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Sri Lanka girls’ team consisting of Arushi Thomas, Dinara de Silva and Oneli Samarawickrama beat their Singaporean counterparts to qualify for the final qualifying round to be held in Thailand next month as they emerged group ‘B’ champions in the fourteen and under ITF World Junior Competition Asia/ Oceania Pre-Qualifying round continued at the Sri […]
Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation will conduct the first Central Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament as part of its plans to conduct volleyball and beach volleyball tournaments to celebrate the 75th Independence Day. The Volleyball Federation said in a statement that the tournament is a brainchild of Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa. The first Central Asian Beach Volleyball […]
It was with a sense of awe, admiration and joy that I read the piece by Capt. Elmo Jayawardene in The Island of 25 Oct. 2021, on the achievements of Dr Pahalagedera Jayathilaka, a handicapped youth from almost the wilderness in a village called Dandu Bendi Ruppa in Nuwara Kalaviya who had achieved almost the […]
by Sujeeva Nivunhella in London There was a time Douglas Wickramaratne, President of the Sinhala Association in the UK, had to be given protection by Scotland Yard after he came under threat for exposing the blatant falsehoods propagated by the LTTE to win the support of the international community. Despite the machinations of the powerful pro-LTTE lobby at the time, the warrior that he was, Wickramaratne held his ground and pushed ahead with his concerted campaign to lay bare the atrocities of the terrorists and expose to the world the campaign of brutal terror perpetrated by the Tigers. Man...