37 days ago by Sujoy Das

Santanu Sanyal KOLKATA, JAN. 4: Tea Board of India has decided to take a fresh look at the prevailing price sharing formula which is supposed to ensure a remunerative price to small tea growers as well as a fair return to bought leaf factories. The present formula, modelled after the one at Sri Lank ...

37 days ago by Lameduck

Sempre a margine della vicenda OMSA, ripresa anche da Debora Billi, vorrei segnalare su Facebook l’iniziativa di boicottaggio Mai più OMSA, ma soprattutto l’intervista ad un responsabile di produzione di Calzedonia Group, altro colosso dell’intimo made in Italy, pardon, Sri Lanka, che ho trovato per ...

37 days ago by Sri Lanka Brief

''On the whole, the LLRC final report presents the government with inconvenient truths that lay bare the factual inaccuracies and inadequacies of its own post war policy trajectory and narrative. This coming from not from the UN's Darrusman report but from our own CR (Bulla) De Silva report, compris ...

37 days ago by Sri Lanka Brief

Dr. Kumar David - Assessing how the international community is reacting, the LLRC Report is the strategic key for the regime. For the government, what the locals think is irrelevant. Not only Rajapaksa and his ministers but just about everybody in the country knows and has known for a long time how ...

37 days ago by Sri Lanka Brief

''The LLRC has recommended that if Sri Lanka is to be rebuilt on a solid foundation, there must be a tri-lingual policy with Sinhala, Tamil and English given equal place. The Commission has recommended that reference to race be removed from all official documents except at a national census. This wi ...

37 days ago by indi

This is pretty good. Inspired by Shit Girls Say, this is Shit Sri Lankan Mothers Say by jehanr. It's pretty funny, and kinda accurate.

37 days ago by Sri Lanka Brief

The body of a man allegedly abducted by an unidentified group on Tuesday night was found in Grandpass this morning. Police media spokesman Ajith Rohana said the body was found at around 6.30am on Ferguson Road in Grandpass. Read more »

37 days ago by Sri Lanka Brief

On the 2nd January a man by the name of Mohammad Nistar was abducted by a group who arrived in a white van from San Gartikulam at Puttalam. According to reports at the time of the abduction Mr. Nistar was traveling in a three-wheeler. Sometime later his body was found with bullets wounds to the head ...

37 days ago by indi

BMICH during the Deyata Kirula exhibition. I welcome the new developments in Sri Lanka (roads, ports, airports, buildings, malls). Dev isn’t a zero sum game and that’s part of it. It’s important, however, to invest as heavily (or more) in education and health, which is what sustained the country eve ...

38 days ago by EOSnap

Sri Lanka- December 31st, 2011 This FAPAR image shows the vegetation index of Sri Lanka. The Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) is the fraction of the incoming solar radiation in the Photosynthetically Active Radiation spectral region that is absorbed by a photosyntheti ...