Fazil Marija, the Outstanding Rugby player. Fly half Fazil Marija, one of the finest rugby players produced by Kandy Sports Club in the last two decades started playing rugby at the age of 10 years at his Alma Mater, Kingswood College,Kandy under the Coaches, A.C.Tennakoon, former Police Rugby Player Asela ...

Any re-connection with our ancient village concept, should also primarily enable the creation of new ideas so that it is juxtaposed with the old but where the end result would not be that the village yearns to be like the town, but rather where the soulless town aims to become ...

eLanka is proud to showcase a new programme called Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo. It’s sort of a weekly digital magazine type video programme which gets uploaded every Friday on YouTube. Savithri has a small short and snappy news section called News Capsule, a longer (6 minutes or so) segment called ...

Source:Island Sustainability activist and social entrepreneur Anoka Abeyratne has been elected as the Environmental Lead for the Royal Commonwealth Society. She is the first Sri Lankan to have been so elected. A Forbes under 30, the first female World Economic Forum New Champion of Sri Lanka and the youngest Commonwealth ...

Source:Island From Panadura to Ratnapura the bus takes three hours to complete the ride. It goes through Horana, Ingiriya, Idangoda, Kiriella, and Kahangama before reaching its destination. The bus stop at Ratnapura is largely empty after six in the evening, and after eight there’s no one. It was raining last ...

Source:Island We will be humble enough to learn the magic formula for running Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) at a profit if anyone is capable of getting it done ‘under the prevailing conditions’, former chairman and media spokesman of the Planters Association, Dr. Roshan Rajadurai told The Island Financial Review. “This doesn’t ...

Source:Island On the above distressing subject, there was an editorial in this newspaper in September, rightly calling the auctioning of our Police Dogs a NATIONAL SHAME, and requesting the authorities to recall the dogs into the Police Kennels for their life-long care. Many animal welfarists and lovers petitioned the President, ...

  Here is a little ditty that was a minor hit for Jerry Guthrie. I Saw Linda was written by Jerry and the musical arrangement was by Glen Campbell. Thank you to all those lovely folk who requested me to record this particular song, and I truly hope you enjoy ...

Donald Trump has taken the USA down an abyss of despair and duplicity. Domestic divisions and international disorder dominated the Trump era. Many questioned the sanity of Trump’s approach to governance, nationally and internationally. Now, more than 80 million voters and popular vote majority in excess of 7 million, and ...