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Govt Ready To Face False Allegations On War Crimes-President

Govt has taken steps to face internationally driven false allegations against the country on war crimes-President says in Diyatalawa-JNW

December 21, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Mahela, Dilshan Got Highest Offers In IPL Auction-report

Mahela Jayawardene and Tillekaratne Dilshan are the only Sri Lankan players to attract the highest reserve price of US $400,000 ahead of the IPL players’ auction which is to be held in Bangalore on January 8 and 9.  Altogether 21 players have been slotted in the highest bracket which includes West Indian legend Brian Lara who retired from international cricket four years ago and retired Australian great Adam Gilchrist.

Lasith Malinga who played for Mumbai Indians had earlier become the only Sri Lankan player among the 12 cricketers retained by their teams before the auction.  Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara who skippered Kings XI Punjab in the last IPL tournament has been slotted in the second highest category which has a reserve price of US $ 300,000.

The Players with a base price of US $ 400,000-   Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Shaun Marsh, James Anderson, Kevin Pietersen, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Yuvraj Singh, Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum, Ross Taylor, Graeme Smith, AB de Villiers, Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Brian Lara, Chris Gayle

December 21, 2010 at 6:46 am

අවසරයකින් ‌තොරව ‌පොල් ගස් කපාදැමීම තහනම්-ඇමති පුෂ්පකුමාර

‌පොල් සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩල‌යේ නිසි අවසරයකින් ‌තොරව ‌පොල් ගස් කපාදැමීම තහනම් කරන ගැසට් නි‌වේදනය ඉක්මනින් නිකුත්‌කෙ‌රේ-ඇමති පුෂ්පකුමාර

December 20, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Cutting Down Of Coconut Trees Banned-Minister

Cutting down of coconut trees without prior approval from Coconut Cultivation Board is  & gazette to be issued shortly-Minister-JNW

December 20, 2010 at 4:25 pm

Busiest Airports In Europe Cancel Hundreds Of Flights-report

The busiest airports in Europe are canceling hundreds of flights Sunday due to ‘freak weather conditions’ & heavy snow-report-JNW

December 19, 2010 at 4:39 pm

Main Suspect Of Rs70mil Cash Robbery Arrested-Police

Main suspect of the Rs70 million cash robbery at Peliyagoda three months ago arrested by CCD & CID-Police-JNW

December 18, 2010 at 7:20 pm

UN Sec. Gen’s Panel Facilitated To Make Representations To LLRC-Foreign Ministry

Foreign Ministry says if UN Sec. Gen’s panel wishes to make representations to LLRC, Ministry will make arrangements-reporter-JNW

December 18, 2010 at 5:08 pm

කොළඹ නගර‌යේ ආරක්‍ෂක කැමරා සඳුදා සිට ක්‍රියාත්මක ‌කෙ‌රේ-‌පොලිස්

අපරාධ මැධලීමට හා වාහන තදබදය වැළැක්වීමට ‌කොළඹ නගර‌යේ සවිකරන ලද ආරක්‍ෂක කැමරා සඳුදා සිට ක්‍රියාත්මක ‌කෙ‌රේ-‌පොලිස්

December 17, 2010 at 5:06 pm

CCTV Cameras In Colombo Activated From Monday-Police

CCTV cameras in Colombo city, installed to combat crime and ease traffic congestion, will be activated from Monday-Police-JNW

December 17, 2010 at 4:41 pm

UK Defence Secy’s Visit To Sri Lanka Postpones-report

UK Defence Secy Liam Fox postpones his private visit to Sri Lanka “due to extension of his official visit to Gulf”-report-JNW

December 17, 2010 at 7:56 am

Rescue Operation Underway In Gem Pit In Thihagoda-Police

Rescue underway in a gem pit in Thihagoda, Matara after it collapsed and one person missing, six others already rescued-Police-JNW

December 16, 2010 at 6:51 pm

Economy Grew Better-Than-Expected

Sri Lanka’s economy grew better-than-expected 8% in quarter to Sept 30, data shows; analysts expected 7.6% GDP growth-report-JNW

December 16, 2010 at 8:59 am

Operation To Arrest 50,000 Army Deserters-Military Spokesman

Operation to arrest 50,000 army deserters islandwide and rehabilitate them are underway, says Military Spokesman-JNW

December 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm

Around 60 IPOs Lined Up-report

Around 60 initial public offerings of shares (IPOs) lined up for 2011 is likely to increase the Colombo stock market’s size-report-JNW

December 14, 2010 at 6:04 pm

Senior Public Sector Employees Get Tax Free Vehicles-Finance Ministry

Finance Ministry says senior public sector employees can import new vehicles up to $25,000 at reduced import duty of 50% from Dec 15-JNW

December 14, 2010 at 5:21 pm

රජ‌යේ ‌නිළධාරීන්ට 50%ක් දක්වා වාහන ආනයන බදු සහන-මුදල් අමාත්‍යාන්ශය

‌රජ‌යේ ‌සේව‌යේ ‌ජේයෂ්ට නිළධාරීන්ට 50%ක් දක්වා වාහන ආනයන බදු සහන ‌‌ඩොලර් 25,000ක් ‌තෙක් ‌දෙසැම්බර් 15 සිට ලබා ‌දේ-මුදල් අමාත්‍යාන්ශය

December 14, 2010 at 4:10 pm

Renovation Of R. Premadasa Stadium In Final Stages-Minister Weerawansa

Renovation of R. Premadasa Stadium in final stages; State Engineering Corp. will complete work in 1st week of Jan-Min Weerawansa-JNW

December 14, 2010 at 3:32 pm