Sunday, 05th October 2014 By Camelia Nathaniel India is one of the world’s most corrupt countries. When the Indian courts sentenced Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, to prison on September 27, 2014, Ind ...
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Chinese sailor Zheng He’s Lanka voyages far from friendly
Sunday, 05th October 2014 From Kapila Bandara in Hong Kong View(s): China’s charm offensive in Asia and elsewhere, leveraging its soft power to pursue its own interests, especially to project a likable image of ...
Sustaining the boom in tourism to achieve targets
Sunday, 05th October 2014 View(s): Tourism is booming. There has been a progressively increasing trend in tourist arrivals since 2010. The target of 2 million tourists in 2015 and 2.5 million in 2016 is ambitio ...
‘Mr. Modi, TNA is a LTTE’s proxy’ –Anandasangaree
Monday, 6th October 2014 The Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) Secretary General, V. Anandasangaree, in a letter written by him to Indian Prime Minister NarendraModi, has stated that the TNA being a proxy of the LTTE ...
Yarlpaanam awaits homecoming of Yal Devi
Sunday, 05th October 2014 By S. Rubatheesan Indian officials happy to be part of northern line project View(s): After a lapse of 24 years the Yal Devi will once again be back on track all the way to Jaffn ...
Old Moon Bastion in Galle Fort turned into art gallery
Monday, 6th October 2014 By Dasun Edirisinghe An inner chamber of the Moon Bastion. Moon Bastion of the Galle Fort The Ministry of National Heritage had launched a project to convert the 300-year-old Moon Ba ...
Tourism boom ticking
Monday, 6th October 2014 First 9 months arrivals cross 1.1 m mark with 22.4% growth 2014 so far has seen 100,000 plus arrivals monthly except May; September arrivals up 17% Arrivals from China near 100,000 milestone; a ...