Ferrari unveiled their F10 for the new Formula One season last week, confident the radically redesigned car would be much more competitive than last year’s inconsistent version. At a lavish ceremony at the company’s road car factory, with workers building commercial vehicles in the background, Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa helped whip off [...]
Rohit Bal and Tarun Tahiliani of Indian fashion design industry will show at HSBC Colombo Fashion Week 2010, which is scheduled from February 5-7 . Colombo Fashion Week (C.F.W.) encourages participation of international and regional designers as it goes with its objective of uplifting the Sri Lankan fashion designers through interaction with the same. Regional [...]
It’s been hard to avoid the “we told you so” comments ever since the election results started coming over the TV Wednesday morning. We were reading about democracy at dawn when our phone kept ringing and some of the cheer squad leaders of the incumbent regime were on the line. “Where are you now? Under [...]
By Michael Hardy Climate change skeptics around the world were thrilled by the recent revelation of a mistake in the 2007 report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the report that earned its authors, together with Al Gore, a Nobel Peace Prize. The report had included the alarming claim that due to rising [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema JVP Leader Somawansa Amarasinghe said the results of the presidential election needed to be analysed based on the incidents that took place in the country following the end of the war. He said the holding of staggered provincial council elections culminated in the holding of the presidential election. Amarasinghe told the [...]
And so Mahinda Rajapaksa has got the mandate he sought – a second term, amidst allegations of hi-tech rigging. This columnist feels Rajapaksa may be a tad disappointed that he could not get into the “60s” as his predecessor Chandrika Kumaratunga did in 1994 (63%). Sixteen years later, having actually delivered the peace Chandrika promised [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema SLFP (M) Wing Leader and Co-media Spokesperson for General Sarath Fonseka, Mangala Samaraweera charged that software/paper rigging finally changed an approximately 1.5 million vote victory for General Sarath Fonseka into a 1.8 million majority for President Rajapaksa. He said this “is perhaps the first successfully carried out software/paper rigging in the [...]
By Michael Hardy What was he thinking? That was the question on election day last week when General Sarath Fonseka admitted that he was unable to cast a ballot for himself because his name was not on the registration list. Taking advantage of this surprise revelation, President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s campaign team immediately called a press [...]
President records convincing 1.8m majority Opposition challenges result; alleges massive rigging No coup – mere fabrication The victory confirmed by the Elections Commissioner indicated that Mahinda Percy Rajapaksa was elected with quite a convincing majority. The margin of the votes received by him indicates the second highest ever polled by any president at the polls. [...]
By Ranee Mohamed Photos by Asoka Fernando Sandhya Eknaligoda and her sons, aged 15 and 13, look out onto the pathway of their humble home. Their minds are laden with sadness and their eyes are filled with unshed tears. But it isn’t the massive monthly payment installments on the house of approximately Rs. 35,000 that [...]
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