In a bid to boost the tourism industry in Jaffna, the foundation stone was laid for Hotel Nallur in Jaffna. The three star hotel, being the first of its kind in the war torn province after a lapse of 60 years, is being constructed by the Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/travel/37-getaways/2649-tourism-to-pick-up-in-jaffna.html
Cairn India which is exploring for oil in Sri Lankan waters is to start gathering meteorological data and monitor ocean currents next month ahead of a test drilling programme, an official said.
The sub-contract for the 'metocean and currents survey' in the Gulf of Mannar, off the island's north-west is to be awarded soon, said Neil de Silva, head of Sri Lanka's petroleum resources development secretariat overseeing exploration efforts. "You might see a ship going out next month to put instruments in the sea and collect data such as wave heights and ocean current strengths in the drilling area."
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/business/126-economy/1836-sri-lanka-to-start-ocean-survey-in-oil-search.html
The Colombo Fashion Week, a completely integrated showcase, aimed at developing a South Asian fashion hub, which encourages and promotes commerce between regional designers and retailers, kicked off in Colombo on February 5. Its main aim is to uplift the fashion industry of Sri Lanka, and its approach is multifaceted.CFW identifies promosing young designers before offering them guidance and internship through CFW’s Technical Studio. These designers then become part of the international showcase, gaining the opportunity to interact with and learn from established designers, as well as exposure to high potential markets.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/fashion/1454-colombo-fashion-week.html
Jacqueline Fernandez who debuted in ALADIN received her due at the Max Stardust Awards 2010. Ex - Miss Sri Lanka Jacqueline Fernandez from TV anchoring to political reporting to modeling, has done it all and now has finally fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming an actress.
The gorgeous star made a big splash with her debut in Sujoy Ghosh's ALADIN alongside veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan and Riteish Deshmukh - the results of which won Jacqueline the 'Exciting New Face' at the Stardust Awards 2010.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/movies/975-jacqueline-wins-exciting-new-face-award.html
Sri Lanka's veteran actress Malini Fonseka has been named by CNN as among Asia’s best 25 actors of all time. Apart from Malini Fonseka Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan is also among the best 25 by CNN.CNN noted that in the history of the Academy Awards (airing on March 7th), only two Asians have ever taken home a Best Actor or Actress statue. Yet Asia has produced incredibly talented thespians that have changed the course of their nation’s cinematic history. In anticipation of Oscar night, CNN narrowed the list of greats to 25.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/movies/1998-malini-among-asias-best.html
It happened right in front of us — in a bid to duck the crowd who had gathered around her vanity van last week — Jacqueline Fernandez’s mobile slipped out of her hands. And before she could recover it, the device was already broken into bits.
“Let that go. It’s already beyond repair. It’s better that I get a new set for myself,” says the former Miss Sri Lanka as we sat down in her vanity van for an interview.
As the actor started talking about her upcoming film by Sajid Nadiadwala, we deflected the topic towards Sri Lanka where the film industry has almost ceased to exist because of the continuous tension.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/movies/2298-jacqueline-shows-interest-in-lanka-film-industry-.html
Sri Lankan cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya cast his vote for the General Elections in Matara today, a day before the actual polls, after obtaining special permission from the Elections Commissioner as he will be out of the country for the IPL cricket tournament.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/2917-sanath-casts-his-vote.html
The woman photographed with Australian cricketer Michael Clarke waiting for a taxi outside Ravesi's Hotel in Bondi has been identified as a Canadian tourist, called Jacqueline Adama.
Adama has spent the past few years touring Australia with her equally pretty identical twin sister Michelle, the pair landing twin jobs as barmaids at Justin Hemmes' hot city nightspots Establishment and Ivy, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Meanwhile, Clarke's ex Lara Bingle has also parked rumours that she's found a new partner.
The model was spotted with an unknown man with dark long hair in a BMW. (ANI)
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/sports/cricket/2927-michael-clarkes-mystery-blonde-identified.html
Sourav Ganguly struck his sixth Indian Premier League half-century and remained in the thick of things as Kolkata Knight Riders upstaged Delhi Daredevils by 14 runs to stay afloat in the race for a semi-final berth.
Cheered by a chockablock Eden Gardens crowd, the home side defended their total of 181 for three with gusto, restricting the Daredevils to 167 for eight for their sixth win in 10 outings.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/sports/cricket/2938-mathews-mendis-shine-as-kkr-upstage-daredevils-to-stay-in-semifinal-hunt.html
New York – Who takes care of the kids when you've got a movie to promote? When it's the premiere of "Date Night" and the stars are Tina Fey and Steve Carell, it's their other halves. For Fey and Carell worked the red carpet in front of New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on Tuesday, April 6, sans their real-life spouses; it was a work night for the pair, who are both best known for their NBC-TV shows.
Fey is the creator and star of "30 Rock," while Carell leads the insanity of "The Office," but both were ready to jump to the big screen when the comedy "Date Night" came along.
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Kate Arrington, Tim Bickel, Marylouise Burke and Tom Irwin will appear in A Parallelogram, a new play by Bruce Norris, at Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Chicago home July 1–Aug. 29.
Directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County), the staging in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., concludes the troupe's 2009-10 season. Opening night is July 11.Norris was represented Off-Broadway earlier this season with Clybourne Park.
Here's how Steppenwolf bills the play: "If you knew your fate — would you accept it? Or try to change it? Bee is a young woman who believes she has an uncanny ability to see the future, and maybe even alter it. From the award-winning team that brought you The Unmentionables and The Pain and the Itch comes this dark, funny world premiere about a woman bent on reinventing her own destiny — and possibly the world."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20100407/en_playbill/138527;_ylt=AkNUnAePwhd9H07WROjyeqJxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTJoZnRtM3ZtBGFzc2V0A3BsYXliaWxsLzIwMTAwNDA3LzEzODUyNwRwb3MDMQRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA3Rvbnl3aW5uZXJzaA--
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A top Federal Communications Commission official acknowledged on Wednesday that the Obama administration's ambitious plan to expand broadband access could be impacted by a court ruling that limited the agency's authority to regulate operations of network providers.
Austin Schlick, the General Counsel of the FCC, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that FCC recommendations aimed at accelerating broadband access in rural parts of the U.S. as well as connecting disabled and low-income Americans, were among the various provisions of the recently unveiled broadband plan that could be affected.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100407/media_nm/us_fcc_broadband;_ylt=AjhlwQE4ZvPInJdS.vEJt_1xFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTJtbW0xMDdlBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAwNDA3L3VzX2ZjY19icm9hZGJhbmQEcG9zAzE0BHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDZmNjb2ZmaWNpYWxz
NEW YORK – Born in 1908, the great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson came of age when small, handheld cameras were giving artists and adventurers unprecedented access to the entire world. Cartier-Bresson began to travel at age 22 and didn't stop for nearly half a century, always with camera in hand.
Now the Museum of Modern Art — which like Cartier-Bresson himself did so much to define visual art in the 20th century — has launched a major retrospective of six decades of work by a man whom curator Peter Galassi calls "one of the most talented photographers who ever lived."
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NEW YORK – Tennis great Martina Navratilova says she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and her prognosis is excellent.
Navratilova said in a phone interview Wednesday that a routine mammogram in January found a lump, and a biopsy the following month determined it was a noninvasive cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS.
The nine-time Wimbledon women's singles champion had a lumpectomy in March and will start six weeks of radiation therapy next month.
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NEW YORK – Whitney Houston has again pushed back the European leg of her first tour in years on the advice of doctors who are encouraging her to take time to recover from a respiratory illness, according to a statement issued Wednesday.
Houston had already postponed the European kickoff, originally scheduled for Tuesday in Paris, because of illness. A statement from a representative said doctors advised Houston to reschedule concerts Thursday and Friday in Manchester, England, and a Sunday performance in Glasgow, Scotland.
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READING, Pa. – Jon Gosselin has sued ex-wife Kate for primary custody of their eight children.
The former reality TV star also asked the Berks County Court on Wednesday to review his child support obligation.
Gosselin's attorney, Anthony List, has previously accused Kate Gosselin of neglecting the children because she appears on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," a charge her attorney rejected as "patently false."
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LOS ANGELES – Roman Polanski's lawyers have filed a last legal volley in a California appeals court, saying that the 33-year-old sex case and its lengthy delays have been an assault on the state's judicial system.
The attorneys said in papers filed Tuesday that the court should order an investigation of judicial misconduct in Polanski's original case and that the Oscar-winning filmmaker should not have to pay for it — an indication that he is running out of funds.
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LOS ANGELES – Megan Fox and her sometime boyfriend, actor Brian Austin Green, are protesting California school budget cuts in a new video online.
In a video posted Wednesday on the comic Web site FunnyorDie.com, Fox urges viewers to "call, write and annoy the governor until he cries for his mommy."
She says more than $17 billion has been cut from state educational programs over the past two years, and Green says the "terminators in Sacramento" plan to cut another $2.5 billion.
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BANGKOK — Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand declared a state of emergency in the Bangkok area on Wednesday after antigovernment demonstrators broke into the Parliament building, forcing government ministers to flee by helicopter.
The televised announcement came after nearly a month of street demonstrations by the red-shirted protesters, who paralyzed the city’s commercial district in recent days and paraded through the city in defiance of government restrictions. They are demanding that Mr. Abhisit dissolve Parliament and call new elections.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/world/asia/08thai.html?src=me
Tennis
Navratilova has breast cancer: Tennis great Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer and her prognosis is considered excellent.
Navratilova said a routine mammogram found a lump, and a biopsy the following month determined it was ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS. The nine-time Wimbledon women's singles champion had a lumpectomy in March and will start six weeks of radiation therapy next month.
"It was such a shock for me," Navratilova said. "It was my 9/11."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2011551531_digs08.html
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