Cabraal granted bail in case filed by monk

Strong winds expected later today

The Department of Meteorology has warned that strong winds may be experienced in most parts of the country today. It said that the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) (Northern and Southern hemispheric winds convergence Zone) is currently over Sri Lanka. As a result showers or thundershowers will develop over most parts of the island particularly during the afternoon and night. There may be temporary localized fairly strong winds during thundershowers. The general public have also been ad

20 Apr, 2012

Photos of U.S. soldiers prompt condemnation

From the?White House?to the American Embassy in?Kabul, American officials rushed to distance themselves from the actions of U.S. soldiers who posed for photographs next to corpses and body parts of Afghan insurgents. Two photos of incidents from a 2010 deployment were published Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times. In one, the hand of a corpse is propped on the shoulder of a paratrooper. In another, the disembodied legs of a suicide bomber are displayed by grinning soldiers and Afghan police. Se

19 Apr, 2012

SLBC Director killed in accident

A Director of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) was killed and six others were injured following an accident in Anuradhapura this morning. The police said that the van in which the SLBC employees were travelling collided with a lorry killing SLBC Director Nurania Hassan. According to the police the SLBC van was headed to Jaffna when the accident took place at Rambewa in Anuradhapura.

19 Apr, 2012