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Following a meeting at Temple Trees, Naushad defected from the SLMC to the governing United People's Freedom Alliance during the 2010 parliamentary election campaign and became a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
After working briefly as a junior professor in Kerala, he spent the rest of his life in Sri Lanka, teaching botany in several colleges before retiring in 1959 as a teacher at Thurstan College, Colombo.
AIIMS was inaugurated in 1956, and was built with a grant from the Government of New Zealand under the Colombo Plan.
Born in Colombo, to Tamil father Tyronne Mathews and Burgher Sinhalese mother Monica Mathews, he captained the Sri Lankan cricket team in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.
On 19 March 2012 evening, Jude was rushed to the Colombo North Ragama hospital due to a Cardiac arrest and at 11.20 pm he was pronounced dead at the admission to the hospital.
Nehra started playing first-class cricket for his hometown, Delhi, in the 1997/1998 season and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1999 and his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare in 2001.
The Colombo Judicial Medical Officer Dr. L.B. De Alwis, held a post mortem and recorded the cause of the death of Athulathmudali as fatal firearm wounds to the liver, heart and lungs and cause of the death of slain Tamil youth identified as Appiah Balakrishnan alias Ragunathan as cyanide poisoning.
airtel covers 30% of the population with 3G like Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Matara, Ampara Jaffna, Badulla, Bandarawela and airtel has covered Colombo and greater Colombo using the HSPA+ technology.
The Canada national cricket team toured Sri Lanka in May 2001 season and played eight one-day matches against various provincial teams in Colombo, Galle, Moratuwa and Gampaha.
She appeared in The Greek Tycoon (1978), Rough Cut (1980), and the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Colombo (played by Israeli actor Topol).
Celestina Dias (11 July 1858–26 March 1933) (née Patthinihennadige Warnadeepthia Kurukulasuriya Rodrigo), also known as Mrs. Jeremias Dias, was the wife of Jeremias Dias of Panadura, who is known for beginning the premier Buddhist School for girls in Sri Lanka, Visakha Vidyalaya, located in Bambalapitiya, Colombo.
It was originally built in the 1920s to remember both Ceylonese and Europeans from Ceylon who were killed in World War I, was constructed at the Galle Face Green.
Ratmalana Airport, the minor international airport serving the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Bandaranaike International Airport, the major international airport serving the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Colombo Port currently has three container terminals: Jaya Container Terminal (JCT), South Asia Gateway Terminal (SAGT - operated by John Keells Holdings) and Unity Container Terminal (UCT).
The Prasada Pranama award in 1996 from the University of Sri Lanka in Colombo for his contribution to Sri Lankan Theatre and Cinema.
Born in Colombo, Ceylon, Rutnam was educated at Royal College Colombo where he captained the college cricket team at the Royal–Thomian.
Ellakkala is situated 46.2 km from Colombo Capital, 75.4 km from Kandy, 52.8 km from Kurunegala, 39.1 km from Katunayake International Airport, 26.6 km from Awissawella.
PGIA's Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program was initiated in 1998 and is the first such Programme offered in Sri Lanka outside Colombo, and the third to be offered by a public university in the country.
Joseph Colombo (1914–1978), American gangster, boss of the Colombo crime family
He carried out projects abroad as well, including designing and constructing a drainage and water supply system for Buenos Aires, and water supply schemes for Naples, Constantinople and Colombo.
Colombo succeeded in winning the initial round of the online competition—whose goal was a live performance at the finale of the Last Comic Standing season—but ultimately lost to comedians Theo Von and Josh Wolf.
After an intense undercover investigation, Paciello was arrested on racketeering and murder charges and went on to testify against known members and associates of the Colombo and Bonanno crime families.
The team included Norwegian national footballers Solveig Gulbrandsen, Trine Rønning, Christine Colombo Nilsen and Isabell Herlovsen.
The village was called "Chinna Colombo" (Little Colombo) by the surrounding people, as the villagers (especially the Christians) have traveled and worked in Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Rangoon (also known as Yangoon, Capital of Myanmar) prior to India's Independence.
He served as president of the Ceylon Cricket Association for about 14 years and the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, also known as the P Sara Oval or Colombo Oval, was named after him.
The crew then continued their descent until the aircraft crashed into Saptha Kanya Mountain at an altitude of approximately 4,355 feet and at around 40 nm east of Colombo.
Mendis has also played his classic hit 'Master Sir' in front of capacity crowds in concerts organised in Colombo.
He painted canvases depicting San Vincenzo de Paoli, Parisina, Cristoforo Colombo (Columbus), Byron, a depiction of The Prisoner of Chillon from Byron's poem, Galileo Galilei, Camoens, The Surprised Bather, and the Ultimate Riches.
As a child, during the era of Syenda Taher Saifuddin, he began the recitation of the Quran in Saifee Villa; Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Holding the post until 1953, Departments of Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Paediatrics, Parasitology and Pharmacology were established in the Colombo Medical Faculty and postgraduate examinations in Medicine (MD, MS and MOG) also commenced during this period.
During his studies, he discovered the prehistoric zone of Colombo at Mori in Trentino.
He was able to win the cooperation of current British Governor Sir Graeme Thompson, Sir Herbert Stanley and Sir Murchison Fletcher in his effort to acquire more space for Ananda College and Nalanda College Colombo.
Piliyandala, Sri Lanka is one of the relatively more populated suburbs located in the Colombo District of the Western Province, Sri Lanka and it is surrounded by Moratuwa, Kesbawa, Maharagama, Pannipitiya, Bandaragama, and Kahathuduwa, which are suburbs nearby.
Red Bull X-Fighters had its biggest event in Sri Lanka, Colombo at Galle Face Green on 2010 with a record 230,000 spectators on site.
In Colombo, British Ceylon, the couple accidentally and awkwardly end up next to each other in a rickshaw, not knowing the other had even gotten off the ship.
Other overseas assignments include serving as Deputy Principal Officer in Cape Town, South Africa; Economic Officer in Libreville, Gabon; Political Officer in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Vice Consul in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
There are number of bus routes passing the area starting from Colombo, Maharagama, Kottawa, Aturuguruya, Malabe and Homagama.
Popular Film, Stage and Tele Drama Actor Gamini Hettiarachchi was one of his notable classmates at Nalanda College Colombo.
Severing for twenty nine years in the Army he held several senior commands such as; General Officer Commanding 51 Division SLA and 54 Division SLA; Commander 12 Brigade Group, Colombo; Commander 15 Brigade Group, Mannar; Commanding Officer of 6th Regiment Sri Lanka Artillery; Coordinating Chief Batticalao, Ampara, Polonnaruwa Districts and Coordinating Officer Welioya.
When they arrived in Colombo, it was very hot, and Rhodes was uncomfortable in his clothing.
Sonae Imobiliária opened CascaiShopping in 1991 - the first regional shopping centre built in Portugal, and Centro Colombo in 1997 - the first super-regional shopping center and still the biggest in the Iberian Peninsula.
Many moors in the central and west of the island are related to business, industrialists, professionals or civil servants and are mainly concentrated in Kandy, Colombo, Kalutara, Beruwala, Puttalam and Mannar .
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Along with those in the Central Province, the surname of many Moors in Colombo, Kalutara and Puttalam is their fathers' first name, which is similar to the traditional Arab and Middle Eastern kinship system.
In the spring of 1964, the Cristoforo Colombo carried the Pietà from the Vatican to the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Two grenades were thrown into the advertising office of the Sudar Oli and Uthayan in Wellawatte, Colombo on 20 August 2005, but failed to explode.
Located in 9 countries such as India, Singapore, London, Colombo, Dubai etc., Tanla employees more than 300 telecom professionals and is listed in BSE and NSE in India.
He was an educator, sharing his expertise with university students in Sri Lanka - Dr. Herat was a visiting lecturer at the University of Colombo and the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, SEACEN Research and Training Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.
The Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa and their historical development in Ceylon, translated into English by Ethel M. Coomaraswamy, Colombo 1908.