“History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ”
Several unidentified people who had arrived at Secretary of the National Forum for Journalists and Irudina journalist, Dileesha Abeysundera’s residence on Serpentine Road in Borella on Monday (28) around 11.30 p.m. had tried to forcefully open the gate to enter into the compound.
The person who had shouted out Dileesha’s name had slammed the gate to [...]
Several representatives of former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka had met with Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe last Tuesday morning to explore the possibility of putting forward General Fonseka as a candidate at the next presidential election and sources from the Opposition Leader’s Office say that the Opposition leader had responded quite positively at the discussion.
The [...]
Sources from the Information Department said that intelligence units have launched an investigation to determine whether the controversial video footage telecast on Channel 4 showing two soldiers killing Tamil youths was given by the journalist who was apprehended by the security forces for trying to smuggle several stolen laptops on his way back to Colombo [...]
Computer hackers have created a new trojan virus which could mean a security headache for hundreds of thousands of online banking customers. The Clampi virus, which is spreading quickly across the United States and Britain, infects computers when they visit a site which contains the attackers’ code. The virus then sits Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215091/New-virus-puts-online-banking-passwords-risk.html#ixzz0RmKB3nUe
Questioning photographs, asking for the ethical as well as the
technical and aesthetic ‘how?’ and ‘why?’ of their making, is now a dominant critical mode. It informs both the choice and arrangement of pictures in the exhibitions,
We had set an ambitious agenda to restore stability, confidence, growth and jobs and it has now been backed by $1 trillion of support available to the global economy – a bold, co-ordinated response which the International Labour Organisation estimates has helped to save up to 11 million jobs worldwide.
As part of our efforts to [...]
She named 47 different countries and territories from all across the world in connection with themes ranging from the effect of the recession on the world’s poorest people to the brutal suppression of criticism leading in some cases to the prolonged detention, persecution or murder of political opponents, human rights defenders and journalists.
The UN’s top human rights
LONDON — British and South African authorities have made a record heroin seizure following on operation at London’s Heathrow Airport and raids in both countries, officials said Thursday.
Immigration officials discovered some of the drugs hidden in souvenirs from South Africa at Heathrow, sparking an investigation that netted 360 kilogrammes of heroin in total, the UK [...]
By AMIR SHAH and HEIDI VOGT (AP)
KABUL — A suicide car bomber killed six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians Thursday in the heavily guarded capital of Kabul — a grim reminder of the Taliban’s reach amid political uncertainty in Afghanistan.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack for the Italian contingent in the country.
Violence [...]
The reason of the huge number of farmer suicides since the introduction of Green Revolution is, because of the high costs of the fertilizers and pesticides which immediately put the small farmers at a disadvantage