The surviving gunman from Mumbai’s 2008 terror attacks has appealed the death sentence in India’s Supreme Court. Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab filed his appeal through prison authorities. The 2008 attack saw over 165 people killed along with nine other attackers. Qasab had been found guilty by Indian courts for having waged war against India, multiple [...]
By Abdul H. Azeez On August 4, 2006 17 members of Action Contre La Faim (ACF or Action Against Hunger) were brutally shot and killed in Muttur in the midst of the war between the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE. Their young, promising lives were lost in an instant as each of them were [...]
By Dinouk Colombage The Sri Lanka Cricket Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Tournament will conclude in Colombo today. For those who do not know it actually started last Thursday in Colombo. Devoid of any international stars or publicity the tournament has seen a significant absence of spectators. For weeks the Sri Lanka Premier League was a hot topic [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The latest illegal construction to take place in the Sinharaja Forest Reserve has been initiated by UPFA parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, according to propaganda posters put up in the Ratnapura District on a road construction project. AbeywickremaThe poster displayed in many parts of Ratnapura states that a 5 km road from Imbulkanda [...]
A Warning Sign to the Government The Mahinda Rajapaksa administration that moved to the North during the final weeks of the local government election campaign in the area was unable to muster the support of the Northern voters. Now considered as the great Rajapaksa failure, the local government elections has also sent out a warning [...]
By Sumaya Samarasinghe Growing old and suffering the ailments which come along with age is unfortunately something no one can escape. 12 years ago in 1999, which was declared the UN Year of the Older Person, Former Ambassador Manel Abeysekera founded the NGO Forum On Ageing (NFOA) which aims at bringing together individuals and institutions [...]
Projects Outside Tender Calls Bureaucrats and technocrats should not bow down to the dictates of foreign suppliers’ credit terms, an economist said. Dr. Lalith Gunaruwan, senior economist, Colombo University giving a lecture on transportation on Wednesday said that procurements made on a supplier’s credit basis or on a bilateral or on an unsolicited basis is [...]
England vs India Second Test at Trent Bridge India were slightly ahead on a day of fluctuating fortunes in the second Npower Test against England on the opening day of the Second Test match at Trent Bridge on Friday. India dismissed England for just 221 after winning a crucial toss under cloudy skies and then [...]
A few weeks ago I appeared on Al Jazeera’s The Stream. The subject was Sri Lankan Tamils and they introduced the programme with all the usual war footage from years ago. Before my connection kicked I think I managed to make one point – that I am not defined by my race or the war, [...]
by Frederica Jansz President Mahinda Rajapaksa has probably heard the proverb ‘set a thief to catch a thief.’ Which is perhaps why he picked business tycoon Harry Jayawardena as Chairman of the loss making Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). The results of the “Petrol Fiasco” is in all probability the worst embarrassment and humiliation CPC has faced [...]
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