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  • Sri Lanka denies scuttling power devolution

    Sri Lanka denied Wednesday plans to roll back power sharing mechanisms with the Tamil minority despite attempts to stop long overdue elections in the former war-torn north. Technology and Research Minister Champika Ranawaka announced Tuesday plans to present an act in parliament next week to abolish provincial councils and the India-backed 13th constitutional amendment, reports Xinhua. The ...

  • Uganda studying Lanka’s free health system

    Nadira Gunatilleke A delegation from Uganda is in Sri Lanka to obtain first hand experience and for consultations with Sri Lankan health authorities to establish a free health service in Uganda, a Health Ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said the seven member Ugandan team will study how Sri ...

  • French Naval ship here

    The French Naval Ship Jacques Cartier arrived at the Colombo Port on May 22. The ship carries a complement of 53 naval personnel on board and will be docked at the port of Colombo during Vesak celebrations. The ...

  • Sri Lanka leaders son in rugby row

    Sri Lanka's rugby authorities are investigating President Mahinda Rajapaksa's rugby-playing son after claims that he assaulted a referee. One report says Rohitha Rajapaksa has been suspended from the game but the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) denies this. Witnesses said they saw Mr Rajapaksa, 22, physically attack the referee after his side lost a match this month. Rugby is ...

  • Police busts human smuggling ring in Britain France Europol

    Europol on Wednesday said 18 people, mostly Sri Lankans, were arrested in joint police raids in Britain and France on suspicion of being part of a human trafficking ring that smuggled South Asian immigrants into Britain."During the joint operation, 11 suspects were arrested in the UK and seven in France. All persons arrested, except (for) one Dutch national, were of Sri Lankan origin," ...


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The Grudge

The Grudge

Director Takashi Shimizu is so good at generating scenes of escalating dread and tension punctuated by sharp, nerve-rattling, jump-in-your-seat jolts that it's hard to begrudge him the fact that his English-language debut The Grudge is composed of almost nothing but such scenes, making it ... ...

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  • Sri Lanka says no Rolls Royce at CHOGM

    "I’m drawn to cinema because I have absolute faith in its transformative power, in its ability to raise human awareness," says Nandana ...

  • China to lend $580 mln for Sri Lanka development projects

    COLOMBO | Wed May 22, 2013 12:11pm EDT COLOMBO May 22 (Reuters) - China Development Bank Corporation will lend $580 million to Sri Lanka to help implement key infrastructure projects, a government document released on Wednesday showed. The loan will bring CDB's total lending to Sri Lanka to more than $1.4 billion. China's increasing influence in the island nation has stoked ...

  • Sri Lanka to resume refinery on Friday with Oman light crude

    Wed May 22, 2013 9:06am EDT * Oman crude shipment of 1 mln barrels expected on Friday * Refinery built to process Iranian oil, yields low from Omani * Sri Lanka decides to import Murban light - minister * Sri Lanka has been buying Iran oil in mid sea - opposition MP By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, May 22 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's sole refinery, which was closed last week due to a ...

  • Sri Lanka to use summit to showcase developments

    The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday said that it will use a key Commonwealth summit in November to showcase the post-war developments in the ...

  • Welegedara blow for Sri Lanka

    Colombo - Sri Lanka left-arm fast bowler Chanaka Welegedara has been ruled out of the Champions Trophy starting in England and Wales next month with an ankle ...

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