Perhaps, symbolising his phenomenal rise in politics, President Mahinda Rajapaksa taking a leap onto a mini stage at the venue of UPFA’s May Day rally at Dehiattakandiya in the Ampara district on Thursday. Pix by Wasantha Chandrapala and Gemunu Wellage
A three-member Northern Province Interim Advisory body headed by Minister Douglas Devananda has been appointed by the government to oversee resettlement and development.
Minister Abdul Rishad Bathiudeen and Senior Presidential Advisor and parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa are the other members of the high-powered advisory body appointed by the cabinet on Wednesday.
The troubled budget carrier Mihin Lanka has been forced to suspend operations indefinitely, from the beginning of this month, for want of aircraft, as exclusively reported in The Sunday Times last week in a story titled “Mihin Air craftless?”.
What is the expectation of a mother or a father of a sick child who submits a prescription from a doctor to a pharmacy in any part of the country?
Dispensation of the prescribed drugs by a qualified pharmacist. But what of the ground situation not even in a village off the beaten track but .....
Education in Sri Lanka has, in the past, always been the holy ground of the academia. Employability however has not always followed, leading to a plethora of problems among the highly educated but unemployed youth of the country. The latest global concept is the ‘entrepreneurial university” that instills market values in students along with their higher education.
Why! Why! Why! It’s a very shameful situation. One week it’s a report about a world forum castigating a Lankan women athlete as a doping cheat and in the next the law of the country pronounces that a gold winning male athlete as a ‘plastic cash’ fraud. However when the news travels beyond our shores the vibes will drop the names ......
Zimbabwe came under mounting pressure today after the long-delayed result of a contentious presidential poll showed Morgan Tsvangirai trouncing Robert Mugabe but falling short of an absolute majority.
As Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) rejected the official result showing .....
We’ve entered into the third week of the IPL and the tournament continues to exceed expectations. Television audiences are huge, the media write and talk about little else, and the spectators are still turning out in their thousands, filling the huge .....
Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.
They have set up their beds side-by-side and avert their eyes when one of them is changing clothes.
Rawana Haththa is the first instrument ever played with a bow, therefore making it the mother of the violin.
The Ramayanaya, which is considered the “Most Oldest Text” talks about an instrument played by King Rawana, which was a bow instrument.This happened in BC 2524-2514 but .....
Mannar, Valikamam, Trincomalee, Illuppayikkadavai and Kayts, were all under Magha's rule then. Some of these towns were maintained as fortresses. He used to get down soldiers from abroad every now and then. He was constantly taking steps to stabilize his power. Therefore the northern coast was entirely .....
Many hotels and destination companies offer different types of holidays for travellers with various promotional activities.
The Holiday Pass Promotion by Keells Resort Hotels is the latest and offers, holiday makers an extra special promotion over the next six months.
What is the expectation of a mother or a father of a sick child who submits a prescription from a doctor to a pharmacy in any part of the country?
Dispensation of the prescribed drugs by a qualified pharmacist. But what of the ground situation not even in a village off the beaten track but ..... 
Zimbabwe came under mounting pressure today after the long-delayed result of a contentious presidential poll showed Morgan Tsvangirai trouncing Robert Mugabe but falling short of an absolute majority.
As Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) rejected the official result showing ..... 
We’ve entered into the third week of the IPL and the tournament continues to exceed expectations. Television audiences are huge, the media write and talk about little else, and the spectators are still turning out in their thousands, filling the huge ..... 
Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.
They have set up their beds side-by-side and avert their eyes when one of them is changing clothes.
Rawana Haththa is the first instrument ever played with a bow, therefore making it the mother of the violin.
The Ramayanaya, which is considered the “Most Oldest Text” talks about an instrument played by King Rawana, which was a bow instrument.This happened in BC 2524-2514 but ..... 
Mannar, Valikamam, Trincomalee, Illuppayikkadavai and Kayts, were all under Magha's rule then. Some of these towns were maintained as fortresses. He used to get down soldiers from abroad every now and then. He was constantly taking steps to stabilize his power. Therefore the northern coast was entirely ..... 
Many hotels and destination companies offer different types of holidays for travellers with various promotional activities.
The Holiday Pass Promotion by Keells Resort Hotels is the latest and offers, holiday makers an extra special promotion over the next six months. 
