All Island U19 Schools Sixes Tournament The All Island Under 19 Invitation Schools Six – A – Side Cricket Tournament 2011 was conducted by the Maristonians Sports Association, under the guidance of the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association. Sixteen leading schools cricket teams from North, South, Central, Western and North Western provinces participated in the [...]
By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe – Attorney-at-Law The West won the world not by superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non Westerners never do.’ Samuel. P. Huntington as quoted by J.B. Muller in his dissertation Anglophiles, Eurocentric Arrogance and Reality [...]
KIA Motors (Lanka) Ltd. has announced plans to invest an estimated Rs one billion over the next three years to expand service infrastructure in Sri Lanka following phenomenal sales and the growing demand for, and its vehicles’ popularity. Sales of KIA SUVs ‘Sorento’ and ‘Sportage’ exceeded 1,500 units in the first six months of the [...]
Fears some JVP cadres might prepare for an armed struggle By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The government is keeping a close watch on the JVP’s internal crisis due to the fear that some of the JVP cadres might go underground and prepare for another armed struggle. The dissident extremist group of the Marxist JVP led by [...]
Rugby World Cup 2011 By Dinouk Colombage Australia put behind their shock loss to Ireland last week as they emerged easy victors over a spirited USA team. Eleven tries in total, including a hat-trick to Adam Ashley-Cooper saw the Wallabies run away 67-5 winners over the Eagles. Australia opened the scoring early on in the [...]
Unexpected Guests El Presidente travelled to the Big Apple and went to the You En. He took some time off to go visit the Clin Tonne Worldly Initiation. Of course, photo ops were aplenty with dear Bill. But there was another lady there who El Presidente wasn’t too thrilled to see, Unfortunately, he had to [...]
Rs 110 Billion Project By Faraz Shauketaly On par with other countries in South Asia – albeit stymied by a 30-year break in development – is the spanking new, partially completed, Southern Expressway. Many times over its envisaged cost, steeped in financial and technical controversy, leaving many questions on the cost factor and the [...]
By Dinouk Colombage England’s Carling Cup went into its third round this week, with all the top English teams in action. Traditionally this tournament has seen the top teams competing in Europe fielding second string teams, and this week it was no different. Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool had little trouble seeing off their [...]
Roshan Abeysinghe It wasn’t the best result for the Sri Lankans though a draw of that magnitude was more the order of the day than the catch up cricket they played in the first two tests. The Australian series which should have been won has concluded as yet another “Missed Opportunity” for Sri Lanka. It [...]
Says cable an attempt to tarnish Archbishop’s image By Jamila Najmuddin The Archbishop office in Colombo has strongly rejected a leaked Wikileaks cable which allegedly reveals how Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith lobbied the US government against international pressure on accountability for war crimes. The cable written on October 2, 2009 recounts details of a meeting [...]
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