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Extra day off to grow crops in backyards in bid to forestall looming food shortage

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva was established in June 1965. The first Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Mr Rex Koelmeyer presented credentials on 23 June 1965.The present Ambassador/Permanent Representative H.E. Mr. Ravinatha Aryasinha presented credentials on 19 July 2012. The Mission functions as the Permanent delegation of Sri Lanka to all UN and other international organizations in Switzerland including the World Tra...

Rex Clementine at Pallekele Just as you began to think that Josh Hazlewood is emerging as the  best fast bowler in the world and in fact Australia’s pace attack is infallible, Dasun Shanka told us to hold on. On Saturday night he reminded us that only the Pope is infallible. We had started marveling the […]

Colombo Championships Tennis Yasitha de Silva will meet Luca Knese, while Dineshkanthan Thangarajah encounters Thehan Wijemanne in the semi-finals of the men’s singles of the Colombo Championships at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association courts today. In the two quarter-finals played on Sunday Wijemanne beat Rostam Ali 6-0, 6-1, while Dineshkanthan edged out Apna Perera 6-2, […]

Raja Jewellers, recognized as the undisputed monarch of the gold world introduces its latest men’s jewellery collection ‘Persona’ – a particular type of character that a person seems to have and that is often different from their real or private character – along with a promotion in celebration of Father’s Day. Raja Jewellers identified that...

Reaffirming its leadership in introducing state-of-the-art Mobile technology to Sri Lanka, SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT Solutions Provider, has expanded its 5G pre-commercial trial network across main cities in the country; setting a pathway for customers to experience the transformational power of 5G technology in both Mobile Broadband and Fixed Wireless Access domains. Customers with a...

Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has joined the list of players with injuries on their tour of Sri Lanka, with the charismatic cricketer suffering a calf injury before the third T20I which the hosts won by four wickets at Pallekele on ...

By Goolbai Gunesekere Sri Lankans are not known to be a cruel race, yet instances of outright wickedness are now rearing their ugly heads. We used to be shocked by the stories of little servant girls being abused by Sri Lankan housewives and viciously punished for minor infractions. I remember one case of a little […]

Sri Lanka team on Saturday created history by scoring 59 runs off 17 balls in a successful run chase against Australia in the third and final T20I in Kandy.

After his side four-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka in the final T20I of the three-match series, Australian head coach Andrew McDonald said that the side got a lit