WikiLeaks: ‘Just Do Nothing’ Is What Ranil Learned From His Christmas Vacation Reading On Roosevelt ! – US

 December 26, 2013

“The Ambassador was called in to see Prime Minister Wickremesinghe on the afternoon of Saturday, January 10. Milinda Moragoda was also present. The meeting began with the participants exchanging thoughts on the books they had read over the Christmas/New Year’s lull, with the PM noting in particular a biography of Franklin Roosevelt.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.

The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The “Confidential” cable was signed by the US Ambassador to Colombo Jeffrey J. Lunstead on January 12, 2004.

The US Embassy wrote; “As the Ambassador left, the PM commented again on his vacation reading. He said that one thing he had learned from the Franklin Roosevelt biography was that for a lot of the time ‘Roosevelt just did nothing.’ That might be the wrong inspiration to take from that book.”

One killed and 3 injured after train engine catches fire 


One killed and 3 injured after train engine catches fire-December 27, 2013 
The engine of a train had caught fire close to the Wadurawa Railway Station along the Weyangoda Keenawela rail route a short while ago, the Police Media Unit told Ceylon Todaya Online.


According to reports one person was killed and 3 others were injured after jumping off the train and being hit by another train plying in the opposite direction.


Police said that the fire has now been completely doused.