Deputy Minister of Media Shantha Bandara resigns

Movie shot in Sri Lanka among best action movies from Hollywood’s golden age

The Bridge On The River Kwai, a movie shot in Sri Lanka and released in 1957 has been rated among the top 10 action movies from Hollywood’s golden age. In the movie,?Colonel Nicholson, a British Prisoner of War (POW), is forced to build a bridge for the Japanese. Soon, an escaped American officer returns, looking to blow up the bridge. IMDb has rated the movie at number 3 among the 10 best action movies from Hollywood’s golden age. Besides the explosions and the bullets, the dialogue in the m

17 Nov, 2021

Govt eyes $10-billion technical textiles exports in 3 years

Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said it was time for India to target a five-fold rise in its annual technical textile exports in there years to $10 billion. After decades of policy bias toward cotton-based textile products, the government recently made concerted efforts to boost manufacturing of technical textile items through a Rs 10,683-crore production-linked incentive scheme. Under this, incentives will be provided for five years for incremental production in 40 man-ma

17 Nov, 2021

India launches crackdown on child sexual abuse with Sri Lankan links

India has launched a crackdown on child sexual abuse which has been linked to Sri Lanka and a number of other countries. According to reports some of the accused are based in countries like Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Canada, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, the US, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt and the UK. In a nationwide coordinated crackdown on crime related to online child sexual abuse material, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in India registered 23 separate cases against 83 acc

17 Nov, 2021