Tag Archives: Sri Lanka

All-round performance leads Pakistan to opening victory

Batting first, Pakistan set a target of 211 with four balls to spare. Opener babar Azam (38 in 41 balls) and Hammad Azam (38 in 76 balls) top-scored for the team with good contributions also c......

Cricketers call for awareness and prevention on World AIDS Day

On the eve of World AIDS Day, which is held annually on 1 December, some of the worlds best-known cricketers have called for the international cricket community to continue to support calls for......

Florida protest targets Mall shoppers

More than twenty Fort Lauderdale Tamils protested in front of the Sawgrass Mills shopping center Saturday drawing attention to the shoppers of the boycott campaign to shun Made in Sri Lanka goo......

Anand Sharma meets coalition partners G-20 and G-33 in Geneva – discusses state of play of WTO Doha Round Negotiations

Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, addressed Ministerial meetings of the two major coalitions of developing countries in the WTO agriculture negotiations, namely, the G......

Fonseka to contest presidential election on swan symbol

Former Sri Lanka Army Commander General (retd) Sarath Fonseka, the common opposition candidate for the Sri Lankan presidential election, which is scheduled to be held on January 26 is to contes......

Operation against underworld criminals stopped due to election

Sri Lanka Police sources said all operations launched against underworld criminals have been suspended on the orders from superiors. With the end of the war against the LTTE the police launched......

PLOTE to Back Rajapaksa in Presidential Election

By Anuradha K. Herath The leader of the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) will support President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential election. PLO......

Foreign Ambassadors including Indian High Commissioner visit Jaffna

Newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Mr. Ashok K. Kantha is on a two-day visit to Jaffna while the Ambassadors of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea to Sri Lanka pa......

Muralitharan aims to add spin to India farewell

The 37-year-old Sri Lanka spinner, 14 short of extending his world record test wicket haul to 800, claimed just three wickets in 63.5 overs in the first test in Ahmedabad. Muralitharan will als......

India fully prepared for second Test against Lanka: Dhoni

The approach is the same, no matter you are playing the first game of the series or second or third game…since there is no result in the first Test Match one good thing you can do-just fo......

Test match against India starts from scratch, says Sangkkara

He said while interacting with the media persons at the Green Park Stadium in Indias northern city of Kanpur on Monday (November 23). The second Test match will be played from November 24 at th......

Sehwag, Gambhir tons powers India to 417/2 on Day 1

India reached 307 for one at tea with Sehwag blasting 131 off 122 balls and Gambhir stroking an unbeaten 140. Giving the left hander company was Rahul Dravid on 32. Deciding to bat, India were ......

SLA, SLN conduct search operation in Panku’lam

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) jointly conducted cordon and search in Panku’lam area Thursday in Trincomalee district following the recovery of a consignment of explosives in the......

Core Projects announces the first organized foray in the billion dollar Teacher Capacity Building market in India with a path-breaking collaboration with University of Oxford

Core Projects and Technologies Limited, India’s largest Global Education Company, today announced a path-breaking collaboration with the University of Oxford, UK for teacher capacity building a......

Tamil, Muslim political parties find their table in Zurich

Widely speculated as a drama backed by ‘high-powers,’ leaders of most of the Tamil and Muslim political parties in the island of Sri Lanka are meeting for the first time in Zurich, Switzerland,......

Secretaries of SLFP, JVP hold special talks

General Secretary, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Maithiripala Sirisena and the General Secretary of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Tilvin Silva held special talks last week on issues relate......

Executive Presidential system inappropriate – Malwatte chapter chief incumbent

Kandy Malwatte Chapter Mahanayake Most Ven. Siddhartha Sri Sumangala Thero said that the systems of Executive President, Provincial Council and present election system are not appropriate to Sr......

Moothoor East farmers suffer due to SLA occupation of their lands

The lands belonging to the residents of Moothoor East in the Eastern Province being occupied by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) which had declared them as High Security Zones (HSZs), they face great diffi......

Tata Housing to develop affordable houses overseas

MUMBAI: Tata Housing Development Company on Thursday said that it has received proposals from Governments of Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Nepal to build integrated cities with affordable housing......

Nucleus Software Recognized By SAFA In Best Presented Accounts Award 2008

South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) has adjudged Nucleus’ Annual Report as the recipient of the second runner’s up position for the Best Presented Accounts Award for the yea......

Last of the Jaffna IDPs in Vavuniyaa camps brought to Jaffna – Jaffna GA

The assignment of bringing Jaffna IDPs in Vavuniyaa to Jaffna has been completed with the arrival of 3,588 persons of 1,114 families Saturday night in Jaffna, according to Jaffna Government Age......