LNP - Standard Chartered Sri Lanka appoints Aroshana Fernando to Country Management Team

2021-04-16   |   Sports

Standard Chartered Sri Lanka has recently appointed Aroshana Fernando as the Head of Consumer, Private & Business Banking (CPBB). He joins the Ban...

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LNP - Sri Lanka Cricket appoints new Selection Committee

2021-04-09   |   Sports

Sri Lanka Cricket appointed a new Selection Committee on Thursday (08). Sri Lanka Cricket said the 06-member panel was ratified by Sports Minister Nam...

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LNP - Cargills initiates the first ever Plastic Modified Asphalt Concrete Car Park in Sri Lanka

2021-04-09   |   Sports

As a socially responsible corporate citizen, Cargills holds a strong commitment to serving the nation and preserving the planet for future generations...

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LNP - SL legends to play charity match with current SL cricketers on May 4

2021-04-08   |   Sports

Prof. Arjuna de Silva, the President of newly-appointed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Management Committee yesterday confirmed that a charity T20 match betw...

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LNP - Softlogic team up with Huawei as a Strategic Partner to introduce latest Enterprise Solutions to Sri Lanka

2021-04-07   |   Sports

World’s leading ICT solutions provider Huawei and Sri Lanka’s Softlogic Information Technologies Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Softlogic Holdings PLC, ...

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LNP - Management Committee appointed to run SLC

2021-04-06   |   Sports

Minister of Sports Namal Rajapaksa has appointed a management committee to handle the administrative affairs of Sri Lanka Cricket. Minister of Sports ...

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LNP - GL: Will UK hand over suppressed wartime dispatches to USD 2.8 mn Geneva probe team?

2021-03-30   |   Sports

SLPP Chairman Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday (29) asked whether the UK would hand over wartime dispatches (January-May, 2009) from its High Commission i...

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LNP - Sri Lanka fined for slow over-rate in third ODI against West Indies

2021-03-17   |   Sports

Karunaratne pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing (ICC) Sri Lanka have been fine...

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LNP - Action from 68th Badminton Nationals

2021-02-23   |   Sports

The Badminton National Championship 2020 concluded with Olympian Niluka Karunaratne successfully defending the men’s singles title and Hasini Amba...

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LNP - Govt.-backed racketeers run riot: 3,000 acres grabbed in Somawathiya National Park within two days

2021-02-19   |   Sports

Another 1,000 acres of the Somawathiya National Park were been grabbed yesterday by an organised group who removed boundary posts put up by Departme...

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LNP - Eight Sri Lankans at 2021 World Para Athletics Grand Prix

2021-02-11   |   Sports

op Row: H.C. Sampath Hettiarachchi – Captain, H.M. Dinesh Priyantha, H.G. Palitha Bandara, K.A. Samitha Dulan, K.G. Gamini Ekanayaka, Bottom Row: ...

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LNP - High profile cricket committee named

2021-02-06   |   Sports

The Sports Ministry yesterday brought Sri Lanka Cricket down a notch by appointing a high profile Cricket Committee. While Cricket Committees in the...

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LNP - People’s Merchant Finance Kurunegala Branch relocated

2021-01-25   |   Sports

People’s Merchant Finance PLC relocated its Kurunegala branch to a more conveniently accessible location No. 2 South circular Road, Kadurugas Juncti...

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LNP - Eight Sri Lanka cricketers fail fitness tests

2021-01-20   |   Sports

Sri Lanka Cricket has issued an ultimatum to its contracted players after eight of them failed a fitness test in Colombo. A pool of 20 shortlisted p...

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LNP - Shanika breaks lockdown shackles to erase 35 year old athletics record

2020-12-30   |   Sports

Emerging school athlete Shanika Lakshani competing alongside seniors shattered one of the oldest athletics records when she clocked 4:33.40 seconds t...

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LNP - School athletes’ prospects at National Athletics Championship

2020-12-25   |   Sports

When the track and field sport resumes action this weekend after more than a year on the sidelines due to the Covid 19 pandemic, not only the top nati...

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LNP - Top athletes to vie for Olympic qualifying standards

2020-12-23   |   Sports

More than half a dozen top national athletes will have tough Olympic qualifying marks or achieving better world rankings as their prime targets when t...

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LNP - Puttalam Zahira FC wins Soccer Tournament

2020-12-22   |   Sports

Puttalam Zahira FC Qatar has become the champions of Ozee Soccer Seven Tournament beating Mawanella Zahira FC. The 2020 Edition of the Ozee Soccer Sev...

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LNP - SJB rakes up dubious track record of Indian conglomerate selected by govt. to run ECT

2020-12-22   |   Sports

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) yesterday said that the proposed handing over of the Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal to India’s Adani Grou...

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LNP - Sports Sri Lanka Badminton brings on Li Ning – Lanka Shuttle Challenge 2020

2020-12-15   |   Sports

All year long, most of the national athletes have been training without a goal in sight. As in most sports, Badminton too had its fair share of miss...

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LNP - Herschelle Gibbs suspended by Colombo Kings, Rangana Herath appointed new coach

2020-12-11   |   Sports

Herschelle Gibbs has been suspended as a coach by Colombo Kings, it is reliably learnt here.  The 46-year-old South African opener came to Sri La...

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LNP - Await ten team IPL in 2021

2020-12-07   |   Sports

The BCCI has signalled the likely addition of two new teams to the IPL for the 2021 edition. That, along with the “discussion” on including cric...

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LNP - Pandemic forces Sri Lanka Athletics to take unprecedented steps

2020-12-04   |   Sports

The current pandemic situation has forced Sri Lanka Athletics to take an unprecedented step in including two track athletes, who are currently serving...

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LNP - Diego Maradona – Argentina’s flawed football icon

2020-11-27   |   Sports

Dazzling, infamous, extraordinary, genius, outrageous. Diego Maradona. A flawed football icon. One of the game’s most gifted players, the Argentine ...

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LNP - 2002 world medals that Sugath and Rohan never received

2020-11-20   |   Sports

It was a time when Sri Lanka had in possession some of Asia’s best sprinters. Sri Lanka was so strong in the men’s 400 metres from mid 90s to earl...

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