It was founded byS.W.R.D Bandaranaike in 1951 and, since then, has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri Lankan political arena. It first came to power in 1956 and since then has been the predominant party in government on a number of occasions. Sri Lanka had the world’s first woman prime minister under a SLFP regime.
he Sri Lanka Freedom Party is currently a part of the UPFA (United People’s Freedom Alliance) which is the current ruling party of Sri Lanka.
Prime minister D.M. Jayaratne and other senior members of the SLFP are attending today’s celebration. A felicitation of artistes to coincide with the anniversary will take place at the BMICH on September 04.
Update – No complaints have been made regarding the hacking of the DNS servers of many international company websites by the Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous while no serious effects have yet to be felt following the breach, the Computer Emergency and Readiness Team (CERT) stated.
The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days.
Posting the news and records of its exploits on Pastebin, the group is taking credit for launching “DNS Cache Snoop Poisoning” attacks against its victims.
DNS cache snooping is the process whereby hackers can query a DNS server to find out which domain names are being resolved into IP addresses.
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 Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is marking its 60th anniversary at a function at Temple Trees today (Sept. 02), to be chaired by president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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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.’
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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.
