Old Royalists and Royal Ranabima qualified to meet in the final of the SLT National Knockout Baseball Tournament 2013 which got underway at the Colombo Campus ground yesterday.

Army and Maroons will battle in the third place ...
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S. Thomas’ College beat St. Joseph’s College 39-17 in their annual inter-school rugby match for the Lady Jayatilleke Shield at Havelock Park last evening.

The match was overall a scrappy affair with no side able to produce anything sparkling as ...
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2013-06-16 15:37:00 Hits: (24) Comments (0)

By T.B. Rahaman

Royal beat Trinity by 13 points to nine in the second-leg of the 69th Bradby Shield rugby encounter but the Kandy school took the Shield by virtue of a bigger score margin of nine points to three at the Royal Sports Complex in Colombo ...
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2013-06-16 15:34:00 Hits: (59) Comments (0)

by Anjana Kaluarachchi

Air Force athlete Anjana Gunarathna put up the best timing of the year in the men’s 400m as he clocked 46.83 seconds in the 400m at the national trials held yesterday at the Sugathadasa Stadium in ...
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2013-06-16 15:31:00 Hits: (11) Comments (0)

By Hafiz Marikar

When will Kandy’s football reach its past glory? This is the talk among the football lovers in the hills or what is left of them? The man who has been put in charge of Kandy football is from Gampola. He has been given the green-light ...
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2013-06-16 13:28:00 Hits: (15) Comments (0)

Dynamic Motors PVT LTD, sole agents for Motul lubricants has announced its sponsorship for champion racing driver Ashan Silva with Magni Holdings and promising top rider Ned Daniel under Team Fahrenheit in 2013 race season.

Ashan Silva is currently Sri ...
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2013-06-13 02:00:00 Hits: (41) Comments (0)

by Asanka Gammanpila

Sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday directed the Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association (SLSRFA) to come under the care of the sport's parent body the Sri Lanka ...
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Despite poor weather conditions the Milo Schools Netball finals began at the Piliyandala MMV ground yesterday with 125 teams having qualified for the second round in three age categories in divisions A and B.

The A division saw 31 schools qualify in the ...
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2013-06-09 16:40:00 Hits: (32) Comments (0)

By Hafiz Marikar

Kandy Sports Club led by Gayan Weeraratne will be fielding a well balanced side for the 2013 season coached by Neil Foote and assisted by Sean Wijasinghe.

The team manger will be Kapila Silva with ...
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by Anjana Kaluarachchi

A 15-year old girl from an obscure village in Talpe in the south of Sri Lanka came into the limelight first when she put in an amazing performance to run the 400 metres in 57 seconds in the Under-16 at the John Tarbet athletic ...
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2013-06-09 16:26:00 Hits: (25) Comments (0)

With monetary aid from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 1,600 Sri Lankan Tamils living in Tamil Nadu as refugees have ...

 Leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF), Minister Wimal Weerawansa, admitted the country cannot completely do away ...

The government has slashed the fertilizer subsidy by 33%, but has not provided an alternate solution, farmer organizations alleged.

The Exchange Control Department of the Central Bank, said individuals and corporates were permitted to invest funds overseas, while maintaining off-shore ...

Prassana Vithanage's seventh feature film Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka (With you, without you) will have its Russian premier at the 35th Moscow International Film ...

Eighty people were detained by the Sri Lanka Navy yesterday for attempting to illegally migrate to Australia.

The National Unity Alliance (NUA), today claimed the only reason the government took   immediate action taken against North Western Provincial ...

Inviting the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to appear before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) with their concerns regarding the 13th Amendment to the ...

Three persons have died, while two children are in a critical condition when a bus carrying over 70 children had fallen off a cliff along the Nuwara- Eliya ...

The student who had stabbed a female lecturer of the Law Faculty at the Open University in Nawala today has been arrested by the Mirihana Police, the Police ...

UPDATED -A female lecturer from the Law Faculty of the Open University in ...

UPFA MP Duminda Silva arrived in Parliament a short while ago, after an absence of one- and –a- half- years.

Supporters of UPFA MP Duminda Silva have gathered around Parliament roundabout to welcome the MP, who will be arriving in Parliament in a short ...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed all Ministers and MPs of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party to cancel their foreign tours and devote time for the ...