Rihanna was the musical guest on last night's 'Saturday Night Live,' hosted by Anne Hathaway. The singer premiered "Stay," a new song off her upcoming album, "Unapologetic."While the song usually features Mikky Ekko, Rihanna sang it solo. ...

We know you spent all weekend crying over the news that Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have broken up -- and likely so did the Biebs. On Friday, multiple sources confirmed that the couple, who had been dating for nearly two years, called it quits about a week ago. Sources...

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INDIA: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the economic “gloom and doom” clouding the country in recent years has been dispelled and that he is determined to push ahead with further reforms. In a speech on Saturday evening in Mumbai, Singh said that in 2006, 10 percent...

IRAN: Iran on Saturday brushed aside newly-imposed US sanctions over media censorship, which it said was essential to preserve “moral values” in the Islamic republic. Dismissing them as “unimportant”, Islamic Culture and Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said the sanctions “against the ministry and the press watchdog are the...

PAKISTAN: Pakistan marked “Malala Day” Saturday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, but in her home town security fears meant her schoolmates could not honour her in public. Taliban hitmen shot Malala Yousafzai on her school bus...

Dilwin Mendis - Moratuwa Sports corr The people of Moratuwa are not only crazy about this noble game, but they have a thorough knowledge of the subject, they love and always enjoy a good game of cricket, they expect fairplay and sportsmanship on and off the field. Since...

Elmo RODRIGOPULLE Now that the Sri Lankan cricketers have wrapped up the one-day series against New Zealand 3-1, the final game at the Sooriyawewa Stadium will be a hit about for the Lankans today. But it will do Sri Lanka cricket a lot of good if they can...

Priyan de Silva - Matara Sports Correspondent Y A Nuwan Dulantha of Colombo and G G Manomi Kumari of Ampara took the men’s and women’s cycling titles at the 24th National Youth Sports Festival on Saturday. The Cycling, Race walking and Marathon events were worked off at Matara...

90th edition concludes with two new SL records : Yasaratne GAMAGE D M E D K Fernando of Sri Lanka Army emerged the best athlete and was awarded the N Vyrawananthan Memorial Challenge Cup in the 90th National Athletics Championships concluded at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. Fernando's performance...

Ridma DISSANAYAKE Illegal drug trafficking in Sri Lanka is on the rise. Heroin and cannabis are the most common drugs seized in the country with 80 percent of these drugs finding their way via the sea route, Sri Lanka Coast Guard Director General Rear Admiral Ruwan Dias said....

Priyadarshani Kahawala, Ingiriya Central Group Cor Two constables, a sergeant and a Civil Defence officer of Moragahahena Police Station were interdicted following a clash between villagers of Yahalakale Estate in Horana and members of the Moragahahena Police on Saturday night. The Police had gone to investigate a case...

Budget 2013: Chaminda PERERA This Budget has given much relief to the people at grassroot level and it helps promote investment. That is why Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe avoided giving any comments regarding the budget, Cooperatives and Internal Trade Minister Johnston Fernando said. He said that the Opposition...

Analysis: * With the Judiciary supposed to be ‘free of Executive influence’ here in Sri Lanka, we see how that is not so in ‘liberal America.’ * Four of the justices currently seated on the U.S. Supreme Court are in their 70s. WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s election victory...

The Universal Periodic Review has come, and gone, and as usual there seems to be general satisfaction in Sri Lanka as to how it went. I have no doubt that the generally excellent team sent from Sri Lanka performed well, and gave sensible answers to the questions raised....

SL major international transport hub -Part II : Engineering is teamwork At a time when much investment is made on developing transport infrastructure, these examples from Sri Lanka’s own history cannot be over emphasized. For transport infrastructure to succeed in providing the desired and sustainable economic impetus requires getting...

Considered as one of the most important events in the world tourism calendar, Sri Lanka has been listed as one of the five 'Newly Emerging Travel Powerhouses' in this publication for 2012. The countries are Mexico, Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina. This annual report is a mirror and highlights...

The premier world-wide sustainability merit ‘Green Globe Re-Certification’ was achieved by Cinnamon Lodge Habarana with a compliance of 81 % of the 248 preset standards for the second consecutive time. In 2011 the resort achieved a compliance rate of 78 %. Green Globe is the premier worldwide certification...

John Keells Holdings PLC won the Golden Peacock Global Award for Sustainability for 2012 at the London Global Convention held recently. The award aims to recognise entities that have taken steps in promoting overall Sustainable Development. JKH was among two other winners for the said category; namely Tata...

Indunil HEWAGE The Sri Lankan government has created space for municipal councils to raise funds by issuing municipal bonds, which are five times bigger than the Municipals’ Budget surplus, says Dr .P.B Jayasundara , Secretary to the Treasury. He made these sentiments addressing a Post-Budget seminar organised by...

Sri Lanka’s first 500 room five star beach resort , would be ready by 2015, winter. This mega project by LOLC leisure amalgamating three award winning hotels into one enterprise will be the biggest and the best in the subcontinent taking Sri Lanka tourism to a new era....