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Snowden, Thulasi force US into legal extradition quagmire
[TamilNet, Monday, 24 June 2013, 00:04 GMT]In 2008, the United States Government requested the extradition of Eezham Tamil defendant, Thulasitharan Santhirarajah, from Australia for an alleged offense...
View ArticleCID recovers victim’s phone from canal
Colombo businessman’s killingJune 23, 2013, 12:00 pmNavy divers comb bed of waterway for 5 hrsBy Chaminda SilvaThe CID yesterday recovered, from the St. Sebastian Canal near Khettarama in Colombo,...
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Vauxhall Opens Showroom in Sri Lanka
June 22, 2013, 6:30 pmColombo’s first Vauxhall dealership since the 1960s, under the Vauxhall Auto Mart Pvt Ltd, was declared open today. Representatives from Vauxhall UK, Mr. Mark Lambird and Mr....
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Lives and times of now extinct DROs
Speech made on the occasion of the book launch on the DRO serviceJune 22, 2013, 5:32 pmFlood damage: Dealing with the problem part of the DROL remitK. LogeswaranThe chief guest Honorable Senior...
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CID recovers victim’s phone from canal
Colombo businessman’s killingNavy divers comb bed of waterway for 5 hrsBy Chaminda SilvaThe CID yesterday recovered, from the St. Sebastian Canal near Khettarama in Colombo, the mobile phone of...
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GR: Transfer of Lankan officers from TN to Pune unacceptable
June 23, 2013, 12:00 pmBy Shamindra FerdinandoThe Sri Lankan government wouldn’t accept the transfer of military officers, now studying at the prestigious Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), at...
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Saudi Arabia switches start of weekend from Thursday to Friday
A Saudi broker monitors stock market prices in a Riyadh investment bankSaudi Arabia is to change the start of its two-day weekend from Thursday to Friday, official sources say.The change will bring it...
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Dagestan and the Tsarnaev brothers: The radicalisation risk
By Tim FranksBBC World Service, MakhachkalaDzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger Boston marathon bombing suspect, will appear in court in just over two weeks. In Dagestan, the Russian republic where the...
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Top Hong Kong official Mak Chai-kwong guilty of fraud
The scandal damaged Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung's credibilityHong Kong's former development secretary, Mak Chai-kwong, has been convicted of fraud.Mr Mak was found guilty by Hong Kong's...
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Uttarakhand Live: Met predicts heavy rains in next 72 hours Headlines Today...
Army personnel help stranded an elderly woman climb down a mountain in Govindghat.08.50 pm: The met office predicts heavy to very heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand during next 72 hours 07.30 pm: The...
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Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to jail in sex trial AFP/ET
An Italian court on Monday sentenced Berlusconi to seven years in jail and banned the former premier from public office after convicting him of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of...
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RK Krishna Kumar set to begin new innings with Ratan Tata at RNT Associates...
Set to retire on July 18 from Tata Sons, Ratan Tata’s right hand man won’t walk into the sunset.Mid-November 2012: on a cool Sunday evening, old friend Suhel Seth drops in to visit Krishnakumar...
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How 12 disruptive technologies could bring $20 trillion innovation...
McKinsey recently identified 12 technologies that could lead to a $20 trillion to $30 trillion economic impact on the world in 2025. As global growth slows down, people look towards technology...
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From a maths teacher to head of SRM empire: TR Pachamuthu faces toughest exam...
Many rumours have emerged in discussions about SRM. A substantial discussion has been a rarity, what with Pachamuthu being the media-shy man that he is.CHENNAI: TR Pachamuthu, 72, isn't as well-known...
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A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely...
Somewhere between a fifth to a third of the million students graduating out of India’s engineering colleges run the risk of being unemployed.Somewhere between a fifth to a third of the million students...
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Rise & fall of US Inc’s poster boy: How Rajat Gupta fell from a CEO to an...
Anita Raghavan, a financial journalist who writes for Forbes and The New York Times Dealbook, has come come up with a new book on Rajat Gupta, that tracks one of the biggest cases to rattle Wall...
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VS Parthasarathy: Meet Mahindra group's M&A chief who steered all big deals...
VS Parthasarathy, the Mahindra group’s M&A chiefTen years, 50-plus deals — VS Parthasarathy, the Mahindra group's M&A chief, has steered all big deals. Here's what he has learnt about deal...
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Stealth demolition: How do the Japanese bring down their skyscrapers
There are many ways to demolish a building, and some of them are spectacular: blowing it up from the inside so it collapses on itself.TOKYO: There are many ways to demolish a building, and some of them...
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NY court upholds ex-billionaire's conviction CBC
convictionGalleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam in October 2011 /Mario Tama/Getty ImagesNEW YORK The conviction of a onetime Sri Lankan billionaire on insider-trading charges was upheld Monday by a...
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India should consider consequences before making decisions on Sri Lanka -...
* India should consider consequences before making decisions on Sri Lanka - union minister Mon, Jun 24, 2013, 11:43 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 24, Chennai: An Indian Union...
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