More & More Rules to Western Province - New ways to Increase Revenue !

According to a daily news paper,  the Government is going to charge Rs 5000 ($50) from vehicle owners if they park on pavements. When we spoke to several shop owners regarding this new issue, most of them mentioned that "If we can't park in front of our own shop. we will stop doing business here. We will move to some other place or even to Maldives where we can park our vehicles as well as customers in front of our shops! ". Also people who will not use pedestrian crossing will be produce in court.


It is learnt that these are going to be imposed in order to increase government revenue as UPFA Government's internal & external revenue has gone down in recent past. Also the funds forcefully  taken from KP too has gone down (Some believe that his funds were used in 2010 Presidential Election too).


According to another reliable source,  Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is definitly going to be sold to cover up the expendicture of the Goverment which consist of a massive Cabinet.

Already the ruling party had sold several valuable land at a cheap rate to overseas firms & individuals to start casinos & hotels.


We will have to wait and see what will happen after the upcoming election...

Sri Lanka will play seven batsmens - Less chances for Perera to play !

The Sri Lankan coach has given some insight into the XI his side will field during the World Cup, saying they would stick to a combination of seven batsmen and four bowlers. since it has served them well in games played on home soil. Sri Lanka experimented with playing six batsmen and five bowlers on their 2010 tour of Australia, with allrounders Angelo Mathews and Thisara Perera batting at Nos. 6 and 7, but reverted to a seven-four formula for the home series against West Indies.


"We've got eight batters (in the 15-man squad) and in the last two or three years we've played a seven-four combination with (Angelo) Mathews in the top six being a bowler as well," Bayliss, who will quit the Sri Lanka job after the World Cup, said. "I can't see it changing just at the moment. In Australia we played six-five but seven-four seems to be the way we play our best cricket in Sri Lanka."

That means Thisara Perera may not find a place in the XI,

Laxman and Steyn win Test awards

Dale Steyn and V V S Laxman won the ESPNcricinfo Awards for the best bowling and batting performances, respectively, in Tests in 2010

Source; ESPNcricinfo

Tehran streets mostly empty after protesters clash with police !

Tehran, Iran - Tens of thousands of demonstrators who marched in Tehran in defiance of the Iranian government were largely cleared from the city's streets by nightfall.

Patrolling security forces had battled protesters with batons and tear gas for much of the day.
The wave of people who marched along Revolution Avenue on Monday had remained largely silent as they walked toward the capital's Azadi Square, though at times they clashed with Iranian security forces who tried to disperse the marchers and divert them from the square.

By day's end, dozens of demonstrators had been detained while internet videos showed others had been chased and beaten.

Mexicans take to streets over drug-violence surge !

Mexicans took to the streets in their hundreds to protest a staggering surge in drug-related violent crime nationwide that claimed at least 45 lives in one weekend.

"No more violence, no more lack of safety, no more corrupt politicians, let's move ahead with citizen candidates," marchers on the touristy Paseo de la Reforma shouted after at least 45 people died in Monterrey and Guadalajara, and the northern state of Chihuahua.


Demonstrators marched to the Senate to unveil an appeal for tougher anti-drug laws.


The attacks were the latest deadly violence gripping Mexico's war on drugs, as the country's various criminal cartels struggle over turf and the government uses police and soldiers in an attempt to crush them.


From late Saturday into Sunday, 15 people were killed in Chihuahua state drug-related bloodletting, prosecutors said. Of the 15, nine people were slain in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's deadliest city across from the US city of El Paso.


Also in Chihuahua state, 11 people were slain in several separate murders in Ciudad Juarez, a day earlier between late Friday and Saturday, authorities said.


And gunmen shot dead five men together in

A prominent businessman from Kilinochchi abducted in a White Van !

According to lankaenews, He had been abducted on 12th by a group who arrived in a White Van.


S. Thiyagaraja about 54 years old is the businessman who had been so abducted . He is the owner of Modern Stores and a number of other businesses in that area.


When he was preparing to open the shop in the morning on 12th, the group who came in the White Van had got him near the Van stating that they have to talk with him. They have then forcibly pushed him into the Van unexpectedly, and they have fled in the Van .


A relative of Thiyagaraja had taken a call to his mobile phone some time after he left the house for opening of the shop . Thiyagaraja had answered the phone , having stated that he was going to Colombo on some urgent work and he would not return for two or three days but while he was speaking he had burst out crying, when the call had been disrupted. Since that time until now , the phone has been switched off. His relatives have complained to the Kilinochchi police over this.


Only very few have returned back after abduction so far...


Source ; lankaenews

Dictator Hosni Mubarak Resigns ! - END of 30 year autocratic rule

Cries of "Egypt is free" rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced (Dictator) President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule. 

Ecstatic protesters in Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square hoisted soldiers onto their shoulders and families posed for pictures in front of tanks in streets flooded with people streaming out to celebrate. Strangers hugged each other, some fell to kiss the ground, and others stood stunned in disbelief.

Prime Minister D M Jayarathne likely to be expelled & another Rajapakse as PM !

According a senior minister of the Government, President MR is under pressure by the
Rajapaksas family to appoint a family member as the Prime Minister by expelling D M Jayarathne (Already a leader of one of the other two main parties supporting Government had taken up the task to tarnish & end Hon. Prime Minister's Political Career).

MR is scheduled to visit the US once again on a private trip in a few weeks and the Rajapaksa family is looking at making a change in the Prime Ministerial post before the President’s overseas tour for another treatment..

G Rajapakse (who was involved in defeating terrorism) has not still given a positive response to the President’s proposal to appoint Gotabhaya to parliament through the National List and
to appoint him as the Prime Minister.

The senior minister also said that, if Gotabhaya was not interested in entering politics. First Lady (S Rajapaksa) had asked the President not to appoint Chamal or Basil Rajapaksa to the post of Prime Minister but appoint Namal Rajapaksa to the Cabinet and then as Prime Minister.

The senior minister also mentioned that if NR or GR  is appointed as PM, it's likely that the country will lead to another Egypt or Tunisia....

Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved

Computer studies of ocean floors around the world, particularly the area known as The Bermuda Triangle, reveal evidence of massive methane explosions in the past. For years, believers in the paranormal, aliens, and other outlandish theories pointed to the the disappearance of ships and aircraft as an indicator of mysterious forces at work in the “Devil’s triangle.” Scientists have finally pointed the rest of us to a more plausible cause.

The presence of methane hydrates indicates enormous eruptions of methane bubbles that would swamp a ship, and projected high into the air- take out flying airplanes, as well.

Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the sky with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving into the ocean and swiftly plummeting.

Photos of the Huge Protest by main Opposition in Sri Lanka

Source; www.lankaenews.com