The United National Party (UNP) informed President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday that the party’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his government would end with his accommodation of dissident UNP MPs.
A film by young writer, director and producer Asitha Ameresekere has been nominated for Britain’s biggest and most prestigious film awards – the BAFTA awards 2007 -- the forerunner to the Oscars.
With over a thousand open-heart operations last year alone, the
dedicated team at the Heart Surgical Unit of the National Hospital continues to serve patients from all over the country.
With the leader of the Bohra community, Dai-Ul-Mutlaq, Dr. Syedna Mohammad Burhannudin now in Sri Lanka to observe the Ashara Mubaraka period, the Bohras here have opened their homes to their brothers and sisters worldwide
Have I travelled a hundred years back in time? Wave after wave of rolling golden sand dunes stretch for miles around me, a creased and dimpled landscape of barren beauty.
Pushpanjali Giri decided to lead the life of an ascetic after running away from home."To tell the truth, we stole away from our houses to become saints," said the irreverent Pushpanjali Giri, speaking in a tent at a Hindu festival in north India about a way of life usually identified with ash-covered naked men.
Business communities affected by the tight security measures enforced in and around Colombo’s high security zone (HSZ), called for a high powered committee to address this threat to their businesses.
The feeder system of the Rugby national grid, namely schools is sinking even deeper in to a quagmire of controversy. St. Anthony’s College who were demoted to the ‘B’ Division for allegedly infringing the rules, are seriously contemplating legal action.
The much awaited World Cricket showpiece is fast approaching and for the last two years or more every full member of the cricketing fraternity has been gearing themselves up and focusing towards this eventuality which...
The last world cup in South Africa in 2003 was a personal disaster for him when he scored just 21 runs in games. Not surprisingly he was dropped from the team. He fought his way back knowing that form is only temporary and class is permanent and was soon back in the team. Soon after that he was appointed the vice captain. But just about a year ago he was striped off the vice captaincy...
"Looks good, sounds good, built to last..." Whatever it is, it sounds tempting, doesn't it? This is just one of the many ways to describe the latest technological additions to the local mobile phone market.
The families oppressed by the Cholas were harbouring hatred against the foreigner. They were awaiting an opportunity to take revenge. Now they got a leader under whom they could wreak vengeance. The youth of the families that came to Vatagiri,...
Ceylon Hotels Corporation, one of the pioneers in domestic and international tourism and a member of the Galle Face Hotel Group launched their new tour package for Sri Lankans.Ceylon Hotels Corporation boasts of having a diverse collection of 24 hotels, rest houses, resorts and restaurants throughout Sri Lanka.......