dr. R. Wijesinghe quite rightly described us as shallow and lacking foresight and the common touch unlike the rural polity who rightly judged your true capability and potential based purely on your good [...]
By Ranee Mohamed The place she calls home was a ramshackle room. But these were four of the poorest of poor living together and thus they had no possessions to clutter the small space. Usually a mother and three daughters will have enough skirts, blouses, and trinkets to clutter a whole home, but for poor [...]
Well it’s all over bar the shouting. The Rajapaksas have returned. In a previous column I compared voting for Mahinda Rajapaksa in the presidential election to opting for being hit over the head with a ten-pound hammer while I suggested that Sarath Fonseka would provide the five-pound equivalent. “Between a rock and a hard place” [...]
An Article By The Asian Human Rights Commission By Basil Fernando On January 26 the election for the position of Executive President was held in Sri Lanka and the Election Commissioner declared the incumbent President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the winner. The common candidate for the opposition, retired General Sarath Fonseka, rejected the results stating that [...]
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