Pradeep Basnayake News Today

Wickremesinghe, backed by the entire political and business establishment, insists that the devastating austerity measures demanded by the IMF have to implemented.

While none of the life-and-death social problems facing the masses have been resolved, Wickremesinghe has been given the time to unleash even more repressive attacks on social and democratic rights.

The island-wide actions, held on consecutive days beginning Monday, are another indication of mounting working-class opposition to the Rajapakse government’s austerity measures and its escalating anti-democratic attacks.

Flanker Herathge Karunaratne did Army and Sri Lanka proud Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) Some of the yesteryear sportsmen who became prominent figures in their respective sporting disciplines never had an opportunity of gaining any sort of exposure during their school days. No sooner they joined a club, they eventually matured as prolific players, learning the basics of that particular game. Herathge Karunaratne was a player who never had the basic idea of handling a rugby ball,...

news Hooker Ansar Buksh did Kandy SC and Sri Lanka proud Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) The game of rugby which is played globally is a tough body contact game. Some of the players who played in the past took to the game because their friends and relatives handled the oval shaped ball. Mohamed Ansar Buksh was one of them who hailed from a family of ruggerites, who played the game for the love and passion reaching great heights. Ansar had two nicknames as his family called him �...