Lanka Astrologers

Sri Lanka's government-backed traditional astrologers have failed to unanimously agree on dates for new year rituals, with squabbling seers warning of "disaster" and accusing rivals of misinterpreting the position of stars.

A former Sri Lankan sailor, who had attacked the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt here in 1987, has been arrested for making an astrological prediction about the death of President Maithripala Sirisena.

As a defeated Mahinda Rajapakse slunk out of Sri Lanka's presidential palace, the astrologer who counselled him to call a disastrous early election was gloomily packing his bags on the other side of town.

After the exciting win in the World Cup semifinals, the Indian cricket team is all set for Saturday's final against Sri Lanka and astrologers say that luck favours the hosts, who will lift the trophy they first won in 1983.

Sri Lanka's government-backed traditional astrologers have failed to unanimously agree on dates for new year rituals, with squabbling seers warning of "disaster" and accusing rivals of misinterpreting the position of stars.

A former Sri Lankan sailor, who had attacked the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt here in 1987, has been arrested for making an astrological prediction about the death of President Maithripala Sirisena.

As a defeated Mahinda Rajapakse slunk out of Sri Lanka's presidential palace, the astrologer who counselled him to call a disastrous early election was gloomily packing his bags on the other side of town.

After the exciting win in the World Cup semifinals, the Indian cricket team is all set for Saturday's final against Sri Lanka and astrologers say that luck favours the hosts, who will lift the trophy they first won in 1983.