Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

The high 8.4% economic growth enjoyed by Sri Lanka in the third quarter is considered the fourth best in the world according to an analysis by stock broking firm DNH Financial.

It said that Sri Lanka judging by impressive third quarter GDP data has bucked the downward trend in the global economy. As per its analysis Sri Lanka is only lagging behind the world economic powerhouse China whilst Sri Lanka has also remained consistent as against other emerging economies in the top four rank.

Even though our teams sucked, it was fun to scream along with Pakistanis !!

Enjoy !!

While accused with war crimes, Sri Lanka ranked 8th place among the worlds most generous nation..

take that LTTE supporters !!!

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just for the weekend ..

Former LTTE amrs procurer and on time leader in a revealing interview with an Indian Newspaper has claimed that around May 16 or 17, 2009 the UN and a Western government had asked if some LTTE leaders were ready to leave the country and if so they could send a ship and go somewhere.

Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam (alias Selvarasa Pathmanathan, Kumaran Pathmanathan, or simply KP) is head of the now decimated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). A wanted man in several countries, including India, in connection with Rajiv Gandhi`s assassination, KP had an inside view of the organisation that was once the most-dreaded terrorist organisation in the world before Al Qaeda upstaged it after 9/11. Among other things, he was considered LTTE`s arms procurer, though he now denies it. He also had insights into the thinking of LTTE`s supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran.

PRINCE William makes sure everything is shipshape as he helps Kate Middleton aboard.

These previously unseen snaps show the heir to the throne larking around on a sailing holiday with his future wife, her sister Pippa and some pals in 2006.

They soaked up the sun aboard Episode One the 700,000 yacht belonging to Kate`s uncle Gary Goldsmith off the coast of Ibiza.

Other shots show Kate looking on adoringly as Wills does backflips off the deck into the Med.

And there are a few of Pippa in a skimpy white halterneck bikini showing off the pert posterior that threatened to steal the show at her sister`s wedding on April 29.

Pakistani Urdu TV channel Geo News quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying that the world`s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed in a search operation launched by the Pakistani forces after a Pakistani army helicopter was shot down in the wee hours of Monday in Abbotabad, a mountainous town located some 60 kilometers north of Pakistan`s capital city of Islamabad.

At about 1:20 a.m. local time a Pakistani helicopter was shot down by unknown people in the Sikandarabad area of Abbotabad. The Pakistani forces launched a search operation in the nearby area and encountered with a group of unknown armed people. A fire exchange followed between the two sides.

A Saudi man married four women at the same time just to prove his ex-wife was wrong when she told him no other woman would marry him.

The Saudi woman had thought her 23-year-old ex-husband was bluffing when he told her he would marry four women at the same night to show she was mistaken, the Arabic language daily Alwatan reported on Wednesday.

He fulfilled his promise and married four women at the same time and in one night just to vex his ex-wife, the paper said.

It quoted the unidentified man from the southwestern province of Asir as saying he divorced his first wife because their marriage was a total failure.

Current crisis will definetely hit this old industry ....

NEW YORK Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the shame of a needless war in Iraq.

Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil servant, the Nobel-winning Egyptian accuses U.S. leaders of grotesque distortion in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, when then-President George W. Bush and his lieutenants claimed Iraq possessed doomsday weapons despite contrary evidence collected by ElBaradei`s and other arms inspectors inside the country, an AP Special Correspondent reports.

Sri Lankan Team will take on Pakistan in October- November in Pakistan. They will play three Test matches, five One-dayers and one Twenty20 match.

Sri Lanka will thus become the first nation to tour Pakistan after the terror attack in March 2009 in Lahore.
Pakistan Cricket Board welcomed the statement of Chairman Sri Lanka Cricket, Somachandra de Silva, on playing in Pakistan for their next series in October.

If the Sri Lankan Navy attacks any more Indian Fishermen, Sri Lanka will be wiped off the world map, South Indian Actor Ilayathalapathy Vijay said last evening while attending a protest held in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu.

Indian Media reported that the film star also stated that neither the Central Government of India nor the Tamil Nadu authorities were doing anything about the attacks on South Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.

INDIA: The world`s biggest family: The man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren

Ziona Chana lives with all of them in a 100-room mansion
He is head of the world`s biggest family - and says he is `blessed` to have his 39 wives, reports Daily Mail.

Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.

They live in a four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.

what a sweet voice and a singing talent.. amazing