Sri Lanka Tourism expects to increase tourist arrivals by 2.5 million in 2016. In 2011, tourist arrivals increased by 30 percent. During the past six months that number increased by eight percent, Sri Lanka Tourism lecturer Upali Rathnayake said. This was revealed at the media workshop on tourism at the Colombo University Economic Department on [...]
Sri Lanka Janahanda Foundation took another positive step towards the children who performed at their Sri Lankan New Year Festival event on the 9th June 2012. The Festival was held at Lampton School, Hounslow, London, on the Sinhala and Hindu New year day – 14th of April 2012. This felicitation was graced by the Mayor [...]
Pakistan and Sri Lanka plead for DRS Rivals Pakistan and Sri Lanka united Tuesday to demand mandatory video technology after several umpiring howlers in their first Test, placing themselves in opposition to India’s powerful board. The Decision Review System (DRS), which uses ball tracking and thermal imaging to verify umpires’ decisions, was recommended for mandatory [...]
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Sri Lanka Janahanda Foundation held its eighth year Annual General Meeting with the full participation of its executive members, and well wishers, at the Indian Cultural Centre, on Sunday 17thFebruary 2013.Main purpose was to discuss the forth coming Sinhala and Hindu new year festival which is scheduled to be held on 06/04/2013 in Lampton School [...]
Distribution of Spectacles and a Wheelchair Srilal dias, President of Srilankan Janahanda foundation ,based in Hounslow, London ,with the association of Sri Lanka police, head quarters of Mount Lavinia, distributed a wheel chair and 150 spectacles to police officers attached to the head quarters on the 20th of October,2012 and this was done in the [...]
ICC Awards 2012 – Kumar Sangakkara Wins Top 3 Awards Kumar Sangakkara has won three awards, including the prestigious Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year at the annual ICC awards ceremony in Colombo. Sangakkara also won the People’s Choice prize, an honour he had received last year as well. For Cricketer [...]
Organized by London Hounslow Janahanda Foundation ජනහඬ අවුරුදු උළෙල ජයටම ලන්ඩන් නුවර හවුන්ස්ලෝ ශ්රීලංකා ජනහඬ පදනම ශ්රී ලාංකික ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් අවුරුදු 8 ක කාලයක් තිස්සේ නොකඩවා ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද සිංහල සහ දෙමල අලුත් අවුරුදු උත්සවය, ලන්ඩන් බක් මහ උළෙල, මෙවරත් ඉතා උත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් පසුගියදා පවත්වන ලදී. ලන්ඩන් බෞද්ධ විහාර විහාරාධිපති මහා බ්රිතාන්යයේ ප්රධාන සංඝ නායක [...]
US congressman talks about the double standards by the US government towards Sri Lanka Tweet
Hours before the National Museum in Colombo was robbed, nearly four months back, several luxury vehicles were seen in the area, according to a statement made by a security officer of the Art Gallery situated nearby. Stanley Liyanage, 40, was on duty at the Art Gallery on March 16 – the night the museum was [...]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has stressed the importance of setting up the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee in motion to find a workable solution to the national issue without delay, Senior Minister of Scientific Affairs Prof. Tissa Vitharana yesterday told the Daily News. Prof Vitharana said: “The President had asked all political parties to commit to their [...]
The CID today submitted a report to the Colombo Magistrates court stating that they have concluded investigations in to the murder of former MP Baratha Lakshman and three others when the case was taken up today. The CID told the court that the government analysts department had also submitted its report. The CID further went [...]
Shirani Sabaratnam, who works at the London-based Channel-4 TV Station as an editor and a presenter, arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday. On arrival she was detained at the airport by Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities and later deported to Britain, informed sources said. The sources alleged that Ms. Sabaratnam, a former LTTE member, had [...]
Arnold bowed out of the world of professional bodybuilding in 1975 very much on a high. During his decade of dominance (including 6 Mr. Olympia titles) he had re-invented the sport and inspired a new generation of elite athletes to compete in his wake. After his famous 6th title, where he was victorious over “the [...]
There is a healthy appetite for the privatisation of cricket in Sri Lanka, going by the number of potentially interested investors in the Sri Lanka Premier League. Despite uncertainty about the participation of Indian players in the event, an SLC official told ESPNcricinfo that they have issued 13 bid applications for the seven franchises so [...]
MS Dhini, the India captain, has proved to be just as successful off the field as he has been on the field. Forbes magazine has ranked him as the highest-paid cricketer, as well as the highest-paid athlete in India for the period from June 2011 to June 2012. Dhoni tops not only team-mate Sachin Tendulkar, [...]
Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass. Both of the Higgs boson-hunting experiments at the LHC see a level of certainty in their [...]
It was about three years ago, when roughly 100,000 civilians died during Sri Lanka’s civil war. Most of them, were from the ethnic group Tamil. On Friday, Benedict XVI met with Sri Lanka’s president at the Vatican. During the meeting, he asked the president to ‘quickly’ reach an agreement to promote reconciliation. This is the [...]
The ICC World Twenty20 2012 will be held in Sri Lanka and it will be the fourth time the tournament has been played. 12 teams, the 10 Full Members and two qualifiers from the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2012 that will be staged in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 13-24 march 2012, will take [...]
Bollywood Superstars Preity Zinta and Vivek Oberoi arrived Sri Lanka, a short while ago to attend the Carlton Super 7′s tournament today ( May 27) at the Bogambara Grounds in Kandy, Sri Lanka Tweet
Official Video for Dr Zeus’ Remix of 12 Saal (Barrah Saal) by Envy Entertainments latest signing Bilal Saeed featuring raps by Shortie and Hannah Kumari. Tweet
As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill Presenter – Robert Preston Tweet
Increasing numbers of tourists including well-intentioned volunteers keen to help war-torn Cambodia are volunteering in the country’s orphanages. Volumes of research around the world have shown that orphanage care is associated with long-term psychological concerns. People & Power investigates the concept of “voluntourism” which is inadvertently doing more harm than good to Cambodian children, as [...]
London Hounslow 2013 Sinhala And Tamil New Year Celebrations 2013
Organized by London Hounslow Janahanda Foundation ජනහඬ අවුරුදු උළෙල ජයටම ලන්ඩන් නුවර හවුන්ස්ලෝ ශ්රීලංකා ජනහඬ පදනම ශ්රී ලාංකික ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් අවුරුදු 8 ක කාලයක් තිස්සේ නොකඩවා ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද සිංහල සහ දෙමල අලුත් අවුරුදු උත්සවය, ලන්ඩන් බක් මහ උළෙල, මෙවරත් ඉතා උත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් පසුගියදා පවත්වන ලදී. ලන්ඩන් බෞද්ධ විහාර විහාරාධිපති මහා බ්රිතාන්යයේ ප්රධාන සංඝ නායක [...]
London Sinhala And Tamil New Year Festival 2013
London Hounslow , Janahanda Sinhala And Tamil New Year 2013 Join us for the 2013 Hounslow Janahanda Sinhala & Tamil New Year Festival which will take place on the 9th Of April 2013. Tweet
Bodu Bala Sena on TNL – Full Video
Bodu Bala Sena Discussion on TNL Television – Halal Discussion Tweet
