The BBC is to stop providing radio news to Sri Lanka's state broadcaster because of "continued interruption and interference" in its Tamil programming.
Piyasena Rathuwithana, the eminent astrologer who has been advising Sri Lanka's many heads of state, including President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has told Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) that England, Australia and India will be the front-runners of the tournament.
You did not even acknowledge that Mr Rajapakse is Sri Lanka's elected head of state and enjoys wide public support.
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Australia will next start a three-Test series against Sri Lanka in Ponting's home state of Tasmania on December 14 -- five days before his 38th birthday.
The winner of the 2003 Javed Husain Prize for Young Scientists is Professor Ravi Silva of Sri Lanka, a professor of Solid State Electronics, at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
So does America, despite having earned the wrath of Sri Lanka's government for the State Department's annual human-rights report, which this year highlighted the failure to curb assassinations, abductions and disappearances.
Sri Lanka will keep its long-running state of emergency, and reforms to the voting system will make it harder for smaller parties.
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Last month Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, said America would vote against Sri Lanka.
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Earlier this week, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged all sides in Sri Lanka to end hostilities and allow for the safe evacuation of trapped civilians.
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the ruling party in the state, has been staunchly demanding steps against Sri Lanka.
Myanmar may go from cruel repression to failed state sooner than many think, and in Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese are at each other's throats again, urgently drawing international peacemakers.
Formwe Sri Lanka leg-spinner De Silva said the remarks broadcast on Sri Lankan state TV network ITN was an "attempt to demolarise our team".
"We have been continuously engaged with the government of Sri Lanka on matters address in the resolution, " said a U.S State Department official.
It is impossible to know what the Tigers' bottom line is, but there is some reason to hope that they do now recognise that their main demand, for an independent state in the north-east, will never be acceptable to Sri Lanka's government.
Sri Lanka's foreign minister is currently in Washington and has been meeting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to try and fend off allegations of war crimes.
The result looks unlikely to advance a settlement of Sri Lanka's 17-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate state in the north-east for the Tamil minority.
The US state department has also said that the impeachment "raises serious questions about the separation of powers in Sri Lanka, which is a fundamental tenet of a healthy democracy".
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