A HOT cup of tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido.
Bollywood is completing a century of movies, which began in 1913 with the first all-Indian feature film " Raja Harishchandra", a silent, black-and-white story of a virtuous king from Hindu mythology.
Making a first in Sri Lankan corporate history, Lankan corporates and government institutions are to take stern action against employees sprouting religious hatred, sexually derogatory remarks and abuse through social media.
“I buy good marks of saffron to satisfy my clients. They pay quite a lot and they need to be sure that it is not mixed with some colored fibers,” says Armin, the manager of a supermarket in Tajrish, an upscale district in north Tehran.
In a remote corner of northern Tanzania, Boeing 747 planes land on a private airstrip, trucks with United Arab Emirates (UAE) number plates drive across the plains, and anyone with a cell phone receives an unlikely text message:
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
The loss of Sri Lanka's leading literary authority Sucharitha Gamlath was grieved by intellectuals as an insurmountable void in art and culture as well as political philosophy.