Sri Lanka’s Nimali Liyanaraachchi having a light workout at a nearby Tokyo venue TOKYO, July 28. – Middle distance runner Nimali Liyanaraachchi will become the first Sri Lankan 800m athlete to compete at the Olympic Games in 29 years when she competes at Tokyo 2020 Games on Friday (30). Prior ...
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Source:Island Two-lane bidirectional flyover along Uttarananda Mawatha will be 558m in length Two-lane unidirectional flyover along Justice Akbar Mawatha will be 300m Project scheduled for completion by mid-2022 Maga Engineering has begun construction of two new flyovers in Slave Island (Colombo 02), along Justice Akbar Mawatha and Uttarananda Mawatha. The ...
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Source:Island “Which subject did you have most difficulties with, having switched the medium of instruction from Sinhala to English?” I posed this question to a Sri Lankan student who was following a pre-University course in an educational institution in Hong Kong, having completed studies up to the GCE Ordinary Level ...
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Importance of knowing your Lymphatic system in the present COVID Endemic-by Harold Gunatillake Lymphatic system is an additional subsystem ‘pipeline’ network to the circulatory system that has a hand in glove relationship. Lymphatic system is composed of a network of minute vessels like threads, and lymph glands. If you compared ...
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Source:Island Sir Don Bradman called him the ‘greatest cricketing being to have ever walked the earth,’ and in Sri Lanka, he is considered as someone who shaped the careers of many players. Sir Garry Sobers turns 85 today. He was hired by the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri ...
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Source:Island I was intrigued reading the views of an MP where she seems to believe that the old iron bridges, built by the British throughout Sri Lanka, could be developed and made into very attractive tourist destinations. And, what’s more, she even drew comparison between the bridges in Sri Lanka ...
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Source:Island When the men’s 10,000 metres was held at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Sri Lanka’s Ranatunga Karunananda was the last to finish but he won the admiration of the hosts. His courageous run to complete the race after the winners had been decided, epitomize the Olympic creed- the most ...
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Source:-island.lk Cheerleader Percy Abeysekara turns 85 today. In his own words, ‘two years younger than Sir Garry Sobers and fitter than Sobers.’ Percy has been around cricket grounds cheering his beloved Sri Lanka and his favourite players for over 50 years now. Percy has many high profile friends in ...
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Lost Soul – Dilip Seneviratne – Piano Solo “SOME SOULS ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THIS WORLD AND SO THEY LEAVE” – by Dilip Seneviratne The tune for “Lost Soul” Initially came about in 1995, Inspired by a very special soul, gone too soon in the year 1994. For whatever reason, ...
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Top: Neil Harvey in 2018. Above: Harvey in action in 1954. PHOTO: PHOTO: STEVEN SIEWERT Forgotten hero Former Test cricketer Ashley Mallett wants Australia’s best batsman after Don Bradman to be returned to the pantheon, writes Martin Newman. It was in 1948 on his last Ashes tour of England that Donald ...
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