Mansion of the Black Prince- BY MAHIL WIJESINGHE The front view of the Walauwa Source:Sundayobserver My original destination was the Walalgoda Tempita Vihara in Walalgoda, a remote village close to Embilipitiya, where wall paintings belonging to the Kandyan period, preserved in a two-storied small building in a Tempita Vihara. Having visited the temple, with a glimmer of hope, I made up my mind to visit another archaeologically important site situated 28 kilometres from Walalgoda. It was the grand mansion of the Maduwanwela Walauwa. My memory goes back to late 70s when I was a schoolboy, when I read a serialised story of Maduwanwela Maha Disawa in our sister newspaper Silumina each week for a couple of months. Since the printing was not so good those days, the story accompanied several black and white pictures which were fascinating for the readers. Almost five decades later, recalling the past memories, we visited ...
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Learning @ Home-BY RUWANTHI ABEYAKOON Source:Sundayobserver Education emergency is the most devastating matter Covid-19 pandemic brought about. UNICEF surveys confirm that over 190 countries closed schools in response to the health emergency. Reports suggest more than one billion children are at risk of falling behind due to school closures aimed at containing the spread of the virus. As a result, many countries turned to implementing distance learning programs on a wide-scale. Even though online education was not accepted by both teachers and parents with open minds at the beginning, online education was the best alternative that they could turn to. Despite challenges and setbacks, learning can continue through online platforms during the times of crisis. Fortunately, technology today offers a wide variety of methods to support distance education. Yet it should be decided what are the best combinations of interventions that are needed to transfer from paper-based approaches to online ...
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Loner Sajeewa to fight for pride at world boxing in Serbia-BY ALLAAM OUSMAN Sajeewa Nuwan. Bursting with confidence Source:Sundayobserver Sri Lanka’s lone representative at the World Boxing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, Army pugilist Sajeewa Nuwan Kumara is determined to fight for a medal. The 29-year-old lance corporal in the Armoured Corps is armed with a new-found self-belief after his bronze medal winning performance at the World Military Boxing Championship in Russia last month. Having emerged as Sri Lanka’s best light fly weight (49kg) boxer since 2018, Sajeewa Nuwan is buoyed by his maiden success at international level after tweaking his technique. He defeated a tough southpaw from Mozambique in the quarter-finals before losing narrowly on points to a fighter from Brazil in the semi-finals. ...
Theekshana,Hasaranga,spin and pace of Lahiru give Sri Lanka a seven-wicket comprehensive win – By Sunil Thenabadu Maheesh Theekshana struck with his first ball of the tournament Photo courtesy: CRICINFO Brief scores…. Sri Lanka 100 for 3 (Rajapaksa 42*, Fernando 30*) beat Namibia 96 (Craig Williams 29, Theekshana 3-25, Kumara 2-9) by seven wickets Sri Lanka commenced the first phase of the ICC T 20 , 2021 tournament with a comprehensive seven wickets win with a healthy run rate having notched up 100 for loss of only three wickets in 13.3 overs in reply to Associate Member Namibia’s paltry total of 96 runs made in 19.3 overs.Of course it has to be said that side Namibia are not just push overs as they have had a wonderful past record in T 20’s ,the side includes some talented experienced lot Dasun Shanaka having won the flip had no hesitation in inviting Namibia to bat.The opening pair ...
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Day 2 ICC WC T 20 ,2021 – Curtis Campher bags four in four as Ireland demolish Netherlands by seven wickets with 27 balls remaining – by Sunil Thenabadu Curtis Campher became the third man to take four wickets in four balls in men’s T20Is Photo source :CRICINFO Brief scores Ireland 107 for 3 ( Gareth Delany 44, Paul Stirling 30*, Klaassen 1-18) beat Netherlands 106 ( Max O’Dowd 51, Curtis Campher 4-26,Mmark Adair 3-9) by seven wickets Scotland skipper winning the flip opted to field in the Group A first phase match played in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Netherlands were gradually building up a respectable total .But disaster struck when Curtis Campher playing only in his fifth T 20 in his second over and tenth over in the innings bowling right arm medium swing captured four wickets in four balls was instrumental in the drubbing of the Netherlands .This was a record hattrick first in ...
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“A WORLD WITHOUT HAGGARD” – By Des Kelly He was born in America on the 6th day of April, 1937, spent most of his young years breaking out of disciplinary institutions, and later, jails, for insisting that “breaking the law” was something he wanted to do, and did, until he met, for the first time, the man in black, Johnny Cash, in the process of doing a concert especially for jail inmates. Johnny advised this headstrong young man to quit crime and do something worthwhile, rather than spend his entire life behind bars. Merle Haggard decided to take this good advice and ended up as one of the greatest Country-Music Stars that America has ever seen. He died on his 79th birthday, 6th April, 2016. Vince Gill, another famous Star in the American Country Sky, is a superb Session Guitarist, Vocalist, and even more importantly, a Songwriter, penned this tribute ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Sri Lanka cruise to WC win over Namibia Source:-perthnow.com.au Former champions Sri Lanka have endured an early mini-collapse before cruising to a seven wicket win over Namibia in their opening Twenty20 World Cup clash at Abu Dhabi. After Namibia were bowled out for 96, Sri Lanka reached 3-100 in 13.3 overs in their Group A game but didn’t have it all their own way. Sri Lanka stumbled in their run chase, reduced to 3-26 in the sixth over after Namibia’s JJ Smit (1-7), Bernard Scholtz (1-16) and Ruben Trumpelmann (1-27) struck. However, Bhanuka Rajapaksa made Namibia pay for giving him a life on 18 when he was dropped at fine leg. He thrashed four fours and two sixes to be 42 not out off 27 balls, combining with Avishka Fernando to steer the 2014 champs to a commanding win. Fernando hit two sixes to be 30 not out, sharing an ...
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ICC Cricket World Cup T20 Match Highlights: Sri Lanka v Namibia – 18 October 2021 ...
