Previously, athletes had been allowed one false start before being disqualified for a second, but new rules introduced by governing body the IAAF for the start of the 2010 season disqualifies a runner even at the first false start. Following Bolt’s exit, countryman Yohan Blake took event’s gold.
Lasith Malinga became the first player to take three hatricks in International ODIs. Previously Lasith had taken two hattricks and both of them were during the world cup matches.
A police constable was killed and five civilians injured during a tense situation in Puttalam town last night (Aug. 21). An unknown person had fired shots when the PC and the Grama Seva officer had gone to Mahalgunduwaarea to inquire into reports about a ‘grease devil.’
The injured, including a woman and a 13-year-old boy, have been admitted to Puttalam Base Hospital. Mobs also set fire to the motorcycle of the policeman.
The Army and the STF have taken control of the Puttlam Police station from last night. The Army has also taken control of the whole town after violent clashes erupted last night which resulted in the death of a 23 year old Police constable. All police officers in the area have been called in to the police station and are given heavy protection by the Army and the STF. No policemen have been stationed on duty around the area.
According to police, normalcy has now returned to Puttalam town.
A joint statement said the boards of both companies had unanimously approved the deal, which should be completed by the end of this year, or early in 2012.
Earlier this year, Motorola split into two separate companies.
Mobility develops and manufactures mobile phones, while Motorola Solutions covers wider technologies for corporate customers and governments.
The deal would allow Google to “supercharge” its Android operating system, the joint statement added.
Google said it would continue to run Mobility as a separate business.
Students sitting for the GCE Advanced Level examinations would be able to use private buses free of charge by showing their admission card from August 8 – September 3, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said today.
However, The Private bus owners today said they will not be providing private bus transportation free of charge to A/L students sitting for their examinations although the Education Ministry had made a formal announcement to that effect.
The Private Bus Owners Association (PBOA) said yesterday that such a decision was not discussed with private bus owners and without making prior arrangements with the private bus operators.
“The ministry should not make such vague statements without discussing it with us beforehand. By doing this they will only distress and inconvenience the students and could potentially damage their education by doing this,” PBOA President, Gemunu Wijeyratne said.
He said last year a similar announcement was made to provide free transportation within the Western Province for students. He said it was an inconvenience to the students at the time.
A proposal has been put forward to have a nudist beach in Kalutara and it was taken up for discussion as early as last month.
The nudist beach was proposed to be opened at Calido beach in Kalutara, an area which was declared last year as a tourist zone.
Calido beach is within a 1 x 1 ½ km strip area and the management of a leading casino operating in Colombo was tasked with operating the tourist zone.
Stardust casino had proposed a nudist beach in Kalutara as part of moves to promote tourism in the area and had sought approval from the relevant authorities.
In an extraordinary address at the MCC Spirit of Cricket Lecture at Lord’s, Kumar Sangakkara has launched a scathing attack on the “partisan cronies” at Sri Lanka Cricket who blight the sport in his country, and who led him to resign the captaincy after only two years in charge, in the wake of the World Cup final in April.
In an hour-long speech that earned him a standing ovation, Sangakkara charted the unique history of cricket in his country, and called on Sri Lanka Cricket to root out its corrupt practices, and recognise the huge role that the sport now needs to play in promoting reconciliation at the end of a 30-year civil war.
Sangakkara pinpointed the country’s most powerful moment of national unity – the World Cup final victory over Australia in 1996 – as the moment that the sport’s administration changed “from a volunteer-led organisation run by well-meaning men of integrity into a multimillion-dollar organisation that has been in turmoil ever since.”
With cricket administration on the verge of a collapse and the lure of the IPL money taking precedence over country, three senior players are planning to opt out from their national contracts, newspaper reliably learns.
Handled by the same agent, the three key players, a bowler who retired from Test recently, and two top order batsmen will not renew their contracts on return to the island after the conclusion of the English tour.
This will give them an option to pick and choose matches as they wish, giving more headache to the selectors.
The darkest and one of the longest lunar eclipse in the century will be visible in Sri Lankan skies on Wednesday June 15, Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Colombo and Consultant -Astronomy and Space Applications, Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies Dr. Chandana Jayaratne told.
Dr. Jayaratne said the Sri Lankans will get the opportunity of viewing a total lunar eclipse on that day.
The eclipse begins at 10.55 p.m. on 15th night with the moon entering into the penumbra of the earth’s shadow and will end up at 4.31 a.m. The visible part of the eclipse for the observers begins around 11.53 p.m. on 15th night with the moon entering into the Umbra – the dark part of the earth’s shadow and it will appear till the moon leaves the Umbra at 3.32 a.m.
Meanwhile the Sri Lanka Astronomical Association said the eclipse is expected last around 100 minutes. The proper eclipse is expected to begin at around 11.52 pm on June 15 and would end at 3.32 pm.
It will be visible over Europe and South America shortly after sunset and over Africa and the over Asia and Australia before Sunrise.
Olympic medalist Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has been disqualified from the final of the men’s 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu after a false start.
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