When Sri Lankans, meaning the average cricket fan, initially heard of match-fixing it could have been somewhere around 1993-94, when their team toured India and lost all three Test matches, on the morning of the fourth day, literally with two days left.

One particular ...
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2013-05-25 02:00:00 Hits: (2) Comments (0)

Two thousand five hundred and sixty seven years ago, under the shadow of a Bo (Asatu) tree on Vesak Full Moon Day, Prince Siddhartha Gautama battled the demons of evil and attained what is now most reverently called 'Enlightenment.' The demons he had to banish from his mundane mind, among ...
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2013-05-24 02:00:00 Hits: (36) Comments (0)

According to many an unbiased observer, the token strike organized by the Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Alliance (CCTUA) was, if not a total flop, an embarrassing indictment on the incapacity of the most vital and critical sector that needs to be galvanized by the so-called ...
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2013-05-23 02:00:00 Hits: (63) Comments (0)

Minister Maithripala Sirisena, who also happens to be the General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), in his mighty haste to grab headlines, has let the cat out of the bag. By declaring that Party of the so-called 'commoner' has to be cleansed of all the dirt and debris it has been ...
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2013-05-22 02:00:00 Hits: (107) Comments (0)

The traditional Left has reportedly taken a collective decision not to support any constitutional amendment that would potentially weaken the powers vested with the Provincial Councils under the 13th Amendment. The Left parties collectively hold 12 Parliamentary seats in the governing coalition ...
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2013-05-21 02:00:00 Hits: (78) Comments (0)

Government moves to invite foreign universities to open up branches in Sri Lanka is to be welcomed and highly commended. It will be a boon to over 100,000 students who have been unable to gain access to university education in Sri Lanka due to the dearth of space in our universities to ...
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2013-05-20 02:00:00 Hits: (54) Comments (0)

That India would be concerned about reports of the Sri Lankan Government contemplating abolishing the 13th Amendment, prior to elections in the Northern Province, is understandable. The 13th Amendment is after all India's baby, and it has time and again urged Sri Lanka to uphold its commitment, ...
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2013-05-19 02:00:00 Hits: (25) Comments (0)

Are Sri Lankans seeing a revolution in sport and will it lead to what is known the world over as hooliganism? Not that Sri Lankan sport was free from such scourges. For years and decades, there had been assaults on players and match officials, crowd violence and field invasion, except a ...
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2013-05-18 02:00:00 Hits: (77) Comments (0)

Come Saturday, Sri Lanka will be commemorating the fourth anniversary of the military victory over the LTTE with appropriate pomp and pageantry. In fact, rehearsals for the victory parades have been in loud gear the past few days, causing massive traffic blocks, disrupting the daily movements of ...
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2013-05-17 02:00:00 Hits: (107) Comments (0)

It is not the first time and may not be the last where a reckless person drives his vehicle to be crushed by a passing train at a railway crossing. The tragedy that took place in Padukka on Tuesday morning was just one of many.
The driver not only drove himself to death, but also took the ...
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2013-05-16 02:00:00 Hits: (95) Comments (0)

Sri Lankan Airlines has signed a provisional deal with Airbus worth $ 1.3 billion to buy six A330-300 and four A350-900 aircraft between 2014 and 2023 to ...

The controversial right wing Sinhala Buddhist association, Ravana Balaya, has warned that steps will be taken to address the issue concerning a Japanese ...

Emirates will increase services to Colombo from June 30. This will increase the number of flights between the two cities to four each day on those ...

A 1 year and 4 months old infant who sustained injuries after being run over by a jeep in a house in the Tangalle area has died after being admitted to the ...

The National Investigations Department (DNI) of the Dominican Republic arrested members of a people trafficking network with possible links to international ...

On Thursday, the Q branch of the Tamil Nadu police, with the assistance of the Ernakulam North police, took 21 Sri Lankans who were about to sail to ...

A Buddhist monk has set himself on fire at the car park of a prominent Hotel close to Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy in protest against the slaughtering of ...

Thirty- three persons who had fallen ill due to food poisoning after attending a pooja at a Kovil in the Thirukovil area in Ampara have been admitted to the ...

Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has granted lawyers access to two Tamil asylum seekers who feared they would be removed to Sri Lanka.

Notwithstanding the fact that previous attempts to escape from refugee camps in search of greener pastures in Australia through the sea route had ...

The discipline instilled form Buddha;s teaching enabled our nation to achieve a great culture, bringing worldwide honor and respect to us as a nation states ...

A fire has erupted at a warehouse in the Colombo Harbour at around 1 this morning, the Police Media Unit told Ceylon Today Online.

Sri Lanka Railways incurs a minimum loss of Rs 370 million per year, mostly due to its poor financial management, the All Ceylon Railway Employees' ...

The Ministry of Buddha Sasana and Religious Affairs, has banned the sale of irreverent and scary masks during the Vesak season. The Secretary to the ...