Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.

The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.

Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found.

Experts are critical, warning heavy drinking can increase the risk of other diseases, with alcohol responsible for 1.8 million deaths globally per year.

The study was conducted in Spain, a country with relatively high rates of alcohol consumption and low rates of coronary heart disease.

I was on my way back from my constituency four days ago when I received a call from a villager in Bareilly. He had seen a young bull with acid burns lying near a railway track in his village and thought of calling me. It was 8.30 p.m. I mobilized political people, local doctors, and scientists of the Indian Institute of Veterinary Science, rang up my hospital in Delhi and asked the night doctors about the medicines, had them bought and finally the bull, unconscious with pain, started being treated. It was given primary treatment, pain killers and brought to the IVRI to continue the treatment.

General G. S. C. Fonseka RWP RSP VSV USP rcds psc was appointed as the Chief of Defence Staff by His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces effective from 15th July 2009.

Lieutenant General G . S. C. Fonseka RWP RSP VSV USP rcds psc was appointed as the Commander of the Army effective from 6th December 2005 and later promoted to the rank of General by His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on 18th May 2009.

Some former Provisional IRA members are helping dissident republican efforts to wreck the peace process, the paramilitary watchdog has said.

The Independent Monitoring Commission said the dissident republican threat was the highest for almost six years.

It said most new recruits were `inexperienced young males` but the involvement of former IRA members `significantly added to the threat`.

Dissident republicans killed two soldiers and a policeman in March.

The body, which is responsible for monitoring paramilitary activity, delivered its 22nd report on Wednesday.

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NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory - NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life.

Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for uracil, part of a genetic code found in ribonucleic acid (RNA). RNA is central to protein synthesis, but has many other roles.

Des Browne, the British Envoy to Sri Lanka, told the Tamil diaspora in Australia that, after the comprehensive military victory, the only option available is to engage the government in working out a solution for the Tamils.

In the open dialogue with the Tamil representatives he dismissed outright any possibility of the international community supporting a separate state. He told the Tamil diaspora that big powers like Russia and China will be sympathetic to Sri Lanka as they have their own separatist problems.

`Those who use violence against those who are unarmed and offend those who are inoffensive will soon come upon one of these ten states: acute pain, disaster, bodily injury, grievous disease, loss of mind, oppression by the king, serious accusation, loss of relatives, destruction of wealth, or fire will destroy his house. On the dissolution of his body the foolish man will arise in hell.`

Speechless!! and these monkeys wants to expand Marina Beach and dare comment on Sri Lanka!! If the dentist is like this, imagine a gynecologist?

Some light humour.... to cheer up the depressed peelamists!!!

We have never had so much distance between us
And yet
I have never felt so much for you as I do tonight
I have never before cried for you
As I do tonight
I watch you bleed
And who is `right` or `wrong` no longer seems to matter
Sides of you I may never have seen
Places, so far away foreign to me once
At a distance, now strangely make up `my home`
Is it the distance that blurs out the borders
Or the tears that swell up in my eyes
I can`t quite tell

You lose a leg and an arm

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Most Indian mothers want their daughters to marry decent men who make a good living. Now, in parts of rural India, women have a new -- and rather unusual -- demand for matrimony: a toilet.

`No toilet, no bride,` has become a rallying cry for women raising a stink about the lack of a basic amenity.

They see it as a human rights issue, especially in villages where plumbing can be nonexistent.

The Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka has dropped a hint to the media that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) will be driven out of Eastern Province.

Lieutenant General Fonseka is reported to have briefed the media that his troops engaged at Vakerai and kadiraveli in the Eastern theatre of war have over run two forward defense lines making the enemy retreat and cornered.

Watch their eyes... the eyes never lie.

For all the detractors... watch their eyes... and weep, because this Deepawali, their lives are indeed full of light.

After thinking long and hard about what valuable input I can put in to this esteemed of all forums, I decided that I should dedicate this to the greatest bovines of all times, Our Tamilnadu Brethren.

Where else can you find a people that justifies eating a sacred animal.
Where else can you find a people that is as fickle as the weather.
Where else can you find a people that sometimes gets their wives and pets mixed up on the marriage bed.
Where else can you get politicians that are more adept at being chameleons than humans.