Sri Lanka News Explorer
Last 7 Days
Older News
- Older than 2023-Dec (24)
Narrow by Category
- Business (24)
Sri Lanka proud hosts of popular and shorter form of most entertaining tournament played in Asia for the first time; 20-teams, 20-day cricket fiesta ICC World T20 kicks off tomorrow Mega boost for tourism as 500 players and officials alone to take up 9,000 room-nights; hundreds of overseas fans, global sponsor officials and media to ...
- ESPN STAR Sports bags multi-year broadcasting rights for Sri Lanka Premier League (Category: Business)
- ICC launches World Twenty 20 Sri Lanka 2012 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to host World T20 2012 (Category: Sports)
- ICC announces WT20 warm-up schedule (Category: Business)
Emmanuel Ray is a London-based presenter and socialite. He won Fashion Icon of the Year award at Fashions Finest Awards UK, 2011. He was named Britain’s First ‘It Boy’ by BBC entertainment correspondent Paul Conway. He regularly contributes on line and on air and hosts a variety
- The fashion for turning junk into art (Category: Technology)
- When fashion meets technology (Category: Technology)
- Old fashion has a new inspiration (Category: South Australia)
- 3 questions to ask before you buy new clothes - CNET (Category: Technology)
Reuters: Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran 19.58 seconds for victory in the 200 metres at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday while Yohan Blake equalled the third fastest time ever to win the 100 in 9.69. The effervescent Bolt performed the air guitar as he was presented to the crowd before predictably dominating the ...
- Bolt ready to prove 2012 naysayers wrong (Category: Business)
- Bolt to race in Rome in preparation for Olympics (Category: Business)
- “No worries” as Bolt blocks out bad starts (Category: Business)
- Bolt sets year’s fastest time for 100 (Category: Business)
Playing off India against China and vice versa‘The Great Game’ was the name given to a diplomatic and military tussle between the British and Russian empires during the time of the British Raj in India for influence over what constitutes today’s central Asian states. Commonly known as the ‘Stan states,’ they were located along the ...
- Fearing political pressure, Sri Lanka president wants to avoid trade integrations with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is no pearl on China’s string: President (Category: Business)
- From defence sales to electricity grids, India upgrades Lanka ties (Category: Business)
- In bid to counter China, US ramps up effort to boost military ties in Asia (Category: Breaking News)
Live the thrills and spills of the London Olympics from the comfort of your home as Dialog Television (DTV); Sri Lanka’s leading Direct-to-Home (DTH) Digital Satellite TV service is broadcasting the 2012 Olympic Games in High Definition for the first time in Sri Lanka on ESPN HD (High Definition). DTV customers who have subscribed to ...
- Sri Lanka’s first HD broadcast launched by Dialog TV (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Ranked 97 in HD Index (Category: Breaking News)
- Earth's gravity pictured in 'HD' (Category: Technology)
- Watch Sri Lanka vs Pakistan game 2011 live stream online free on PC in HD (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: The Olympics kick off on Wednesday with a women’s soccer match between Britain and New Zealand in Cardiff, and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, hero of the Beijing Games and the fastest man on earth, vowed to win again, declaring: “This is my time”. The match in the Welsh capital comes two days before Friday’s ...
- Bolt ready to prove 2012 naysayers wrong (Category: Business)
- Bolt to race in Rome in preparation for Olympics (Category: Business)
- Bolt eyes 9.7s at 100m in Ostrava (Category: Business)
- Olympic legends back Blake to upset Bolt (Category: Business)
Gearing up to grab international attention with new song ‘Game Over’Q: What’s happening on your end, Yashan? A: Well I’m working on my third studio album these days. I will be releasing a brand English new song this weekend titled ‘Game Over’. I am also in the process of producing a song for Shanudrie, one ...
- Official event song of ICC World T20 Sri Lanka 2012 launched (Category: Business)
- Video: Maharaja Gemunu Movie - Theme Song (Sanda Payanne) (Category: Video)
- Video: Thaniwenna Ba Aye Jude Rogans (Category: Video)
- Video: Ape Ahinsaka Adare - Amarasiri Peiris (Category: Video)
Dialog Television (DTV), Sri Lanka’s leading Direct-to-Home (DTH) Digital Satellite TV service recently announced the introduction of the country’s first HD (High Definition) broadcast, leading Sri Lanka into the era of advance digital media. With enhanced picture quality, vivid colours, sharper images and Dolby digital surround sound; the HD service will enable DTV subscribers to ...
- Sri Lanka Ranked 97 in HD Index (Category: Breaking News)
- Panasonic launches FULL HD 3D Viera Plasma TV in Sri Lanka together with Softlogic (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Nidahase Inna Umaria n Devashrie Full HD www Music lk (Category: Video)
- Video: Hoda Kale Samanthi Sagarika Full HD www Music lk (Category: Video)
Reuters: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country’s full transformation to democracy was still far off. “What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other ...
- Aung San Suu Kyi released (Category: Breaking News)
- Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes historic debut in Parliament (Category: Business)
- Suu Kyi says ready to lead Myanmar to democracy (Category: Business)
- Suu Kyis release a lesson to Sri Lankas leaders - Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
The government of the Maldives is said to be looking for funding from the private sector for an advertising campaign to boost its tourism industry following turmoil earlier this year when its elected president was forced from office in what he later claimed was a coup. A report in Minivan News said the government had ...
- Maldives repositions with new tourism slogan, logo (Category: Business)
- Maldivian Dy President meets with President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives denies luxury spas are fronting prostitution (Category: Business)
- Seminar on bilateral trade between Maldives and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Reuters: Spain will try to become the first team to win three successive major international titles while Germany will hope to lift their first trophy since 1996 when Euro 2012 kicks off on Friday. The backdrop of the three-week tournament being staged by Poland and Ukraine across a vast stretch of eastern Europe has already ...
- Untroubled Spain set up Portugal semi (Category: Business)
- Spain eye unique treble as Euros loom (Category: Business)
- Germany, Portugal secure quarter-final berths (Category: Business)
- Spain’s Iniesta named Euro 2012’s best player (Category: Business)
LONDON (Reuters): Britain’s Prince Charles paid a personal tribute to his “mama”, Queen Elizabeth, lauding her for providing stability as Britain prepares for four days of public celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne. “The Diamond Jubilee gives us the chance to celebrate with pride all that the queen means ...
- Video: Chandi Mama - Paul Goonewardene (Category: Video)
- Military bids farewell to the 'Flag Mama' (Category: USA, California)
- Video: Ma Nowana Mama With Kumari Munasinghe (Category: Video)
- Video: Ma Nowana Mama With Kumari Munasinghe (Category: Video)
Emmanuel Ray, winner of Fashions Finest’s Fashion Icon of the Year award (2011), has been asked to officially open Gibraltar Fashion Week commencing 19 April 2012. Emmanuel will meet with fashion designers, press and a selection of important members of the Gibraltarian government. Reene Weston, designer and organiser had the following to say about why she chose ...
- Fashion icon last year! (Category: Business)
- ‘The Fashion Circle.com’ launched in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Darshi to showcase at Russia Fashion Week (Category: Business)
To commemorate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, the Prefects’ Guild and senior students of the Colombo International School present ‘Smike: The Musical’ on 9 and 10 March. ‘Smike’, a pop musical based on Dickens’ novel ‘Nicholas Nickleby’, was created by composer Simon May, in collaboration with Roger Holman and Clive Barnett in 1973. It follows ....
- Musical ‘Smike’ from Colombo International School (Category: Business)
- Charity Musical Show for Wellness Resort (Category: Breaking News)
- Brandix Annual Group Awards and Volleyball Championship Finals (Category: Business)
- “Musicians’ Nite” at Margarita Blue (Category: Business)
To commemorate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, the Prefects’ Guild and senior students of the Colombo International School present ‘Smike: The Musical’ on 9 and 10 March. ‘Smike’, a pop musical based on Dickens’ novel ‘Nicholas Nickleby’, was created by composer Simon May, in collaboration with Roger Holman and Clive Barnett in 1973. It follows ....
- CIS presents an adaptation of the musical ‘Smike’ (Category: Business)
- “Musicians’ Nite” at Margarita Blue (Category: Business)
- Benedictines mega show ‘CUBE’ from 15 to 17 September (Category: Business)
- ‘Rebirth’ rocks at the ‘Margarita Blue’ (Category: Business)
Media organisations in Sri Lanka have urged the authorities to investigate all recent attacks on media personnel and institutions. The watchdogs say they will stage a protest on 25 January in Colombo against a series of attacks against media personnel in recent years. It will especially mark “Black January” during which many prominent media personnel ...
- Media protest confined to Fort station compound (Category: Breaking News)
- Media groups to mark 'Black January' (Category: Breaking News)
- Pro-govt demonstration against media protest (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Navy denies another alleged attack on Indian fishermen (Category: Breaking News)
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)
(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)
Offering epic safari adventures, Chaaya Wild transcends expectations and enthrals nature enthusiastsBy Marianne David If there’s one message that Yala reinforces, it’s the fact Sri Lanka is so abundantly blessed – a miracle in many ways. Despite its rising position as a hotspot for leopards being temporarily halted in its tracks during the latter stages ...
- Leisure laughs! (Category: Business)
- Chitral’s take on Chaaya Wild and the wild (Category: Business)
- Project Leopard: Chaaya Wild’s responsible tourism drive (Category: Business)
‘World Chall-enge’ is a global contest conducted by BBC TV, Newsweek and Shell. During its six-year existence, Sri Lanka has been able to win the top prize not once, but twice. In 2006, it was ‘Maximus,’ a firm making paper out of elephant dung, that won this prestigious
- Jana Aragalaya now ‘Frontline Socialist Party’ (Category: Breaking News)
- For tourism, after BRICs, Lanka-included SLIMMA is the best (Category: Business)
- Results of 2012 SAARC Film Awards (Category: Business)
- ‘The Artist’ Wins Producers Guild’s Best Picture Award (Category: Business)
Sri Lankan represents global team of entrepreneursAspirations Edu-cation’s General Manager Deepamala Abeysekera became the only Sri Lankan to represent a group of 30 entrepreneurs in the world from, USA, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa, to read for her postgraduate studies in entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge has acquired an international reputation as an ...
- University of Cambridge International Examinations meets stakeholders (Category: Business)
- Cambridge Ruskin International College introduces Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees in Camb... (Category: Breaking News)
- Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, yesterday took delivery of its first A330-200 aircraft retrofitted with Panasonic Avionics Corporation’s (Panasonic) Global Communications Suite. The comprehensive communications and entertainment solution, ‘Sky Hub’, offers passengers onboard full broadband connectivity to access internet, mobile phone services and, for t...
- SIA invests $ 400 m for next-gen in-flight entertainment systems (Category: Business)
- Emirates continues roll-out of inflight product innovations (Category: Business)
- Emirates launches A380 connectivity (Category: Business)
- Emirates in-flight entertainment wins Skytrax Award (Category: Business)
According to latest report of Global Peace Index (GPI), Sri Lanka ranked 126 while Norway ranked in ninth place. Here we are talking about the riots that took place in UK recently and the same GPI ranked the UK in 26th place (100 places ahead of Sri Lanka). A series of incidents erupted in England ...
- SL among top 5, best for weddings – Kouni (Category: Business)
- Why does Sri Lanka need more tourists from China? (Category: Business)
- Terrorism Risk Index 2011: Sri Lanka safer than UK (Category: Breaking News)
- SL’s human development record improves (Category: Business)
A son of Muammar Gaddafi, previously reported captured, made a surprise appearance with jubilant supporters in Tripoli overnight, urging loyalists to fight off rebels who say they control most of the Libyan capital. Saif al-Islam, seen as his father’s chosen successor, visited the Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are staying to declare that the government ...
- “Zero hour” for Gaddafi as besieged Tripoli rises up (Category: Business)
- Price on Gaddafi’s head as rebels plan for future (Category: Business)
- All Sri Lankan workers return from Libya (Category: Business)
- Muammar Gaddafi dead of wounds following capture - Reuters (Category: Breaking News)
Popular Topics
- International Monetary Fund (13)
- Political crisis (5)
- Foreign exchange reserves (2)
- Bank reserves (1)
- Fuel (1)
- Economy of Sri Lanka (13)
- Russia (3)
- Ukraine (1)
- Sri Lanka Tea (11)
- Tourism (4)
- Sri Lanka Quality Tea (13)
- Sri Lanka Tourism (12)
- Sri Lanka Cricket (11)
- Sri Lanka Hotels (11)
- Sri Lanka Elections (11)
- Sirasa (1)
- Hiru Tv (24)
- ITN News (5)
- Shakthi Tv (24)
- Derana Dream Star (4)
- BBC (24)
- Amanda Knox (1)