President tours landslide hit Matale : Alternate land for victims

President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised alternate land for those who lost their homes due to landslides in the Matale district. During a visit to flood and landslide affected areas in the Matale district on Saturday, the President told residents, the government will provide suitable alternate lands in safe locations for those whose property has been totally […]



Tony Greig stood by Sri Lanka, says Arjuna Ranatunga

“Not only was he a great admirer of Sri Lanka cricket, he also loved our country,” Ranatunga said, adding cricket world would be poorer without Greig, Colombo: Remembering Tony Greig, who passed away after losing his battle with lung cancer, Sri Lanka’s World Cup winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga said that former England captain and celebrated […]



‘Bomba Sira’ killed

An underworld figure known as ‘Bomba Sira’ was assaulted to death early today by an unidentified gang on the railway track near the Ratmalana railway station, police said. […]





Delhi gang rape victim dies in Singapore hospital

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The gang rape victim whose assault in New Delhi triggered nationwide protests died of her injuries on Saturday in a Singapore hospital, potentially threatening fresh protests in India where her case is a rallying point for women’s rights. […]



Procedure constitutional – Bogollagama

The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed by the Speaker to probe charges against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranaike was a laid down procedure found in the constitution. The Standing Orders are created under the constitution by the legislature in dealing with certain specific areas for which the legislature’s functions have been determined by the creators of […]




CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE SAYS MICROBES PRESENT IN RED RAIN STILL ALIVE MOVING LIKE SPERM AND UNUSUALLY HIGH IN A SILVER ARSENIC COMBINATION

By Walter Jayawardhana Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of  the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology in the United Kingdom said the microbes present in the red rain water that had been collected in the Sevanagala area in Sri Lanka when seen through the optical microscope are still alive and are with tails moving  like sperm and high in […]




Three Buddhist monks killed in horror Christmas smash in Scotland

By Janaka Alahapperuma The British Buddhist community was shocked on Christmas eve when they heard the sad news of three Buddhist monks have been killed in a head-on car crash on the A68 in the east of Scotland. The two car accident happened about ten miles south of Edinburgh and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south […]





TSUNAMIS AND POLITICAL TSUNAMIS

It is eight years from the day the Boxing Day tsunami struck, and many Sri Lankans though they remember, do not particularly want to reminisce about the death and destruction caused by those deathly waves. But, it’s the upside of the aftermath of this calamity that has to be remembered, to capture a little bit […]



Australia strike early, Sangakkara passes 10,000

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s pace attack scythed through Sri Lanka’s top order to leave the hosts reeling at 79-3, but master batsman Kumar Sangakkara celebrated his 10,000th test run shortly before lunch on the opening day of the second test in Melbourne on Wednesday. […]



Journalist meets with tragic end

A twenty one-year-old female journalist on her way to work, was killed this morning, when she was knocked down by a lorry that went out of control in Colombo 7, police said. […]