All non-racist, non-fighting, peaceful bloggers are welcome to peacefully discuss Dialog TV affairs here, in comments under this post.This is only temporary, as the Dialog TV Forum is in a huge mess.I will not allow any racsism and religious affairs to…
Statcounter is a free web analytics tool which I use often for my all projects. It’s a fantastic tool. You can tarce the visitors IP address, location , referring URL, and so on.
Aodhan , the founder of this site awarded BusinessWeek Young Entrepreneur of the Year!!
He started this website when he was in 16th.
Congratulation [...]
This is a purely hypothetical question, I mean, it is not as we have such a problem here, and its not as we are faced with such decisions.. But just think hypothetically shall we? There’s a good fellow.
In Sri Lanka, we are not usually faced with choosing between good and bad, instead it is generally [...]
“Aadi”- The month of Festivals. The annual Aadi Vel festival of Arulmigu Sri Sivasubramaniya Swamy temple was held on July 30 th 2007. The temple is decorated with fresh banana trees with bunches of bananas, “Thoranam” (young coconut leaves are…
The Summary of discussion at the forum held on the 21st of July 2007, at the British Council on ‘How importantly should Global Warming figure in development agendas of developing countries’ with a focus on Sri Lanka.
Introductory presentations
The event started off with an introduction to the event from Gill Westaway, the director of the British [...]
University students in Sri Lanka have accused the government of secretly working on agenda to privatise state universities.
Duminda Nagamuva, convenor of Inter University Student Union (IUSU), accused President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government of gradually reducing budget allocation for state universities.
“The allocation was reduced by 20 per cent in January. Another 50 per cent was recently reduced [...]
Applications for grade one from Aug. 15; List to be finalised by November 15
50 marks for child’s intelligence and aptitude
40 marks for parental consideration
10 marks for brother-sister category
The Supreme Court yesterday approved the much-looked forward to draft circular on the national policy for school admission and management of schools, and ordered that public schools call [...]
COLOMBO: The protest conducted by the students of Rajarata University was called off after an assurance given to the agitators by Higher Education Minister Prof. Wiswa Warnapala that the Ministry would take immediate action to address students’ grievances. The Minister agreed to solve most of the demands of the students at the meeting held at [...]
by M.S.M. Ayub
Days back the Government website had carried an interesting news item on much talked about liberation of the eastern Province. Here are some paragraphs of it.
“High ranking military officials in the East said that Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces proved their dedication and capabilities in liberating the innocent Tamils from the jaws of [...]
In all honesty the Lakqshya Test and ODI series came and went with little or no interest, if not for the Murali and Sanath heroics i would have paid little or no interest to this series. I did however watch the first day’s play between the two nations in keen ernest since Bangladesh put forth [...]
By Kapila Vidayabhushana
In July 1983, Sri Lanka was darkened by the clouds of ethnic hatred. Thousands of minority Tamils were killed and their property looted by the majority Sinhalese following an attack on the armed forces by the newly emerging Tamil Tigers. This resulted in one of the longest civil wars in modern history. [...]
The date is July 21st, 2007. Bookstores all over are preparing for the release of Rowling’s seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, the Deathly Hallows. Book stores like Borders had launch costume parties that Friday night and the literary world experienced one of the most looked forward to events in recent history.
The [...]
Traders on Jaffna Stanley Road are badly affected by the closure of the road. The road is closed for public usage for security reasons and only pedestrians are allowed to use it. Even bicyles are not allowed by forces.
Two major offices are situated on the road. One is the EPDP Jaffna office. The other is [...]
A debate on abortion from a moral-stand point is mostly futile. One can make an equally compelling case both for abortion and against it. Although abortion is illegal in Sri Lanka, It is said there are somewhere around 1000 abortions a day is performed here. That’s at least 300,000 deaths per year - A silent [...]
Consultant to the Ministry of Education,Sri Lanka,Mr.Nandasiri Wanninayake appreciated us during a chat conference.Mr. Amal Gunasena also participated to the chat and told that he has given p2p internet connection by the ministry last week.During the conference Mr.Wanninayakr told that he is about to visit TechnoVillage in August for a training session of our village [...]
A veteran ICT teacher from Kuda Kusum Girls School in Bandarawela in Sri Lanka and his students are preparing to visit Techno Village as volunteers. He motivates us all the time from the past. We are waiting to welcome you, Sir. We appreciate your dedication to us.
The coordinator to the Provincial Information Technology Education Centre of Uva province in Sri Lanka has appreciated us. During a training session at SIDA hall in Buttala, he has appreciated us, sources said. The training session was to train ICT teachers of the Uva province. Warmly Welcome…
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Ladies and gentlemen,Welcome to the world of his Highness, the Iranian President: Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad!!![pic source: Abed Hamdan's Blog]
My first vectorizing …. I left the original art work (not done by me) without changing a thin… and ended up with this poster…Image Gallery
I am Ajith Balasooriya. My present age is 28 years and unmarried yet. My village is Mahavilachchiyia. My village is 48 km away from Anuradhapura town. I am a farmer. In addition to that, I work in Horizon Lanka Foundation as a volunteer. I teach my friends and adults computer technology. In Horizon Lanka [...]
I am in a great anxious to study the new technology of computer. My special ambition is to build a my own house.
These days there is a normal weather in Mahavilachchiya. The paddy fields are ripening now.
Visiting Horizon Lanka Foundation The Asst. Secretary to His Excellency the president, Mr. Waruna Sri Dhanapala visited Horizon Lanka Foundation, Mahavilachchiya with some of his officers on 30th of July 2007. He made a discussion with some parents of the students were here and he also visited the Mess Houses to see the transactions of [...]
1 image2 imageThe first image shows a picture of a NASA survey on MARS soil to check weather there are any water or other important material by sacrificing lot of resources.The second image shows an African baby searching EARTH soil to find out some w…
Lady Divine mentioned in one of her comments that I must be someone who likes to read a lot, and I thank her for reminding me of a topic to write a post about. Reading is my #1 hobby so I thought it should deserve a mentioning.I’m not sure when I got…
Despite our best efforts, information available to citizens at times of crises – man-made or natural - is often inadequate, biased, incorrect and late. Studies show that the problem lies not with technology (or lack thereof), but with the culture of information sharing. Technology, while it can help address problems of access, dissemination and archival, [...]
Process industry is an essential area in economy of any country. A country must convert raw materials into valuable & consumable products rather than importing each & every thing in order to be a strong nation. Developed countries have very large s…
අපට දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතියක් තිබේදැයි අසනු කැමැත්තෙමි. එසේ අසන්නේ ඇයි යනුවෙන් කෙනෙක් පෙරළා අසන්නට පුළුවන. ප්රශ්නය නගන්නේ දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතියක් නැති නිසා…
නැවත වතාවක් මෙරට විශ්ව විද්යාල කීපයකම අරගල මේ දිනවල ආරම්භ වී ඇත. දීර්ඝ කාලයක පටන් මෙරට විශ්ව විද්යාල ශිෂ්යයින් හා…
ඡායාරූපය බීබීසී වෙතින්නූතන සිනමාවේ අග්රගණ්ය අධ්යක්ෂකවරයකු වූ ඉන්මාර් බර්ග්මාන් ජූලි 30 වැ…
MSFT Financial Analyst Meeting: Bill Gates
The advance in the mobile devices is very exciting for us, because those have gone from being voice-only devices where software couldn’t add much value, to now far-richer devices. If you look at what we’re doing with Windows Mobile, what Apple is doing with the phone, it’s about [...]
Sri Lanka Army’s military intelligence corps (MI) have learnt that a large number of LTTE intelligence wing members have infiltrated SLA controlled territory in Mannar. LTTE cadres disguised as civilians have been able to enter SLA …
Paper titled “Community-based Hazard Warnings in Rural Sri Lanka: Performance of a Last-Mile Message Relay”, authors – Gordon Gow (Associate Professor, Faculty of Extensions, University of Alberta, Canada), Peter Anderson (Associate Professor, Department of Telematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada), and Nuwan Waidyanatha (Project Manager, Last-Mile Hazard Warning Systems, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka), will be presented at [...]
This year and perhaps hereafter children will be allocated schools largely according to their intelligence/aptitude levels. 25% of the marks are given for intelligence (= capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. – from dictionary.com) AND 25% for aptitude. (= capability; ability; [...]
Business Editor: “The value of an article is not measured on word count but by whether it’s an assignment or rewritten press release or active story or investigation. Business reporters are paid over and above what news/ features freelancers are.”The…
This is the editorial column of the “Sunday Lakbima” (Sinhala) on 29th July. If I’m not mistaken, Sundara Nihathamani De Mel (Who also write’s the popular column “Mani ge theeruwa”) is the editor of Sinhala Lakbima, and he’s completely a different (May be opposite) caliber of an editor, compared to the popular (among Sri Lankan bloggers) “editor of Lakbima English”. Mani is among very few
I’m being besieged by ants, constantly during the past couple of days. For some odd reason, ants in my home seem to find my notebook computer attractive. Whenever I turn it on and use it, ants (biting red ones, not the harmless black ones) come in a l…
Privatization is a controversial subject. Proponents claim it will increase efficiency; reduce the stuffing of firms with excess employees, etc. The reduction of political victimization is not a benefit that usually gets addressed.
This study also helps explain the opposition of unions in state-owned firms to privatization. They are not [...]
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