Saman Kumara Gunawardena has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Selection Committee by the Sri Lanka Athletic Association.
Saman Kumara, as he is well known in the athletic fraternity, is a long serving official of SLAA and was a member of its Selection Committee since 1997.
He is the Director of Physical Education at University of Kelaniya and has been associating with national selections since 1992 as a statistician before being appointed to the committee in 1997.
Under Saman Kumara's leadership R.A. Wimalasena Perera, Udeni Kanchanamala, Patrick Saparamadu and B.A. Dayaratne will form the Selection Panel for Athletics.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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