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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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • Sri Lankan smallholders abandon tea for cinnamon

    Sri Lankan tea smallholders, who account for nearly 70 per cent of Sri Lanka's tea production, said they wanted to shift to planting cinnamon as they were incurring huge losses due to the non-availability of fertilizer and the recent wage hike. Several tea smallholders have already made the shift. Two members of the Tea Factory Owners' Association said that their fertilizer go-downs ...

  • Kelaniya PS Chairman assaulted

    The Chairman of the Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha, Prasanna Ranaweera has been admitted to the Kiribathgoda Hospital following an alleged assault which took place this morning, Ada Derana reporter ...

  • Sri Lanka pile up 425 India 280

    Thilan Samaraweera made an unbeaten 137 as Sri Lanka piled up 425 in their first innings against India on the second day of the third cricket Test here ...

  • UN intervenes in land issue in Sri Lanka

    Head of the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Agnes Asekenye-Oonyu, on Tuesday flew to Palaly, where she discussed the issue with Security Forces Commander, Jaffna, Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe. Asekenye-Oonyu was accompanied by the deputy head of the mission, Mark Prasopa-Plaizier. Authoritative sources ...

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