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April 29, 2019 Sri Lanka Bans All Face-Covering Clothing Following Easter Terror Attacks
Sri Lanka has announced a ban on all face covering clothing following the Easter terror attacks which killed over 250 people. The attacks took place at three churches in Kochchikade, Negombo and Batticaloa, as well as three hotels in Colombo on April 21, resulting in the deadliest violence the country has seen since the civil […]
CLOTHING December 30, 2016 SRI spinoff SuperFlex raises $9.6M to pursue ‘powered clothing’
A spinoff from the robot veterans at SRI is making a big bet on ubiquitous soft robotics: SuperFlex aims to establish a new product category with what it calls “powered clothing.” The company, which initially split off in April, hopes to have a product to show in a few months, and has raised nearly $10 […]
HOME & GARDEN June 28, 2016 Sri Lankan circle of relatives unearths mass grave in garden
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of at the least 9 bodies buried in the lawnof their home, police said on Saturday, the contemporary mass grave to be determined within thecountry‘s former warfare region. The circle of relatives made the grisly locate on Friday while clearing out their garden within themetropolis […]
HOME & GARDEN June 6, 2016 Sri Lankan family finds mass grave in lawn
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of as a minimum nine bodies buriedinside the lawn of their home, police stated on Saturday, the modern day mass grave to be discoveredinside the u . s .‘s former conflict region. The own family made the grisly locate on Friday at the same time […]
NEWS May 21, 2016 foreign useful resource reaches flood-hit Sri Lanka; seventy one dead, 127 missing
officers say there were a huge outpouring of sympathy for flood sufferers in Sri Lanka, with donations offood, garb and dry rations. photograph: Reuters Colombo: overseas resource started arriving in Sri Lanka on Saturday, bringing help to half a millionhumans who have been driven from their houses by means of heavy rains and landslides that […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 The Sri Sri syndrome: What we should not forget about so-called gurus and godmen
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Even as the high-decibel criticism of students from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad University continues unabated, the riverside celebration of “Hindu-India” curated by the self-anointed Sri Sri has been forgotten. It has dissolved into the polluted air that hangs over the Yamuna. This so-called guru initially proclaimed that he would pay no […]
