Penguin India brings out diary of LTTE Captain
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 23:01 GMT]The English edition of ‘War Journey: Diary of a Tamil Tiger’ authored by the late Capt. Malaravan has been published and released by Penguin Books, India...
View ArticleOccupying STF seizes 600 acres of farmland in Poththuvil
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 19:06 GMT]Sinhala Buddhist extremists, with the backing of the occupying Sri Lankan government in Colombo, have planned to appropriate about six hundred acres of...
View ArticleIndia launches housing project in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province
Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:54 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 22, Batticaloa: India launched its housing project to construct houses for the resettled families in the Eastern Province of...
View ArticleGoogle Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt spoke with Business Today on the India...
Edited excerpts:Internet | Steve Jobs | Local language search | Larry Page "Google Plus is clearly big enough to be a viable competitor to Facebook" Photo: Vivan MehraGoogle Executive Chairman Eric...
View ArticleNikesh Arora, the New Delhi-born Senior Vice President and Chief Business...
Nikesh Arora, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at GoogleNikesh Arora, the New Delhi-born Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Google, touches upon a variety of topics...
View ArticleIPL spot-fixing: Sreesanth could stay behind bars for life as Delhi Police...
IPL spot-fixing: Sreesanth could stay behind bars for life as Delhi Police charge him NEW DELHI: The spot-fixing scandal involving three cricketers looks like the proverbial tip of the iceberg, if...
View ArticleHrithik Roshan’s Krrish 3 may net $3 million from off-screen action By Ratna...
Set up by Turner Broadcasting-promoted Cartoon Network’s former top official Jiggy George, this is the first time Dream Theatre will work on a on a local brand. (Pic by BCCL)NEW DELHI: Actor Hrithik...
View ArticleCSK boss Gurunath Meiyappan’s love for golf brought him close to BCCI chief’s...
CHENNAI: In film-crazy Tamil Nadu, 42-year-old Gurunath Meiyappan — the team principal of Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law of BCCI president N Srinivasan — is somewhat of an oddity as movies never...
View ArticleHimanshu Chakrawarti: Meet the man who helps smartphone makers connect with...
Chakrawarti has become the Man Friday in India for smartphone makers. He gave EMI idea to Apple for iPhones and helped Nokia plan Lumia strategyKOLKATA: If iPhone sales in India shot up three times...
View ArticleGenocidal military gets into white garb to observe Vesak in Jaffna
[TamilNet, Thursday, 23 May 2013, 22:11 GMT]The commander of the occupying SL military in Jaffna, Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe, together with all of his senior officers and a section of...
View ArticleSri Lankan Minister again under suspicion for attack on local council chairman
Thu, May 23, 2013, 07:45 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Minister of Public Relations Mervyn Silva came under media attention again as his same party...
View ArticlePower devolution the best method to resolve ethnic issue in Sri Lanka- Kiriella
Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:25 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella says the party...
View ArticleControversial Buddhist organization in Sri Lanka says government has not...
Thu, May 23, 2013, 01:11 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 23, Colombo: A controversial Buddhist organization in Sri Lanka, the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), says that the government had not...
View ArticleSri Lanka's post Geneva progress being looked into by the US, says TNA
Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:31 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says that the United States is looking into the progress made by the...
View ArticleWoolwich attack: Lee Rigby named as victim
Woolwich attack: Lee Rigby named as victimThe murdered soldier has been named as 25-year-old Drummer Lee RigbyThe soldier killed in an attack in London has been named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd...
View ArticleMuslim leaders' Auschwitz visit boosts Holocaust knowledge
By Adam EastonBBC News, AuschwitzThe religious leaders learned about the people that died in the German Nazi camps in PolandMuslim leaders from around the world have taken part in an unprecedented...
View ArticleEnglishisms in France: Readers' franglais favourites
A row over plans to teach some courses at French universities in English has outraged some defenders of the language of Moliere - but plenty of French people habitually sprinkle their speech with...
View ArticleThe OAU: Fifty years on
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah (l) and Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie (r) helped found the OAU in 1963The Organisation of African Unity was formed 50 years ago - on 25 May 1963. It was a compromise between...
View ArticleRanbaxy-Daiichi: The gloves are off E. Kumar Sharma BT
Ten days after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Ranbaxy had pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $500 million as settlement for having engaged in manufacturing violations and made false...
View ArticleGota opposes NPC polls
May 23, 2013, 12:00 pmBy Shamindra FerdinandoDefence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday warned the government of dire consequences in case the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won the first northern...
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