The United National Party (UNP) today released an audio recording as evidence to prove that the government was attempting to ‘buy’ UNP MPs.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sartorial choices have taken the world by storm. Clad in his statement Nehru jacket - renamed 'Modi' jacket post 2014 - and full-sleeved kurta pajamas, the Prime Minister's wardrobe has brought super stardom to Indian politics.
Many politicians in the past have influenced generations of youngsters to groom themselves better. But in current-day India, it is PM Modi who has gained followers with his distinctive yet simple half-sleeve jacket and has made it a style statement for many of his fans.
Dialog Axiata PLC and Ericsson" two of the leading communication service providers" and the Ministry of Telecommunication" Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment" signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up Sri Lanka’s first 5G Innovation Center'
The signing of the MOU took place with the attendance of many participants including Minister of Telecommunication" Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment Harin Fernando" and Deputy Minister of Telecommunication" Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara'
So Sri Lanka’ will become Sri Lanka’s new tourism tagline from November 5, replacing ‘Wonder of Asia’, Mirror Business reliably learns.
Sources close to developing the tagline said the “out-of-the-box and simple” tagline aims to bring out the authenticity of Sri Lanka’s tourism product with greater engagement with travellers and locals.
Speaking to Mirror Business, Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) Chairman Dehan Seneviratne, who was not in a position to reveal the new tagline officially, however noted that the new tagline would be officially launched at WTM in London, on November 5.
A total of 3,560 people were arrested for various offences and another 6,020 had been charged with traffic violations during a four-hour special countrywide raid carried out by the Police this morning.
Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said the raid was carried out from 3.00 a.m to 7. 00 a.m today and more than 18,000 Police officers took part.
This is the bizarre moment a randy couple is caught on camera in the middle of the day romping at the top of a five-story car park.
Video posted on social media shows the pair going at it, as onlookers can be heard bursting into laughter.
Shocking video shows the couple going at it in the car park, thought to be in Preston
Two bodies have been recovered from a pond in Chaska, Minnesota, during a search for two women who went missing in the early hours of Saturday (October 13).
The families of cousins Bushra Abdi and Zeynab “Hafsa” Abdalla, both 19, called police after they failed to return home from their respective night shifts over the weekend.
The cousins reportedly left their workplaces on Saturday just before 3 a.m. Abdalla, who works in Shakopee, arrived to pick up Abdi, who works in Chaska.
A beauty queen, Khanittha Phasaeng from Thailand has emerged as the winner in a national beauty pageant competition called Miss Uncensored News Thailand and has admitted that she used to be a garbage collector.
17-year-old Khanittha “Mint” Phasaeng has been helping her mother to collect garbage in order to support themselves. She also had to give up her studies after her sixth year in high school, as her mother couldn’t afford her school fees.
NASA has said search and rescue teams are on their way to the Russian Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft capsule after an issue with its booster rockets meant the two astronauts on board had to abort their mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
It launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and American astronaut Nick Hague onboard, but they were forced to abandon their flight to the ISS within minutes. They were scheduled for a six-month stay on the ISS.
A team of 30 Sri Lankan Police Officers participated in a comprehensive training program on Industrial Security at the National Industrial Security Academy (NISA) in Hyderabad, India. The course was organised from 24th to 28th of September.
NISA, an Academy of international repute, was founded in 1990 and it has been recognized as “Center of Excellence in Industrial Security”. NISA is renowned for producing well-trained personnel in the field of Industrial and Critical Infrastructural Security & Management, Aviation Security & Disaster Management and has helped to develop professionals imbibed with highest standards of physical and mental fitness, in-depth knowledge and skills.
Nikki Haley in remarks on her resignation as United States ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday morning praised President Donald Trump's family members in the White House and called his son-in-law Jared Kushner a "hidden genius."
"I can't say enough good things about Jared and Ivanka," Haley said in the Oval Office about Kushner and the president's daughter. "Jared is such a hidden genius that no one understands."
penis size has been linked to infertility in a study.
Scientists at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, set out to answer whether penis size affects a man's fertility, and found that men with organs measuring 12.5 centimetres on average struggled to conceive compared with those who measured 13.4 centimetres. This is believed to be the first study to make the association between fertility and penis length.
According to the U.S. Department of Health, infertility is defined as when a couple cannot conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse. The causes of infertility can be varied and accumulative, but testicular problems are the most common cause in men followed by hormone problems and blockages. In half of the cases, no definitive cause can be pinpointed.
people can identify up to 10,000 faces, scientists have discovered. In the first study of its kind, researchers quantified the number of faces an individual human can know—and findings showed people were able to recognize between 1,000 and 10,000, with the average being 5,000 faces.
The research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, was carried out by Rob Jenkins, from the Department of Psychology at the University of York, and colleagues.
Pakistan successfully launched and tested on Monday its Ghauri Missile System, which can carry conventional and nuclear warheads with a range of more than 800 miles.
Army Strategic Forces Command Lieutenant-General Mian Muhammad Hilal Hussain hailed the test as a successful demonstration of the military’s operational and technical readiness.
“The launch consolidates Pakistan’s nuclear capability which is aimed at peace and stability through a credible deterrence regime,” an official statement from the military said, Pakistan’s The Express Tribune reported. President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan also expressed their appreciation for the successful test of the missile system, according to the country’s Dunya television channel.
China is using ‘debt diplomacy’ to expand its global influence and Hambantota Port could soon become a forward military base for Beijing’s growing blue-water navy, US Vice President Mike Pence has said on Thursday.
According to PTI, Pence said China was offering hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure loans to governments from Asia to Africa to Europe to even Latin America.
“Yet the terms of those loans are opaque at best, and the benefits flow overwhelmingly to Beijing,” Pence said.
The Dolls Hotel has just opened its doors amid the high-rise skyscrapers of the Moscow-City business zone in the capital city.
Sex robots named Lolita, Sasha, Natasha, Alise and Isilel are waiting for customers, say the owners.
Rooms at the “legal brothel” cost between £17.75 and £29.50 per hour - one is called Fantasy, and another has a dungeon.
The total cost after paying for the robot rises to around £60 an hour, a price that perhaps includes the risk that the room will be bugged by the FSB counterintelligence service.
A former porn actress says she will require surgery to restore a breast implant struck and damaged by a hockey puck.
Mia Khalifa, who now plies her trade as a correspondent for sports podcast Sportsball, “was watching an ice hockey match when the six-ounce disk smashed into her chest at around 130km/h [80mph],” News.com.au reports.
“It caught me so off guard and I had no idea it was coming,” the 25-year-old told the Daily Star of the accident, which took place during a May playoff featuring her favorite team, the Washington Cardinals.
A 25-year-old British neuroscience student was turned down by an Airbnb host who said she wouldn't "fit into” the neighborhood because of her hijab.
BuzzFeed News obtained several screenshots of a conversation between Airbnb host "Claudia" and Nurjahan Saleque, who was seeking a short-term Hamburg, Germany, apartment while she pursues her Ph.D. in the city. Looking to move closer to the city center, Saleque repeatedly inquired why the Airbnb host denied her request to stay at the apartment before returning to London, before being told her photo wearing a traditional Muslim veil meant she would not be welcomed into the complex.
scientists have found what could be the first confirmed exomoon—a moon orbiting a planet outside our own solar system—and it appears to be absolutely huge.
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler Space Telescope, researchers discovered what appears to be a Neptune-sized object orbiting the planet Kepler-1625b. This is a Jupiter-sized planet located around 8,000 light-years from Earth. The study by Columbia University astronomers Alex Teachey and David Kipping is published in Science Advances.
A federal judge has indicated that he might dismiss a defamation suit against President Trump that was brought against him by porn star Stormy Daniels.
According to Bloomberg News, Judge S. James Otero, who is a US District Court judge in Los Angeles, weighed in on the suit, which comes from a Trump tweet calling Daniels a “total con job,” via Twitter.