Tag Archives: Sri Lanka

For a change, mythology has been making headlines in India when border clashes with Pakistan and encounter killings near Bhopal are hitting headlines on Monday. Ravan was vanquished by Lord Ram on Dussehra returns home to celebrate the festival of lights or Diwali. The gap is just 18 days, so how is it possible to return in such a short ...

Indian Army has claimed that its surgical strikes have claimed the lives of about 40 terrorists-in-waiting to cross into the country and some latest revelations said that this is not the first time such attacks across the LoC were undertaken as they were kept clandestine in the past and not talked about openly as is done now. The fall-out of ...

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who attended one of her best friend’s wedding in Sri Lanka recently was reportedly accompanied by her friend Ravneer Singh and her mother Ujjala Padukone. While NDTV flashed some photographs of their presence at the wedding, Ranveer’s presence has raised eyebrows of many at the possible intimacy the actor has on the family of Padukones. The ...

Indo-German joint research team has discovered a rare fossil of the limb of a dinosaur at Kas Hill in Lodai area of Kutch in Gujarat, joining Balasinor, the only other site where several such fossils were found earlier. The 10-meter-long herbivore became extinct millions of years ago and the fossil remains found on January 19 were about 130 million years ...

As expected the space debris identified as “WT1190F” has fallen in the Indian Ocean, off the southern tip of Sri Lanka on Friday and most of it was burnt up on re-entry into the atmosphere and failed to entice the spectgators for a night of crackers in the sky. Measuring 3 to 6 feet, the junk was believed to be ...

It is a mysterious space junk, probably some outdated rocket or space junk that is heading to crash on Earth, to be precise in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka but the piece is supposed to burn off before hitting the ground zero, said scientists warding off any room for rumours or doomsday advocates. Called WT1190F, the space junk will ...

India are all ready to get back to business as they take on Sri Lanka in the second test of the three-match Test series, which kicks off on Thursday in Colombo. Reading @KumarSanga2 talk is as sublime as watching him bat. His chat with @ShirinSadikot – http://t.co/a4mCegbGfi pic.twitter.com/uSMNAg0E0C — BCCI (@BCCI) August 19, 2015 After losing the first test in ...

Higgs Boson pioneer CERN or the European Organisation for Nuclear Research has announced that Pakistan has become an Associate Member of CERN with effect from August 1, 2015, leaving India ponder the possibility of joining the Organisation soon. Pakistan has been swift to ratify the agreement signed in December to join the CERN as a full member after committing to ...

CERN and Sri Lanka have formed a partnership with the aim of formalizing and broadening their cooperation. To this end, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer and Sri Lanka‘s Permanent Representative at the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, signed an Expression of Interest on Thursday 25 June 2015. This agreement will pave the way for international cooperation with Sri Lanka ...

After getting swept by Bangladesh and sweeping Zimbabwe, Indian cricket team is all set to tour Sri Lanka starting from earlier next month. According to PTI, BCCI is scheduled to meet on July 23 in Delhi to select the team that goes for a three-match Test series in Sri Lanka. Both India and Sri Lanka are currently busy with their ...