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  • Team India would not focus on individual Lankan players Dhoni

    Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday said Sri Lanka is a dangerous side, and hence his team would not focus on individual players. "They are a dangerous side, hence we cannot focus on individual players. If you look at their top six or seven, they are good. But yes, the duo has done really well and will always pose a threat," he said, when asked whether Kumar Sangakara and Mahela ...

  • Sri Lankans will target Indian bowling Jayasuriya

    Former captain Sanath Jayasuriya said Sri Lanka will target the Indian bowlers during the Champions Trophy semifinal slated for Thursday at the Sophia Gardens here. "Their (India) bowling isn't the best, so we need to have a very good plan. The goal was to make the semifinals. Anything can happen now," Jayasuriya told the BBC. Jayasuriya, who led Sri Lanka when it shared the Champions Trophy ...

  • 80 Sri Lankans held while trying to migrate to Australia

    At least 80 Sri Lankans were detained by the navy Wednesday for attempting to illegally migrate to Australia, the navy said. The trawler in which the detainees were travelling was intercepted by the navy. They were handed over to police for investigation, Xinhua reported. On May 30, as many as 52 Sri Lankans were detained, and later handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department. The ...

  • Sri Lanka calls for Tamil refugees in Australia to return

    Sri Lankan external affairs minister has asked the Tamil refugees in Australia who fled the nation's bloody civil war to come home. The Tamils had quietly slipped into Canberra for talks on combating people smugglers. According to the Age, G.L. Peiris said Sri Lanka was now in a perfectly stable condition, with an economic boom in the once devastated northern Tamil regions. He, however, ...

  • Sri Lankan media code threatens free speech

    A new media code proposed by the Sri Lankan government contains overbroad and vague language that could have a severe and chilling effect on free speech, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. On June 17, the mass media and information ministry officially proposed a Code of Media Ethics that would apply to print and electronic media, including the Internet. The proposed code comes at a time when ...


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Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht [DVD]

Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht [DVD]

Dreadful is one of those words in the English language that has virtually lost its original meaning. Now used commonly to describe something that is "terrible" or "bad" ("That was a dreadful book, don't read it"), its primary meaning is "causing or inspiring fear or dread," and it is in this sense that I describe Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht as a thoroughly dr ... ...

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  • Dhonis men practice ahead of semi-final clash against Sri Lanka

    The Indian cricket team with a clean record in the preliminary stages of the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy in England had a strenuous session at the nets in Cardiff ahead of Thursday's semi-final clash against Sri Lanka. With this practice session yesterday, the in form Indian players are confident of facing the Sri Lankan team. The players were busy in enhancing their skills at Glamorgan County ...

  • Tata Coffee opens extraction unit at Tamil Nadus Theni

    Bangalore, June 19 : Asia's largest plantation firm Tata Coffee Wednesday unveiled its premium extraction plant at Theni near Madurai in Tamil Nadu to process the beans into freeze dried powder for exports to global ...

  • Sri Lanka will fight - Mathews

    Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews on Wednesday vowed that his fighting team were prepared to put recent history behind them when they face India in the semifinals of the Champions ...

  • Sri Lankas Mathews vows fight against India

    CARDIFF, United Kingdom (AFP) - Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews on Wednesday vowed that his "fighting team" were prepared to put recent history behind them when they face India in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy.Thursday's match in Cardiff is a repeat of the 2011 World Cup final, which India won by six wickets in Mumbai despite a superb century from Sri Lanka's ...

  • Teams fret more over rain than familiar opponents

    at The Oval , there were plenty of non-Australians cheering them on, just so that the cricket world will be spared yet another India-Sri Lanka ODI. In the last five years, the two sides have met a mind numbing 44 times in ODIs, and will face off again in a tri-series in the Caribbean starting next week. The teams are so familiar with each other and their strategies that MS Dhoni said: "You ...

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