Royal College Colombo and Good Shepherd Convent Kotahena bagged the Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball championships respectively, at the All-Island Schools Games conducted by the Ministry of Sports at Jaffna's St. Patrick’s and Central College courts.
In the Boys’ final, Royal beat St. Joseph’s College Colombo 54-42, while in the Girls’ final, Good Shepherd beat Holy Family Convent Bambalapitiya 45-42.
In the Boys’ semi-finals, Royal beat Royal Institute 51-43 and St. Joseph's beat Joseph Vaz Wennappuwa 44-31.
Royal Institute beat Joseph Vaz 64-36 for third place.
In the Girls’ semi-finals, Good Shepherd beat Lyceum International Wattala 59-36 and Holy Family beat Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda 58-22.
Lyceum Wattala beat Dharmasoka College 60-31 for third place.
Royal's Rukshan Atapattu and Good Shepherd's Nirma Sasanthi won the 'Best Player' awards in boy's and girls' categories respectively.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
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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