In Sri Lanka campaigning in the early 1880s to have Vesakha made a public holiday continually failed until Colonel Olcott went to London to petition the British authorities and finally succeeded in 1885. Malaysian Buddhists hardly celebrated it at all …
McCaskil, who is the High Performance Manager with Cricket Victoria, will arrive in Colombo later this month and will work with the fast bowling coaches first. The following week he will travel to Kandy where the Sri Lankan team will conduct an eight-d…
( April 28, 2018, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) France likes to call itself America’s oldest and closest ally. Indeed, the American Revolution might never have succeeded without strong French military support. However, France bankrupted itself supporting the American Revolution. This, in turn, helped ignite …
Sri Lanka’s fifth league match will be against defending champions Australia at The Oval on 15 June, before they meet hosts England at Headingley on 21 June. Durham will host Sri Lanka for their seventh and eighth league matches which will be held on 28 June and 1 July against South Africa and the …
The PHI Union of Sri Lanka says that 2,625 dansal have been registered island-wide for the Vesak celebrations this year. … Deputy General Manager of Sri Lanka Railways, Wijaya Samarasinghe said that special train services will be operating from Colom…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s investigation into the controversial MiG aircraft purchase has extended to Singapore and Australia as police listed charges against four foreigners in addition to former president Mahinda Rajapaks’a cousin Udayanga Weeratunga. Two nationals each from Singapore and …
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank killed 19 billion rupees of printed money Friday selling down its Treasury bill stock to 50.53 billion rupees from 69.11 billion rupees, which analysts say will help support the rupee. The aggregate balance of the banking system dropped to 3.53 billion rupees on …
Apr 28, Colombo: The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, Dr. Shahid Ahmad Hashmat says both Sri Lanka and Pakistan have potential to increase bilateral trade volume and stressed the need to carve out ways and means to exploit the available pote…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to finish at number three in the South Asian Under-12 Tennis Championship that concluded in Nepal on Friday. After getting beaten by Nepal 1-2 in the semi-final on Thursday, Pakistan brushed aside Sri Lanka 2-0 to fin…
Authorities say Japan has rejected a stock of tea exported by Sri Lanka citing that the stock contained chemical substances more than what has … The Chairman of Sri Lanka Tea Board Lusil Wijewardene said now the tea planters are using MCPA as a weed …