After Eid prayers on Wednesday, Puttalam Muslims were seen carrying black flags to protest the killing of a police officer, who was mistaken for a grease devil.
Pic by Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe
‘Meet tomorrow at 6.45am at the Fort train station. Bring a spoon each’– was the seemingly curious text message I received the night before we set out on a camping trip to Kalpitiya.
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is set to spend an estimated US$200 million on acquiring Sri Lanka's second-largest land-based telephone company Suntel which has been looking for a buyer for the past 12 to 18 months, the Business Times reliably learns.
Libya's new leaders said they will move to Tripoli next week after their forces defeated Muammar Gaddafi and pledged to restore order and stage elections in 20 months.
While driving through the streets of Colombo and its suburbs, what attracts one’s attention most are the posters of various characters littering the streets and most of them screaming out to the people of the area to elect them as their mayor or the head of the local council.
Sri Lankan quality biscuit market leader, and the country's premier biscuit manufacturer, Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Limited, has recorded a significant growth in sales and production volume this year following its principle of looking after taste ......
It began in the rural villages, but now it is the 'talk of the town'. Even foreign television channels felt it worthy of reporting -- the 'Grease Yaka' or Grease Demon phenomenon gripping the attention of many ......
A five-year long state of emergency, which saw the military defeat of Tiger guerrillas, ended midnight Tuesday closing a historic and sometimes controversial chapter in the country's history.
There is an unbearably laconic flavour to the way in which this Government treats Sri Lanka’s Constitution, the law and mandatory legal conditions. In recent days, this unhappy fact has been emphasized even more obviously than in the past.
The captain in Mannar, was quick to act. He defeated the Malabar army and captured their ships. They were brought to Colombo. Prince Rajasinghe was shocked to notice all this.
Esther Arshana Rajadurai of Gateway College Kandy has secured 12 A Star grades at the 2011 IGCSE London O/L examination. She has also obtained an A Star for French Speaking in addition to these grades.
