Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and Tamil rebels in the island’s north have killed up to 30 people, the two sides said on Wednesday amid a spate of air raids, bus bombings and sea battles that has left scores dead in recent weeks. The government, meanwhile, said it had taken control of a key road in eastern Sri Lanka.
Stung by consecutive defeats, the Sri Lankan cricket board is sending renowned sports psychologist Sandy Gordon to help the national cricket team come out of its present poor form, a top cricket official said. Sri Lanka has lost eight of its last nine limited-overs internationals to India and New Zealand over the past two months.
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/ 21 December 2005
Nine hours after the tsunami struck the coast of Sri Lanka on December 26 last year, rescue workers found a 10-week-old boy caked in mud and took him to Kalmunai Base hospital. There he was registered as ”Baby 81”, the 81st person admitted on that chaotic day.
It was October 11, 2004, and the world looked beautiful to KMG Prinsika. She had given birth to her third child, a wide-eyed baby girl she and her husband named Pushmi Moonesha. The happy parents told the gynaecologist that they’d had enough children, and it was time for Prinsika to be sterilized. But on December 26, 2004, the world became a horror for the couple.