By Nirmala Kannangara Transport Minister and SLFP Kalutara District Parliamentarian Kumar Welgama has been maintaining a coordinating office at Bandaragama to meet his party supporters at the cost of the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB), alleges employees. At a time when the SLTB has failed to pay the head office employees their September salary on [...]
Chick Flick Vs Masterpiece Chick flick is slang for a film designed to appeal to a female target audience. Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender, ‘chick flick’ is typically used only in reference to films that are heavy with emotion or contain themes that are relationship-based (though not necessarily [...]
Apparently there is a University Don, who asks his young under grad charges not to read, write talk or study English. I don’t blame him, for complete ignorance of a language (or anything else for that matter) is far better bliss than a nodding acquaintance with it. To illustrate what I mean, I am sending [...]
By Upali Cooray Sri Lanka’s war against Terrorism is a good source for creative artistic expression that would work as stimulants for better understanding about the tribulations the country underwent till recently and to narrow the differences that exist’s to date among Sri Lankans by giving a forceful message to the masses. Film is such [...]
By Raisa Wickrematunge in Vavuniya Less than 500 families in the Menik Farm camp are currently awaiting resettlement according to Kilinochchi GA, R. Ketheeswaran. When asked as to what was causing the delay in resettling these people, she said that the de-mining process was still ongoing and so these families had to wait until their [...]
Life as we know it goes on…..a full stop …soooooooooooo……out of the question! Time out and reminisce those times when immaturity was never considered a no – no, having bad hair was Woaaaaah! and Stevie Nicks was almost every boy’s on-the-wall girlfriend! Sri Lanka’s number 1 hit music station YESFM welcomes you to the world [...]
For The First Time In History”, “Two Of The Greatest Bands Back To Back”, “The Chance Of A Lifetime”! These were some of the publicity blurbs sprouted by Gold FM for the past two to three months which according to the Gold FM management, disc jockeys and presenters was going to be a spectacular presentation [...]
By Roel Raymond Tamil refugee children, who arrived aboard the MV Sun Sea in Canada on August 13 are to begin temporary English-language classes, Postmedia News reports. The British Columbia school district is to undertake the task of providing English education to these children. Having arrived in a crowd of an estimated 490 people, packed [...]
By Mark Ashenden All hail the new king of the courts. Rafael Nadal fell to his knees under the leaden skies of Flushing Meadows last Monday after beating Novak Djokovic to be crowned US Open champion and firmly cement his place in the history books. After two weeks of charming the New York crowds with [...]
Two seemingly unpredictable things happened on Tuesday. The monthly Monetary Board (MB) meeting which was earlier postponed from September 15 to September 24, was, suddenly, without any notice or warning to the market, held on Tuesday instead, while the envisaged policy rate cut of 50 basis points (BPs) as speculated in the lead story on [...]
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