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  • Tamil Nadu wants Sri Lanka to return Katchatheevu

    Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has reiterated that Katchatheevu, the fishing islet has to be retrieved back by India in an endeavour to provide a permanent solution to the problem of Indian fishermen. In a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today, Jayalalithaa has recalled the various instances in which fishermen were harassed for fishing near Katchatheevu, which is often ...

  • Sri Lankan president to visit China

    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse will pay a state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping between May 27 and 30, an official said Monday. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the announcement at the daily press briefing Monday, reported ...

  • Rights liberties threatened in Sri Lanka says rights body

    Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Tamil Tigers, Human Rights Watch said Monday. This week marks the fourth anniversary of the brutal civil war's end. Since the end of the 26-year-long civil war, the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has resisted taking meaningful steps to investigate and prosecute ...

  • Jayalalithaa renews demand for retrieval of Kachatheevu

    Voicing concern over attacks on Indian fishermen, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today asked the Centre to take urgent steps for the retrieval of Katchatheevu islet, ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974, besides redrawing the International Maritime Boundary Line.The 1974 Agreement signed between India and Sri Lanka had determined Katchatheevu as a part of Sri Lanka, and it was ceded by the Indian Government ...

  • WomanÂ’s body found on rail track

    The body of an unidentified woman has been found near the 179th post on the Colombo-Badulla railway track.The body of the woman, believed to be around 60 years of age, has been placed in the mortuary of the Badulla Hospital. Badulla Police have commenced investigations into the ...


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That Hamilton Woman [DVD]

That Hamilton Woman [DVD]

Declared by Winston Churchill to be his favorite film, Alexander Kordas That Hamilton Woman (released in the U.K. as Lady Hamilton) is both a sharp-edged propaganda film about the necessity of an aggressive national defense and a weepy romantic tragedy, all of ... ...

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  • LTTE man flees Lanka caught en route to Nairobi

    Crime branch officers on Sunday arrested a 35-year-old Sri Lankan, who was an operative of banned outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), when he was attempting to catch a flight to Nairobi. Interestingly, the accused, an electronics engineer, initially told cops that he entered India by air, but after sustained interrogation, revealed that he took a boat from Sri Lanka and got off at ...

  • STF seize ÂWalla PattaÂ’ worth Rs 200 million 6 arrested

    Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel recovered 13,499 kilograms of Wallapatta herb valued at around Rs 200 million to be smuggled out of the country and arrested 6 suspects including 2 Indian nationals during a raid in Kolonnawa.The arrests were made last night while the suspects have been handed over to Wellampitiya Police for onward action, police spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardena ...

  • Sri Lankan tour operators explore Bali with eye on joint ventures

    With the picturesque Bali Island in Indonesia, launching a massive tourism promotion, Sri Lankan tour operators were exploring the hitherto largely unexplored market, with a focus on joint ventures.A Business Seminar entitled "Bali Tourism Prospects Reaching Out To South and Central Asian Market", held at the Grand Kuta Bali Hotel last week, revealed that over 1300 Lankans had visited ...

  • Protesting Sri Lankan workers threaten to cripple all sectors govt unfazed

    Sri Lanka's trade union alliance which has organised today's token strike against electricity tariff hike is confident of crippling the public, semi-government and private sectors. However, the Sri Lankan government yesterday said it was confident that the strike would be a flop.Co-Convener of the Co-ordinating Committee, for the Trade Union Alliance (CCTUA), Wasantha Samarasinghe said ...

  • Minister requests Lankans remaining in Saudi illegally to return

    The Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Minister Dilan Perera requested Sri Lankans who are in Saudi Arabia illegally to use the grace period granted by the Saudi government and return to the ...

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