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 19 Dec (CI) Misbah-ul-Haq had implored his top order to produce an innings of substance in the approach to the series but even he may not have expected his top four to respond as emphatically as they did. Two young batsmen stroked alluring half-centuries, while Mohammad Hafeez ended his poor form with a canny 122, to set up Pakistan's third-highest total in 115 matches at Sharjah. Misbah had also warned his side that Sri Lanka don't stop fighting, and he perhaps hadn't expected his side to.. |  19 Dec (DN) All should work with responsibility to make next year's 66th Independence Day celebrations to be held in Kegalle a success, Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister W. D. J Seneviratne told officials when he addressed a meeting held at the Kegalle Kachcheri following an inspection tour of the proposed venue in Kegalle to look into the preparations in progress on December 17. The Minister who identified the officials in-charge of each segment of the preparations discussed.. |
 19 Dec (DN) Many national schools out of Colombo have emerged in front surpassing many Colombo schools, as per the cut-off marks of the 2013 Grade 5 Scholarship Examination released on Tuesday. Royal College, Colombo and Vishaka Vidyalaya, Colombo secured first places with the highest cut-off mark at 186 in boys' school and girls' school categories. Dharmapala Maha Vidyalaya, Pannipitiya is at the top of the mixed schools category obtaining 174 marks. Dharmaraja Vidyalaya, Kandy and Mahamaya.. |  19 Dec (DN) Deputy Minister of Investment Promotion Faiszer Mustapha yesterday stressed that the Special Gazette Notification issued on Tuesday (17) for the implementation of three projects valued at US$ 1.2 billion has nothing to do with Casinos or gaming. He said that the Cabinet has given the green light for three mega projects under the Strategic Development Project Act for mixed development activities and no green light has been given for casinos or gaming activities through the Gazette.. |
 18 Dec (Island) Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa yesterday, giving his ruling on UNP MP Wijayadasa Rajapakshe’s Private Member’s bill, with regard to the removal of Supreme Court and Appeal Court judges, said that the decision to debate the bill or not would be taken by the House. MP Rajapakshe’s Bill, ‘to ensure a fair, independent and impartial trial to the Judges of Superior Courts, in the event of a resolution being moved to remove such a judge, to provide for a procedure for investigations and.. |  11 Dec (LBO) Cinnamon Air, a domestic Sri Lanka based airline said it had added a sixth destination to its network with scheduled services started to Sigiriya. The flight from Sri Lanka's international airport in Katunayake will use Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft. Cinnamon Air said the 30 minute flight will reduce travel time from the capital to Sri Lanka's 'Cultural Triangle' area of ancient capitals and monuments by over three hours. Sigiriya, in the Matale district in Sri Lanka's.. |
 11 Dec (LBO) Sri Lanka will allow factories with effluents needing treatment only in industrial zones in the future, investments promotions minister Lakshman Abeywardene said. The move comes following protests over a glove factory run by Dipped Products, which residents claimed was releasing acidic water. The incident escalated after the state deployed the military against protesting villages and troops shot at unarmed villages led to the eventual closure of the factory up to now. Abeywardene.. | |
 11 Dec (Island) Arguably, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 05 December 2013), the iconic South African politician who ended up as the first black President of his country, was the greatest, and the most inspiring political leader in the whole world in the eyes of most if not all reasonably well informed ordinary Sri Lankans of my generation (now in our sixties). His second name ‘Rolihlahla’ is a colloquial term in his native Xhosa language meaning ‘troublemaker’, and in fact, as is.. |  11 Dec (DN) The Transport Ministry has formulated the draft Urban Transport Master Plan for the Colombo Metropolitan Region and the suburbs to address issues in the transport sector including heavy congestion in the Colombo city within the next 20 years. This plan containing short and medium and long term solutions to ease the traffic congestion in the city has been unveiled to the public through the ministry's website for public comments. The final plan is to be presented to the Cabinet by.. |
 11 Dec (DN) The key of the engine that plied from the Dematagoda Railway yard to Ratmalana without a driver last week, has been found in the tool room, Transport Minister Kumara Welgama said yesterday. Minister Welgama said that an unseen power might have been involved in the nocturnal run by the engine from Dematagoda Railway yard to Ratmalana without a driver. He said this is not the first time that this type of incident took place and trains plying without drivers might become 'the best.. |  9 Dec (SO) WELLINGTON, Dec 7, 2013: For South Africans, winning the 1995 Rugby World Cup final marked the emergence of the “Rainbow Nation” - for New Zealanders, it was the day Nelson Mandela single-handedly outpsyched the mighty All Blacks. The Jonah Lomu-inspired New Zealanders were red-hot favourites going into the decider, breezing through the group stages and humiliating England in the semi-finals. In contrast, the Springboks scraped through on the back of an unconvincing 19-15.. |
 9 Dec (ST) The phone on the desk of the Chief Railway Controller Nihal Ferdinands began to ring at around 1.45 a.m. The caller informed Ferdinands that a runaway train engine sans a driver was moving on the tracks and heading towards the southern coastline at a speed of around 5-10kph. The Chief Controller recalls that he alerted staff at all stations on the southern route on Thursday night: the instructions were to board the engine at the first opportunity – meaning should it slow down. This,.. |  9 Dec (ST) The one time Tripoli market in Pettah, Colombo is to be converted into an Information Technology (IT) park attracting a range of IT related companies, under an Urban Development Authority (UDA) project, a senior official said. UDA Urban Regeneration Project head E.A.C. Priyashantha told the Sunday Times that the project known as ‘iRACE’ had already commenced and was due to be completed in a year’s time. A 10 acre block of land will be made use of for the project where three separate.. |
 6 Dec (TheAustralian) NELSON Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, has died aged 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa's first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. His condition deteriorated and he died following.. |  6 Dec (Island) The government has decided to reclaim the Marawila beach from the sea by pumping sand. Director General of the Coast Conservation Department (CCD) Dr. Anil Premaratne said that though reclaiming land from the sea was expensive, the government had decided to launch the project for the benefit of fishermen in the area. To pump sand from the sea to reclaim a 1.8-kilometre stretch of coastline lost to sea erosion from Kurusekanuwa in Marawila towards Chilaw, the government would.. |
 6 Dec (DN) Sri Lanka will be the first country in South Asia to switch off analog television broadcasting and start digitalization with technical and financial support from the Japanese government, said Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Vice Minister Yoshizaki Masahiro. He was addressing a seminar on Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial (ISDB -T) in Colombo recently. The vice minister said Sri Lankas will watch Television Programs through crystal clear pictures. He.. |  6 Dec (DN) All government schools and government approved private schools will close today for the third term vacation. The schools will reopen on January 2 for the first school term of next year. However, the schools used for the Ordinary Level Examination 2013 answer script evaluation process will not reopen on January 2. The opening date of those schools and the schools, in which the evaluation of answer scripts are carried out will be notified later. Muslim and Tamil Medium schools will.. |
 6 Dec (DN) The Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka recently announced that the Australian government has abolished the permanent protection visas granted to illegal boat arrivals before, and vowed not to grant visas to anyone coming illegally by boats. "Australian Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison has announced the tough new measures for illegal boat arrivals on December 3 and anyone who arrived in Australia before July 19, 2013 is subject to tougher rules," sources.. |  3 Dec (LBO) Sri Lanka has signed up 105 investment agreements worth 1,942 million US dollars so far in 2013 and 870 million US dollars of foreign direct investments have flowed in by the third quarter, officials said. Investment promotions minister Lakshman Abeywardene said third quarter FDI was up 41 percent from a year earlier. China was the top investor with 25 percent followed by Hong Kong with 12 percent and Singapore 10 percent. There were also 118 deals worth 1,939 million dollars.. |
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