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  • Ship laying up is an opportunity for Sri Lanka

    Lt. Col. Chandana Weerakoon MSc The author is a specialist in Transportation Systems and Management and conducts lectures on Transportation and Logistics at the CINEC Maritime University. Present ship prices have decreased drastically around 80% than in 2008 and around 80% of the operational fleet is laid up due to the slump. It is clear that seafarer opportunities have boomed. The vision ...

  • Fire at Colombo Port

    Subashini Senanayake A fire broke out in the early hours of yesterday morning causing heavy damage to Cargo Warehouse No 1 (Container Freight Station) of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, ...

  • Special trains for Vesak

    Irangika Range Sri Lanka Railways has introduced a special train service in view of the Vesak Week for those travelling to Colombo for the Vesak celebrations. The special services will be in operation on May 25, 26 and 27 from Colombo Fort to Mahawa, Colombo Fort -Rambukkana, Colombo Fort - Aluthgama to Veyangoda, and Maradana to South Kalutara.Sri Lanka Railways Operations Superintendent L.A.R. ...

  • Jetwing Hotels unveils Hotel J for first time in Sri Lanka

    Visiting Sri Lanka on a shoestring budget or planning to travel around the country economically? Most of the time the modern traveler - be they young and independent or older and adventurous - is limited by income, and cash thereby becomes a key determinant when deciding on destinations and accommodation. Hence the reason Jetwing Hotels came up with their latest brainchild of Hotel J ...

  • Sri Lankan defence chief warns against Tamil victory in upcoming polls

    Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday warned the government of dire consequences in case the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won the first northern provincial council election. The defence chief was responding to a statement attributed to Petroleum Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, at Wednesday's post-cabinet media briefing, that the election would be held in accordance ...


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In a scene near the beginning of Basic, John Travolta, who plays Tom Hardy, an ex-Army-Ranger-turned-DEA-agent, is speaking with Col. Bill Styles (Timothy Daly), the commander of an Army base in Panama. Hardy has been brought in by Styles because of his expert interrogation skills. An Army Ranger live-fire exercise deep in the jungle has gone terribly wrong and the only survivors arent tal ... ...

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  • Tension over Sri Lanka Jaffna land

    There are growing tensions in northern Sri Lanka as Tamil people try to prevent the Sinhalese-dominated army from taking over their land. In a new development, villagers have driven out a group of surveyors sent by the authorities. Thousands more are engaged in court action to try to win back land they were displaced from years ago. Sri Lanka's army defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels ...

  • Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka sets self on fire to protest cattle slaughter seriously injured

    A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk identified as Bowatte Indrarathane walks after self immolating outside the sacred Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 24, 2013. Indrarathane allegedly set himself on fire during a protest demanding an end to cattle slaughter, according to Press Trust of India. The monk was alive when he was taken to a hospital. (AP ...

  • Father accidently runs over son while backing up

    A one-year-old child died after accidentally being run over by his ...

  • Sri Lanka Gotabhayas statement reconfirms emptyness in PC model

    While New Delhi and Washington harp on either the 13th Amendment or holding Northern Provincial Elections (NPC) as solutions to the national question in the island of Sri Lanka, a statement coming from SL presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa reconfirms the unworkable nature of the Provincial Council (PC) model in a unitary constitution of the Sinhala state, Tamil political observers in the ...

  • Emirates adding 3 more flights to Colombo

    Emirates, a fast growing airline, said it will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from June 30, with the addition of three more flights per week. The addition of three more services, which will operate between Dubai and Colombo on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays, will increase the number of flights between the two cities to four each day on those days. The additional Dubai-Colombo ...

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