On Monday (21) the Annual General Meeting and elections of the Asian Federation of Netball Associations (AFNA) 2015 where office-bearers for the next two years will be elected will be held in Hong Kong.
Sri Lanka’s Lakhmi Victoria who had been president of the AFNA since 2013 will lose the president ship at this meeting.
Victoria tried to be president this time too but did not receive approval from the Sports Minister.
The Sports Minister intervened and approved Yasa Ramachandra’s name (the present head of the Sri Lanka Netball Federation) but according to the AFNA constitution her name was rejected.
Lakshmi Victoria’s name was withheld according to the Sports Law prevailing in the country.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
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