In Sri Lanka, the road continues through the town of Talaimannar and the Sri Lankan cities of Mannar, Anuradhapura, Dambulla (AH44), Kurunegala, Kandy, Colombo, Galle and Matara.
1983 Batticaloa Jailbreak, carried out by Tamil militants in September 1983 in Sri Lanka.
Outsider Television went on to produce several documentaries for various television channels, including Dispatches, Enemies Within and Sri Lanka's Killing Fields for Channel 4, Witness and People in Power for Al Jazeera and Panorama for the BBC.
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.
Grant McCann Erickson is a leading Sri Lankan advertising agency and part of the McCann Worldgroup which has offices in over 130 countries and almost eight decades of multinational experience.
The grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in the highlands of the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka, and in patches of riparian forest along the Kaveri River and in the hill forests in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southern India.
It had a civilian observer mission in Sri Lanka in co-operation with Norway (previously a Nordic mission) and has explosive ordnance disposal personnel from the Icelandic Coast Guard to Lebanon and Iraq.
The Sri Lankan chronicle Rajavaliya says that Matara was given to Samarakoon Ralahami for exceptional valor at war.
The Lyceum International School, popularly known as LIS, is a private International school providing primary and secondary education in Sri Lanka.
Later he became the commanding officer of the 4 (V) Design Ceylon Engineers; Army units in Mannar; Echelon Barracks; Army units in Jaffna; Sri Lanka Army Pioneer Corps and the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, Sri Lanka Armoured Corps.
The Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph appealed both sides to respect the area as a no-war zone.
The Dutch campaign against the Portuguese began in Jaffna, passing Mannar, Tuticorin and Nagapattinam and ended in South India.
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.
Mapalagama Liyanage Neville Kingsley Pierre De Silva ( Professor Kingsley De Silva) 'born on October 26, 1932 in Kandana, Sri Lanka, was one of the leading Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Sri Lanka
Students are also represented from neighbouring countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka as well as others like Kuwait, South Korea, Thailand and the USA among others.
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.
Born to Arthur (proprietor planter) & Henrietta Weeratunga (née Gurusingha) of Matara and he had one sister, Krishnajina who married Ana Seneviratne ( former Sri Lankan Inspector-General of Police).
Nagpur is also at the junction of two Asian Highways namely AH43 Agra, India to Matara, Sri Lanka and AH46 connecting Kharagpur, India to Dhule, India Moreover, Nagpur city has come in the national spotlight recently for its good roads, which were developed as part of the upgradation and renewal works under Integrated Road Development Project (IRDP), spearheaded by the erstwhile Commissioner of the Corporation Dr. T Chandrashekhar.
He was ordained as a Buddhist monk at the age of 12, and received his education at Migadaya Pirivena,(a monk's school) in Matara.
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Under-21 Cricket T20 was introduced for the first time in the SA Games, with Bangladesh emerged victorious beating Sri Lanka in the closely contested final.
Adele Balasingham moved with her husband initially to Madras in India then on to northern part of Sri Lanka in Jaffna during the early stages of the Sri Lankan civil war that started after the 1983 Black July pogrom.
It was established in 1082 AH/1671 AD by the venerated Muslim savant and saint of the Arwi region (modern-day South India and Sri Lanka), Shaikh Ṣadaqatullāh b.
Having lived in the city of Perth for some 14 years and meeting band members, Malaysian born Arun Satgunasingam (drummer and percussionist) and percussionist Sri Lankan born Kanchana Karunaratna, the band has been exposed to new influences which leads to what Blue Shaddy are today.
Clarence Wijewardena was born on 3 August 1943, in Haputale, Sri Lanka, to an estate medical practitioner.
Clifton Cricket Club has employed such professionals as Pakistani international Mansoor Rana and Sri Lankan U19s Captain Chintaka Jayasinghe.
Dayantha "Dai" Liyanage, MBE, FMS, MCMI is a Sri Lankan born British politician and a management consultant.
It was described by Walker in 1865, and is known from New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
Pahiyangala Cave is a cave in the district of Kalutara, Western Province, Sri Lanka, according to a village legend named after the Buddhist monk Faxian (Wade-Giles: Pa hiyan).
For the same year, 69.7% of referrals were from the following 10 countries: Iran (267), Sri Lanka (233), Afghanistan (108), Democratic Republic of Congo (90), Turkey (79), Pakistan (56), Uganda (52), Iraq (48), Nigeria (45) and Sudan (39).
He was born at Goatfell Estate, Kandapola, Sri Lanka where his father, Charles Reid Henry, managed tea estates.
Great Basses Reef Lighthouse is an offshore lighthouse in the south of Sri Lanka, and it is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Navy.
Harees returned to Parliament in April 2010, this time representing Ampara for the United National Front.
Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrema, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, qfi, SLAF is a Sri Lankan fighter pilot and the current Commander of the Sri Lankan Air Force.
Ali was appointed a United National Front National List MP in April 2010.
Boustead was born on 14 April 1895 in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, the son of a local tea planter who later became a director of The Imperial Ethiopian Rubber Company.
In Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, they are variously known as Edigas, Goud, Billava, Bhandari, Srisayana, or Setti Balijas and Nadar, Illathu Pillaimar in Tamil Nadu and Jaiswal, Poojary in Maharastra and Nalavar, Durave in Sri Lanka and also spread over in different cstes name in all over India.
Indradasa Hettiarachchi was a former Minister of Industries and Member of Parliament representing Horana in the Kalutara District, Sri Lanka.
Bilateral relations refers to the bilateral relations between the Sri Lanka and Japan.
Major General Jayantha de S. Jayaratne, VSV, ndc, IG, SLA was a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna (SF HQ (J)).
The Kandalama Reservoir (also erroneously known as the Kandalama Lake) is a reservoir in Kandalama, Sri Lanka.
A reason to call on the British for assistance by the Kandyan King in 1762 was that after the treaty of Paris, the Dutch poured troops into Sri Lanka.
They can be up to 40 cm long (including the tail), are considered a pest in the cereal crops and gardens of India and Sri Lanka, and emit piglike grunts when attacking.
From October 1910 to December 1911, Scherman and his wife Christine undertook an extended research trip to Ceylon (today Sri Lanka), Burma (today Myanmar), and India (today India and Pakistan).
The name Marakkalage derives from the type of craft Marakkar (Marakkalam in Tamil means Wooden Ship) used in trade and warfare by the rulers of the Kuru Mandala coast (the region of the Kurus) and Sri Lanka.
Meadows' third book is a travelogue of Sri Lanka and study of the Tamil militant movement titled, "Tea Time With Terrorists,".
Operation Trishul, along with Operation Viraat, was an anti-insurgency operation launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in April 1988 in Northern Sri Lanka, in the provinces of Maannar to Mullaitivu and Elephant Pass to Vavuniya.
In the 1960s Clarence Wijewardena was mentored by the pioneer Radio Ceylon broadcaster, Vernon Corea who helped him to reach the pinnacle of fame in the music world in Sri Lanka.
Post-conflict history of Sri Lanka is the history of Sri Lanka from the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War, in 2009, to the present.
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.
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.
He embraced Buddhism in 1966 in India, where he was ordained at the Bengal Buddhist Association of Calcutta, and spent several years as a monk in Island Hermitage and elsewhere in Sri Lanka.
in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Systomus pleurotaenia, the Side Striped Barb or Black lined barb, is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Sri Lanka where it occurs in the catchment of the Kelani and Nilwala Rivers.
Later Siri Gunasinghe became a university lecturer and taught at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada where he was a Professor in the Department of History in Art.
Stigmatogobius sadanundio is a species of goby native to south Asia from India to Indonesia including Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands.
These are the earliest documents of a Dravidian language, and the script was well established in the Chera and Pandyan states, in what is now Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and northern Sri Lanka.
In Nallur, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Thai Pusam festival is conducted at Nallur Kandhasamy Temple.
Annual International Conventions are held at Irumbuliyur in Chennai, India, Kottarakara in Kerala India, Kokkavila, Chilaw in Sri Lanka, Ohio, USA and in Toronto, Canada.
In 1971 a Lieutenant Colonel, he saw combat during the 1971 Insurrection as coordinating officer, Moneragala District and later took command of the Ceylon Army General Service Corps and the Ceylon Army Pioneer Corps.
Tissa Wewa is one of the main lakes in Sri Lanka in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura built by King Devanampiyatissa.
This type is nicknamed in Sri Lanka as the 'Rukmani Model' because the singer and actress Rukmani Devi was travelling in one when it met with the accident that killed her.
The Udawalawe Elephant Transfer Home is a facility within Udawalawe National Park in Sri Lanka that was established in 1995 by the Sri Lanka Department of Wildlife Conservation.
In 1991 he was part of a German archaeological team under the direction of the late Prof. Dr. Klaus Kilian (1939–1992) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) excavating in Pidurangula, Central Province, Sri Lanka.
Viraj Mendis is a Sri Lankan national who claimed the right of sanctuary at the Church of the Ascension in Hulme, Manchester, England during the 1980s.
Yasodara Devi Balika Maha Vidyalaya is a girls' school located in Gampaha district in Sri Lanka.