Sri Lanka Cricket named a 15 men squad for the 1st test match against Pakistan at the Galle cricket statum which will be starting on July 4th, Saturday. The Sri Lankan fast balling ledgond Chaminda Vass has been dropped from the squad and all rounder Angelo Mathews who had a successful T20 World Cup has been included in the squad. The wicket keeper Kaushal Silva has taken the place injurged wicket keeper Prassana Jayawardene. Thilan Samaraweera who was injured badly in Lahor terrorist attack on Sri Lankan Cricket team has be named too.
Sri Lanka squad for the 1st Test: Kumar Sangakkara (capt/wkt), Malinda Warnapura, Tharanga Paranavitana, Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Angelo Mathews, Chamara Kapugedera, Muthiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Thushara, Nuwan Kulasekera, Dhammika Prasad, Kaushal Silva (wkt), Suranga Lakmal
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
TV2 - Be Heard the new Television Channel in Sri Lanka
A new television (TV) channel has been launched in Sri Lanka by People’s Media Network (Pvt.) Ltd. (They also has an English radio channel "Radio 1"). The TV channel is named "TV2" with the tag line "Be Heard!". At the music channel is dedicated to music. Both foreign and local music will be featured.
You can watch TV2 by tuning to UHF 53. TV2 official web site can be found on www.tv2.lk. Program guide and list of show can be here.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Watch Sri Lanka Victory Day Ceromony & Parade Online
You can watch the Sri Lankan Victory Day Ceromony and parade online here.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Minimum 15% Salary Increment to All Private Sector Employees
The Finance minister of Sri Lanka has approved a Bill which comes into effect on 01.04.2009 and it states that all Privately Held companies need to give a minimum salary increment of 15% to all employees every six months.
This comes as a relief to petitioners appealing against the growing work hours in the Privately Held organizations and which do not have a proper system to check overtime.
The bill also mentions that all employees be provided 20 days of casual leave every year.
Following document contains list of companies list of companies which will be brought under the umbrella of the Bill in the first round of implementation.
URL: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbsc86n_0d8hfv8dz
This comes as a relief to petitioners appealing against the growing work hours in the Privately Held organizations and which do not have a proper system to check overtime.
The bill also mentions that all employees be provided 20 days of casual leave every year.
Following document contains list of companies list of companies which will be brought under the umbrella of the Bill in the first round of implementation.
URL: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbsc86n_0d8hfv8dz
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Somethings to concider before applying for foreign degree
I saw following Public Notice from the University Grants Commission on Sunday Observer (01/03/2009 Page: 49),
Good online resources are,
The Public is hereby informed that the University Grants Commission recognizes foreign Universities / Higher Educational Institutes that are listed in the following International Publications which are authentic sources of information on Universities and Higher Educational Institutes in different countries, are recognized at present:With lot of scammers like Sakwithi Ransinghe, Seagul etc. You better check the foreign degree awarding institute before paying thousands of ruppies to them.It is repsonsibility of the general public to verify from the above sources or the University Grants Commission the recognition of Universities / Higher Educational Institutes before registration for a degree awarded by a foreign University / Higher Education.
- Commonwealth Universities Yearbook (Published by Association of Commonwealth Universities)
- International Handbook of Universities (Published by International Association of Universities)
Good online resources are,
- http://www.unesco.org/iau/onlinedatabases/list.html
- http://www.webometrics.info/
- By using http://www.webometrics.info/university_by_country.asp?country=[COUNTRY DOMAIN], you can list of unversities of a certain country. For ex. http://www.webometrics.info/university_by_country.asp?country=lk for Sri Lankan universities.
- By using http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=[COUNTRY DOMAIN], you can get list of universities of certain country which belongs to Top 5000 universities in the world. For ex. http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=lk for Sri Lankan universities belongs to top 5000.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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