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  • Emirates set to add more Sri Lanka flights

    Emirates Airline has announced plans to increase capacity on its services to Sri Lanka from June 30, with the addition of three more flights per ...

  • No attempts to arrest UNP MPs - Police

    Police today said that there is no attempt to arrest parliamentarians of the United National Party (UNP) in connection with the ...

  • Sri Lanka hails Indian housing assistance

    COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has welcomed a whopping Rs 1,372 crore Indian housing assistance programme to build around 4000 homes in the country's eastern province. The housing assistance programme is one of the largest grant assistance projects implemented by India outside the country. Sri ...

  • Bus topples injuring 15 in Welimada

    At least 15 passengers were injured and hospitalized after a bus veered off the road and toppled in Balagala, Welimada this morning. Police said a private bus traveling from Pannalawela to Welimada was involved in the accident which occurred at around 6.30am today.The wounded persons have been admitted to the Welimada Hospital for ...

  • The Elders slam Sri Lanka for lacking reconciliation

    'The Elders', a council of retired global leaders led by Desmond Tutu has slammed Sri Lanka, based on its report, for lacking post-war reconciliation. They also expressed their disappointment over its slow pace of improvement in allowing "proper media reporting". "The ongoing persecution and disappearances of human rights activists, journalists and government opponents ...


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Hobson's Choice [DVD]

Hobson's Choice [DVD]

David Leans film version of Harold Brighouses 1915 play Hobsons Choice opens as if it were another entry in Leans series of expressionistic Dickensian adaptations. Lean and cinematographer John Hildyard set a moody atmosphere of shadows and dark corners, giving us a forlorn t ... ...

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

    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 ...

  • All Share Price Index crosses 6500 mark

    The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange crossed the 6,500 mark a short while ago. The index has gone up by over 30% since July 2012, according o market ...

  • Man held with 14 illegal firearms

    Navagattegama Police have arrested a suspect along with 14 illegal locally manufactured firearms. The arrest was made at around 8.30pm last night after police received information that the suspect, a resident of Kuruketiyawa in Navagattegama, uses the weapons to frequently hunt wild animals. Navagattegama Police are conducting investigations to uncover who had manufactured all the fire ...

  • Devolution Sri Lankas defence and security

    by Dr Dayan Jayatilleka ( May 23, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Prof G.H. Peiris in his latest response (‘The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment’, The Island Midweek Review, May 22-23, 2013) to my article in The Island of 15th May 2013, argues that the distribution of ethnicity renders the district rather than the province the more suitable unit of devolution if ...

  • Low turnout in Sri Lankan strike reflects no confidence in the unions and opposition

    Despite growing opposition among workers to President Mahinda Rajapakse's assault on living standards and democratic rights, there was only limited participation in a one-day general strike on Tuesday. The low turnout expressed the deep distrust among broad layers of workers in the trade unions and official opposition parties, which called the strike action.The stoppage was limited to a ...

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