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General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thero told Ada Derana that not only their fan pages on facebook, but some other pages handled by individuals who raised their voice against racism and social injustice too have been. MORE...
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Western Province Chief Minister Prasanna Ranatunga today lodged a complaint with the Cinnamon Garden police against a person who said to have made a false complaint to the Welikada police against him. MORE...
Algerias national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara. MORE...
The Supreme Court today dismissed the petition filed by United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian Harin Fernando against the Election Commissioner, on the seat allocation in Uva Province. MORE...
The Kandy High Court sentenced four persons to death found guilty of murdering a person in Palagolla area in Pussellawa, a short while ago. MORE...
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat against South Africa in the second test match at the SSC ground a short while ago.
Four members of Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth Games team sparked a police response after going for a bicycle ride down one of Scotland’s busiest stretches of motorway. MORE...
NDA ally PMK today slammed the Indian Central Government for its reported refusal to grant visa to a UN team probing alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, saying if it was true, it will become “dark pages” in the history of human rights. MORE...
Well known nature reserve in Sri Lanka, Yala National Park, will be closed for the tourists until mid-October, Director of the Department of Wildlife H.G. Ratnayake told Ada Derana. MORE...
Some 1,000 university students today staged a protest in Fort demanding the authorities to revoke the decision of the university administrations to suspend the studentship of 28 undergraduates. MORE...
Heavy traffic reported along Ward Place, Colombo as University students are blocking the road in front of the University Grants Commission(UGC).
The police Special Task Force (STF) have seized five kilograms of Kerala ganja and nabbed one individual in Patuwapitiya area in Negombo. MORE...
A project has been launched by the Ministry of Public Management Reforms in a bid to investigate public matters and provide appropriate solutions for them. MORE...
The Department of Examinations has come forward to ban last minute revision classes, seminars, and lectures five days before major State examinations, including the grade five scholarship test to be held 11 August. MORE...
India gave Australia a bit of a breather by agreeing to investigate whether some of the 157 boat refugees confined to their boat on Christmas Island are Sri Lankan Tamil refugees from a camp in Puducherry. MORE...
The Principle and female teacher of Kadawala Tamil Maha Vidyalaya, in the Hatton Educational Zone, have been arrested and remanded for allegedly abetting the molesting of a 16-yer-old school girl. MORE..
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Lahiru Thirimanne names as captain of the 15 member cricket squad representing Sri Lanka at the Asian Games 2014 in South Korea - SLC -
Indian speedster Ishant Sharma, whose consistency has always been under the scanner, delivered when it mattered most, as he grabbed a career-best 7 for 74 to bowl out the home team for a 223 in pursuit of a competitive victory target of 319. MORE..
Fast bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel took four wickets each as South Africa dispatched Sri Lanka for 216 to win the first test in Galle by 153 runs on Sunday. MORE..
South Africa declared their second innings on 206 for six wickets at tea on the fourth day on Saturday, setting Sri Lanka a target of 370 to win the first test. MORE..
Pace bowler Dale Steyn grabbed 5 for 54 to help restrict Sri Lanka to 292 in reply to South Africa’s first-innings score of 455 for 9 declared on day four of the first Test. South Africa lead by 163 runs. MORE..
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is to direct a documentary about the early years of the Beatles. MORE..
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A resident of Taiwan who is of Sri Lankan origin, Niroshan Devapriya has alleged that he was in a romantic relationship with the Bachchan bahu before her marriage. Not only this, Devapriya has also demanded claims for causing him mental stress. MORE..
Director Peter Jackson has changed the title of the final film in his Hobbit trilogy from There and Back Again to The Battle of the Five Armies. MORE..
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The US Department of Justice has broken new ground when it comes to prosecuting counterfeit mobile app distributors. For the first time, the government has convicted two men for illegally selling copies of copyrighted apps. MORE..
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S5 smartphone - an improved, but not radically different, successor to last year’s Galaxy S4. MORE..
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