Vehicle Tax Reduction in Sri Lanka 2015

New Vehicle tax in Sri Lanka 

The Interim Budget 2015 presented before the parliament by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake.
Vehicle taxes reduction 15% for vehciles with engines below 1000 CC

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Interim Budget Proposals 2015 Sri Lanka

Government of Sri Lanka - Interim Budget 2015 

The Interim Budget 2015 presented before the parliament by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake.

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Sri Lanka International cricket schedule 2015 - 2016

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

The 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the 11th ICC Cricket World Cup, scheduled to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015.

49 matches will be played in 14 venues with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney while New Zealand hosts 23 games in seven cities, including Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier, Nelson and Wellington.

The final match of the tournament will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It will be one of the world’s largest international sports tournaments, with 14 competing teams and more than 400 accredited players and officials taking part in it.

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Sri Lanka Cricket

Jan-2015
Thu 29  01:00 GMT, 14:00 local	Sri Lanka v New Zealand 7th ODI - New Zealand vs Sri Lanka Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Feb-2015
Sat 14 22:00 GMT, 11:00 local	Sri Lanka v New Zealand 1st Match, Pool A - ICC World Cup 2015 Hagley Oval, Christchurch
Sun 22 22:00 GMT, 11:00 local	Sri Lanka v Afghanistan 12th Match, Pool A - ICC World Cup 2015 University Oval, Dunedin
Thu 26  03:30 GMT, 14:30 local	Sri Lanka v Bangladesh 18th Match, Pool A - ICC World Cup 2015 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Mar-2015
Sun 01 22:00 GMT, 11:00 local	Sri Lanka v England 22nd Match, Pool A - ICC World Cup 2015 Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Sun 08  03:30 GMT, 14:30 local	Sri Lanka v Australia 32nd Match, Pool A - ICC World Cup 2015 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Wed 11  03:30 GMT, 14:30 local	Sri Lanka v Scotland 35th Match, Pool A - ICC World Cup 2015 Bellerive Oval, Hobart

Note: Fixtures and start times are subject to change. The Cricketworld4u.com is not responsible for any changes that may be made. No responsibility is taken by Cricketworld4u for the accuracy of this information.

A competitor since the inaugural tournament in 1975, Sri Lanka has seen success on the World Cup stage.

 It won the title in 1996, overpowering Australia in the final but was unable to repeat the feat in either 2007 or

 2011 when it was defeated in the final by Australia and India respectively.

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SRI LANKA ANNOUNCE PRELIMINARY 30 MAN WORLD CUP SQUAD

Angelo Mathews-led squad includes nine players from 2011 World Cup and some new faces

Lasith Malinga, Thisara Perera, Tillakaratne Dilshan have all been named in the 30-member squad.

Sri Lanka, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup finalists, has named its preliminary 30-member squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Captained by Angelo Mathews, the squad has a blend of youth and experience with nine players returning from the 2011 event. They include fast bowlers Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara, and Ajantha Mendis, the spinner, who, with experience of Australian and New Zealand conditions, are expected to spearhead Sri Lanka’s bowling attack. The selectors have chosen plenty of pace options keeping the conditions in mind.

Farveez Maharoof and Nuwan Pradeep, who last played a One-Day International for Sri Lanka in 2012, were also included in the squad. The selectors have also included plenty of new faces including Lakshan Sandakan, the Chinaman bowler, and Tharindu Kaushal, the offspinner, who are yet to make their international debut. 

Squad

1). Angelo Mathews (Captain)

2). T M Dilshan

3). Lahiru Thirimanna

4). Kumar Sangakkara

5). Mahela Jayawardene

6). Kusal Janith

7). Upul Tharanga

8). Dimuth Karunarathna

9). Dinesh Chandimal

10). Ashan Priyanjana

11). Kithuruwan Vithanage

12). Niroshan Dickwella

13). Rangana Herath

14). Dilruwan Perera

15). Seekkuge Prasanna

16). Ajantha Mendis

17). Sachithra Senanayaka

18). P H D Kaushal

19). Jeevan Mendis

20). Ramith Rambukwella

21). Suranga Lakmal

22). Nuwan Kulasekara

23). Lasith Malinga

24). Dhammika Prasad

25). Shaminda Eranga

26). Thisara Perera

27). F. Maharoof

28). Nuwan Pradeep

29). Lahiru Gamage

30). Lakshan Sandakan

Source :http://www.icc-cricket.com/

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Philip Revatha (Ray) Wijewardene was born in Colombo, Ceylon, on 20 August 1924

BIOGRAPHY: A MAN FOR ALL ELEMENTS

Philip Revatha (Ray) Wijewardene was born in Colombo, Ceylon, on 20 August 1924. He had his primary and secondary education at Ladies’ College, Colombo, and St Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia. He proceeded to Peterhouse College, Cambridge University, UK, where he studied three branches of engineering -- aeronautical, mechanical and agricultural. He also earned qualifications in business administration from the Harvard Business School, and later received honorary degrees from universities in the UK and Sri Lanka.

With a deep interest for all things mechanical, Ray studied and experimented with both agricultural machinery and aeroplanes. These twin passions were to last a lifetime. He was fond of saying, "Agriculture is my bread and butter, while aviation is the jam on top of it”.

In 1955, Ray designed the world’s first two-wheeled, hand tractor to help small farmers in the tropics to mechanise their work. It was soon mass produced by Landmaster company in Nottingham, UK. During the 1960s, Ray travelled all over Asia, Africa and Latin America promoting the tractor to farmers and governments.

A turning point came in 1964, when he presented his Landmaster experience to a class in agri-business at the Harvard Business School. Buckminster Fuller, the noted American architect, designer and inventor, asked from the audience: “Did your tractor mechanise tropical farming - or just the buffalo?”

That question triggered a complete reorientation in Ray’s thinking. He later acknowledged: “Ultimately, the tractor only mechanised the buffalo, and that too, not very well. It didn’t have the reproductive capability of the buffalo! Nor could it produce milk as the buffalo did, or fertilise our fields!”

Associating Fuller influenced Ray’s thinking not only on tropical farming, but also on appropriate use of science and technology to meet other development needs. He questioned a fundamental premise of the Green Revolution. “All along, its promoters focused on maximising yields through massive (external) inputs. But they forgot that what the farmer wants is to maximize profits, not necessarily yields!”

Ray dedicated the rest of his life to researching and promoting ecologically sustainable agriculture, and later, renewable energy technologies. As a world authority on tropical farming systems, Ray worked for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the early 1970s as Head of Agricultural Engineering at the Mechanization and Automation Research Centre (MARDI), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He then spent nearly five years as Head of Agricultural Engineering and Research at the  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)in Ibadan, Nigeria.

During this time, he pursued a large number of improvements and innovations to help small farmers in the developing world to grow more food without high external inputs. In particular, he promoted a technique called Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT), originally developed in the Philippines. This involved terracing of land, use of leaf mulch, and re-introducing perennial trees into rain-fed farming.

Returning to Sri Lanka in 1980, he continued experimenting with rain-fed farming and agro-forestry on his coconut estate in Kakkapalliya, in the North-western Province. He also did field tests for dendro thermal power, the generation of electricity from firewood. This technology is now increasingly being used by industry. He also introduced inter-cropping gliricidia with coconut, vastly increasing coconut yields.

For decades, Ray worked closely with Sri Lanka’s business, research and policy communities. He held various appointments as Chairman of the Tea Research Board, head of the Inventors Commission and a member of several public sector bodies concerned with agriculture, science and technology. He was Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa from 2002 to 2007. The government of Sri Lanka awarded him the highest national honours of Vidya Jyothi (Luminary of Science) andDeshamanya (Pride of the Nation) for distinguished public service.

Ray was an outstanding sportsman who excelled in water sports. A long-standing member of both the Colombo Rowing Club and the Ceylon Motor Yacht Club, he represented his country in international competitive sailing events. He competed in the Mexico Olympics in 1968, and won a Silver medal at the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1970.

As an aviator, he held pilot license to fly fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and autogyros. He experimented with building and flying ultra-light aircraft and helicopters, and trained a generation of pilots and aircraft technicians.

Ray was also an accomplished violinist and oil painter.

http://www.raywijewardene.net/brief_biography.html

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Facebook now allows you to report links to fake news stories

Everyone on Facebook has that one friend that posts outlandish stories that end up being a hoax, but usually they’re utterly convinced that it’s the real deal.

Today, Facebook has added the ability to flag a news story as a hoax. When you see something that is obviously not real like a made-up celebrity death or fake startup, you can choose to report posts as a “false news story.”



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