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Dec 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has promised to resolve the issue of delayed payment of salaries to the players of the national cricket team next week, BBC reported.
Srilankamirror - The International Cricket Council (ICC) has said it is currently discussing with the international cricket players union to look for a solution to the non-payment of Sri Lanka player salaries. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has told the BBC Sinhala service in October that the players
- Chamara Silva called up as injury cover (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura Tennakoon to be replaced by Ranjith Fernando? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ashantha de Mel reappointed chief selector (Category: Breaking News)
- Thilanga comes down hard on Interim Committees (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Questioning the arrest of an Indian nun over a baby farm allegation, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has decided to boycott all government functions in protest over the incident. The Colombo archbishop told the media that he has serious questions over the conduct of the National Child Protection Authority, police and the media regarding the charge against ‘Prem Nivasa’...
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
CARDIFF (AFP): In an era where even the backs are bulky, Test rugby will say goodbye to one man who has proved rugby can still be a game for all sizes when Shane Williams plays his final match for Wales this weekend. The Ospreys back, for whom the phrase ‘diminutive wing’ might have been coined, ...
- England cricket team signs unique 10-year sponsorship deal (Category: Business)
- French have history and pedigree to upset All Blacks (Category: Business)
- RWC Sevens 2013 to take place in Moscow 28-30 June (Category: Business)
- Rugby World Cup hits revenue target (Category: Business)
Srilankamirror - A 30-year-old Sri Lankan has died after being stabbed in the neck while working in a Merseyside store, the BBC reports. Merseyside Police said the man was found with a knife wound to his neck at Stanley News on Kingsway in Huyton at about 21:00 GMT on Tuesday
- Former Mississippi Gov. William F. Winter dies at 97 (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- March on Capitol costs Georgia man his job at car dealership (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- March on Capitol costs Georgia man his job at car dealership (Category: USA, Maryland)
- March on Capitol costs Georgia man his job at car dealership (Category: USA, Maine)
Reuters: Sky television will launch a dedicated pay TV Formula One channel in Britain next year with live coverage of every race in high definition (HD) and without the interruption of advertisements, the broadcaster announced on Friday. Sky said it would show every practice and qualifying session live on Sky Sports F1 HD when the ...
- Astronomy apps (Category: Technology)
- WeatherTalk: The great conjunction approaches (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- WeatherTalk: The great conjunction approaches (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- WeatherTalk: The great conjunction approaches (Category: USA, North Dakota)
At least 65 Tamil prisoners in Anuradhapura are on a hunger strike seeking proper protection, the BBC news reported Former Jaffna district parliamentarian MK Sivajilingam speaking to BBC said the prisoners launched a protest after being assaulted by the prison officials on Sunday
- Joseph Stalin's deadly railway to nowhere (Category: Technology)
- Host Nation (Category: Business)
- Prison costly and dangerous (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Christmas Freedom (Category: Business)
M.K. Sivajilingam has told BBC Sandeshaya that the prisoners have launched a protest after being assaul...
- 1,450 prisoners freed on Independence Day (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil prisoners at A’pura Prison beaten up (Category: Breaking News)
- No visits for Tamil prisoners on Thaipongal day (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Fonseka lives a life of luxury at prison’ (Category: Breaking News)
Srilankamirror - The Road Development Authority (RDA) has said there may be a few lapses in the Southern Expressway since it is the country’s first expressway. Head of the RDA, Ranjith Premasiri has told BBC that there may be a few lapses. “This is the first (such) experience
- No Kusa Paba in Anuradhapura (Category: Breaking News)
- Parents take to streets in protest (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian culture ministry blocks Kandy museum project (Category: Breaking News)
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
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right to contest the upcoming elections for SLC. Sumathipala has told BBC Sandeshsaya that former interim ...
- Thilanga to run for cricket presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Thilanga to hand in nominations today (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket interim committee dissolved, competent authority appointed (Category: Breaking News)
- Thilanga’s supporters hand in cricket nominations (Category: Breaking News)
Srilankamirror - The JVP, which supported the government’s war against the LTTE has called for an investigation into alleged war crimes. JVP Leader, Somawansa Amerasinghe has told BBC Sandeshaya that the party supports the recent statement by the Defence Secretary that accountability
- No alliance with UNP - JVP (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP invites dissidents to central committee meeting (Category: Breaking News)
- Notice issued on Somawansa, JVP central committee (Category: Breaking News)
- WASL to organize a protest march to Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters) – Tests and Twenty20s are the future of international cricket and 50-overs matches should be scrapped, according to England spinner Graeme Swann. “I think one-day cricket will have to give at some point,” he told the BBC. “I don’t think that game should carry
- ICC should make call on Decision Review System: Clarke (Category: Business)
- MCC says putting off Test Championship a setback (Category: Business)
- Weary Brett Lee quits international cricket (Category: Business)
- Pietersen wants to dominate world cricket (Category: Business)
injuries to his aged mother. The attack comes hours after an interview by Mr. Anaimukan to BBC Tamil ...
Students and enthusiasts attending a recording for BBC Radio 4 have probably seen a new state of matter only recently discovered, an expert says.
A poll for the BBC indicates a small and diminishing appetite around the world for building new nuclear reactors, although the UK bucks the trend.
(BBC) Conservationists in Sri Lanka have welcomed a decision by US-based multinational food firm Dole to abandon plans for a huge banana plantation. Campaigners say Dole had hoped to team up with a local company, Letsgrow Ltd, to plant the bananas in Somawathiya National Park. The park is home
- Tassie dole queues grow (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Off the dole and on to mine sites? (Category: Western Australia)
- Dole cheat hardline (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Dole bludger 'myth' hit (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Sri Lankan conservationists couldnt be happier at the news of multinational food firm Dole based in the US abandoning plans to start a banana plantation at a national park, the BBC website reported. Conservationists quoted by the site said Dole had hoped to team up with a local company
- Dole bludger 'myth' hit (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Tassie dole queues grow (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Animal games of carpark ticket cheats (Category: South Australia)
- Security camera captures woman walking away with toddler (Category: USA, Washington)
A bizarre underwater 'icicle of death' has been captured on camera by BBC filmmakers.
A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" is captured on camera for the first time by BBC filmmakers.
NEW Zealand is a stronger country brand than Australia, an international survey shows. FutureBrand’s country brand index, which is run in association with BBC World News, assessed 113 countries. The latest annual index released at the World Travel Market in London on Thursday (UK time) rated
- Russell Brand Gets Spiritual On New Late Night Show (Category: Features)
- Global Recognition for Janashakthi at 19th World Brand Congress for the second consecutive year (Category: Breaking News)
- Hameedia strikes Silver for ‘Local Brand of the Year’ at SLIM Awards 2011 (Category: Business)
- Wheels in motion for SLIM Brand Excellence Awards 2012 (Category: Business)
"The ban on TamilNet is the first instance of what the Free Media Movement believes may soon be a slippery slope of web and internet censorship in Sri Lanka," BBC reported on 20th June 2007 when local reports indicated that access to TamilNet was blocked by unannounced directives to service
An enjoining order against TNL TV and Isira Radio, and its chairman Shan Wickremesinghe was issued by the Colombo District Judge Ranjith Wathupola preventing them from carrying any ‘defamatory statements’ against managing director of Triad (Pvt) Ltd., Dilith Jayaweera. Jayaweera has sent a letter of demand of Rs500 million to Shan Wickremesinghe and his co-host Sudath Jaysundera for making defama...
Will the LLRC report re-write history? Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission will issue its report soon (hopefully to the public). It is not necessary to mention leaks; it is enough to simply look at the initial statement of purpose. “To inquire and report on the following matters that may have taken place during ...
- Amnesty demands Sri Lanka war crimes probe (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says Pre-judgment of LLRC's outcome by AI unacceptable and unwarranted (Category: Breaking News)
- The UN Panel’s Report On Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- FULL ACCOUNTING TO DEAL WITH WAR CRIMES CHALLENGES (Category: Breaking News)
(Reuters) – Embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter apologised for his controversial comments about racism on Friday but said he would not be resigning despite a growing clamour in Britain for him to step down. “It hurts and I am still hurting because I couldn’t envisage such a reaction,” the 75-year-old head of world soccer’s governing ...
- Platini will be a good FIFA president, says Blatter (Category: Business)
- Scourge of match-fixing getting worse, says Blatter (Category: Business)
- Swiss court orders FIFA to release ISL documents (Category: Business)
- FIFA frets over pace of Brazil World Cup building work (Category: Business)
Sarath Fonseka, the former army Chief who led the Sri Lankan Army to completely wipe out the LTTE has been jailed for three years for implicating the government in war crimes. The court has ruled out that he lent credence to allegations the defence secretary ordered Tamil Tigers to be killed as they tried to surrender ...
- Sri Lanka’s Ex-Army General to write his autobiography (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Fonseka released from jail (Category: Breaking News)
- Fonseka’s Secretary to be indicted (Category: Breaking News)
- Former Army Chief ordered in Courts to hand over HiCorp fraud charges (Category: Breaking News)
Colombo is beefing up security ahead of the delivery of the verdict in the controversial white flag case against former army commander General Sarath Fonseka. While there are reports that a key witness against Fonseka has fled the country in fear on a Cathay Pacific Flight bound for Hong Kong, police have also moved in a ...
- Verdict on white flag case against Sri Lanka's former Army Commander on Friday (Category: Breaking News)
- Verdict of Sri Lanka's white flag case tomorrow; main witness leaves country (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Supreme Court to hear former Army Commander's appeal against verdict (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Supreme Court names a five-judge bench to hear White Flag appeal next month (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Hirunika Premachandra has welcomed the court order to arrest MP Duminda Silva in connection with the killing of her father, presidential advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. Speaking to the BBC from an undisclosed location outside Sri Lanka, she has said that the news
- Hirunika Premachandra to enter politics from SLMP (Category: Breaking News)
- Mother opposes Hirunika’s political entry (Category: Breaking News)
- Hirunika returns home (Category: Breaking News)
- Police ordered to probe Bharatha family death threats (Category: Breaking News)
BBC Sandeshaya says that it reliably learns that a brand new Aston Martin car has been hurriedly imported to Colombo by a wealthy businessman. The new Rs. 55 million sports car has been brought using a specially chartered aeroplane from UK. Former Sri Lanka Cricket chairman Upali Dharmadasa
- Lakshman Hulugalle says Duminda Silva 'not a suspect' (Category: Breaking News)
- Dilith sends LoD to BBC Sandeshaya (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Govt. not under pressure from India’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Prisoners commence hunger strike (Category: Breaking News)
A brand new Aston Martin car has been hurriedly imported to Colombo by a wealthy businessman, BBC Sandeshaya reliably learns.
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