COLOMBO, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) Sri Lanka cabinet of ministers has approved a proposal by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to transform the historic city of Kandy in
OLD PERADENIYA By Ernest Macintyre INTRODUCTION The Mahaweli River, 335 long, the longest river in Lanka, has its beginning in a remote village of Nuwara-Eliya District in the central hills, and ends going into the sea at the Bay of Bengal on the east coast at Trincomalee. As it passes Kandy, the main town of […]
Under 19 Cricket by Reemus Fernando St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota registered historic innings and 79 runs victory over Ananda College Colombo as spinner Kaveesha Piyumal completed a match-bag of ten wickets in the Under 19 traditional cricket encounter which concluded before tea at Ananda Mawatha on Tuesday. St. Anthony’s officials told The Island that the […]
By Uditha Devapriya I first encountered T. M. Jayaratne through the films of K. A. W. Perera. Most of them were scored by Premasiri Khemadasa, who, in more than one sense, introduced Jayaratne to popular audiences. Together with Sanath Nandasiri, Sunil Edirisinghe, Mervin Perera, and of course Victor Ratnayake, Jayaratne belongs to a third generation, […]
Under 19 Limited Overs Cricket by Reemus Fernando The Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ cricket tournament quarter-final between St. Anthony’s, Katugastota and Mahanama, Colombo turned out to be a battle between the batting openers as an unbeaten knock of 80 runs by Mohamed Aaqil helped the team from Kandy reach the semi-finals at Pannipitiya […]