Case against Vijayakala Maheswaran postponed

Sri Lanka’s Eshan Pieris secures Silver Class win at GT3 racing series

Sri Lanka’s Eshan Pieris came home with a triumphant win in the Silver Cup category at round four of the GT World Challenge Asia (GTWC) held at the Chang International Circuit in Thailand. The victory cemented a positive weekend for the Sri Lankan driver, who also scored a podium the day before, in round three. Eshan credited the collaborative effort that went into preparing the car. “We worked really hard together to get the car to work and today we got some results for our work,” he remarked

13 May, 2024

Major Derby hotel sold to new owners from Sri Lanka

A major hotel in Derby, UK has been sold to a Sri Lankan company, Derbyshire Live reported. The Grade II-listed Cathedral Quarter Hotel in St Mary’s Gate has been bought by Rashmi Dedigama and Peter Karan of Lavendish Leisure, a subsidiary of the Dedigama Group, for an undisclosed amount The city centre hotel, where the late Queen Elizabeth II dined in 2010, which earned the head chef her personal thanks, has 38 individually designed ensuite bedrooms. It is a Victorian property that previously

13 May, 2024

Widely shared images of “chikibilla” in Sri Lanka found to be fake

Widely shared images of the “chikibilla” in Sri Lanka have been found to be fake, AFP reported. According to AFP, a national park in Sri Lanka said it had recorded no sightings of a “chikibilla”, contradicting social media posts that said the dinosaur-like creature had re-emerged there after it was thought to be extinct. Wildlife experts also told AFP that no such creature exists. The images appeared to have been digitally manipulated. “The ‘Chikibilla’, which was thought to be extinct, has b

13 May, 2024