In certain countries you can only send money using PayPal , but you can’t receive money using PayPal. Unfortunately Sri Lanka , which is where I’m from is a country like that . This is one of the most frequent questions I get from my Sri Lankan visitors so I decided to write this short [...]

A bomb blast took place inside the Fort Railway station around 7.30 PM today. The explosion has occurred in the fourth platform of the railway station. One civilian suffered minor injuries because of the blast. This is another pathetic effort by the LTTE to harm civilians and create unrest in the south to cover up [...]

Four people ( 1 soldier , 3 civilians ) have being killed and 24 others have being injured by a bomb attacked carried out by the LTTE. The blast occurred near the Nippon Hotel in Slave Island around 9.30 a.m. The bombs were placed inside an external air condition unit of the Nippon Hotel. Ccondition [...]

Former minister and UNP parliamentarian T. Maheshwaran was shot at Sri Ponnambala Vaneswara Hindu Temple in Kotahena today morning and succumbed to injuries at the intensive care unit of the Colombo General Hospital. One of his guard was also killed in the incident. As expected the government has ordered an inquiry , all the its [...]

The government won the budget by a large margin of 47 ,and as expected claimed this was an approval by the masses to carry out there 10 year plan of rebuilding Sri Lanka. There were many theories about the action the JVP would take , and finally they took the easy way out and didn’t [...]