This is one of the most scariest, hair-raising, blood-curdling feelings i've ever had in the recent times. No need to quote those creepy decisions taken by the HE now, yet his silence when two political fronts with the largest followings have had key gathering on yesterday and today, with almost 3 months to the next Presidential Election (PE), should make ...
FB is facing growing Govt scrutiny in Europe, America, India, when allegations came out last week (2018), by a whistleblower remarked that 'Cambridge Analytica' - a British consultancy, had improperly accessed user data, to build profiles on American voters, which were later used to help elect Donald Trump in 2016. Since last week's allegations, FB has lost close to $ ...
Why would Emirates send their crew to a football field - to do a demo in front of 65K Benfica fans? It's one of those usual stunts (by sponsors) you could see in a football game, but this time it's awesome, simply coz the activation blends in with Football - in this case, with S.L. Benfica of course, its enthusiastic ...
L - Bhathiya Jayakody - R - Santhush WeeramanNot definitely with a quest to build an entire 'Entertainment Empire', these two youngsters embarked on a journey, something catchy but dubbed with actions that attracted a lot of criticism from many corners in the society. They were singing/communicating to them Sri Lankans who were 'sandwiched' in the society, between those elite ...
Following an interview with PM Ranil Wickremasinghe, India's NDTV had tweeted (mis)quoting the PM "In principle, we have agreed to full autonomy to Tamil areas, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe tells NDTV". Interestingly such statement has neither been recorded in the video clip nor mentioned in the article published in their website. Amidst the continuous requests on NDTV to ...
Arvind Gupta, head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT division / IT Cell, a key figure in installing the former Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi as India's 15th (Current) Prime Minister, has been hired by the Sri Lankan Government, in steering & strengthening President Mahinda Rajapakse's social media strategy. The nerve centre: Arvind Gupta inspecting his team in BJP's digital ...
For the food, especially for Burger lovers, this has been the most amazing news besides all the somewhat great dining deals that are offered by Pubs, star-graded establishments, restaurants, tea lounges to coffee shops and other fast food joints, during this Christmas season. Burger King; which was teasing the Sri Lankans' taste buds for a pretty long time with their ...
According to O'Leary; Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity. Charging for toilets continues to be the number one story that resurfaces in the press and it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Although this radical CEO + Marketing Director claims that they’d never done it, he claims it keeps coming up on social networks ...
IIHE's team of ICT students: Club ICT have made arrangements to celebrate The Software Freedom Day, on Saturday the 17th, at the university premises. According to the organizers, the event will comprise of four major lecture sessions. The lectures are to cover the following areas:Why Free and Open Source software and Why people should care about itInstall ...
Emmanuel Kelly auditioningat X Factor Pic Courtesy:Channel 7 SuppliedTGIF! Yeah.. and I'm more than happy that I didn't worry myself too much, even I was told to come home via the most hectic bus routes. Simply, I managed to catch the bus :) and that "Langama" bus was awesome which made me to tweet couple of times, with the hashtag #langamarox. As soon ...
The Common room, or "Students' area" in my uni (as branded by the students themselves, lecturers and even the minor staff), accommodates all the half-broken computer chairs, tables, the legendary Table Tennis gear and some tennis balls with bats. Also, this got a wooden floor for those dance geeks who are willing to move themselves into the tunes of Salsa, Jive, ChaCha or whatever they ...
Sri Lanka Cricket’s Interim Committee members appeared before the media today (20). Sujeewa Rajapakse, Treasurer to the SLC, Nishantha Ranathunga, Secretary to the SLC, Eshana De Silva, Acting Chairman of the SLC and Ajith Jayasekara, the Chief Executive Officer of SLC were present at the head table.In today’s media briefing, Secretary to the SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket), Mr. Nishantha Ranathunga ...
Hashan Tillakaratne, who was acclaimed as a defensive batsman in the then Sri Lankan batting line-up, is keeping onto his ‘signature batting style’ though he had retired from one-day cricket in 2003!The cricketer turned politician of the opposition, Tillakaratne claimed that match-fixing had been rampant in Sri Lanka since 1992. He also said that he was determined to reveal the ...
Sri Lanka's Number one sports website: ThePapare.com is at the verge of throwing out a campaign, in recruiting new reporters, writers, photographers, videographers, producers, production co-ordinators and aspiring marketers. The campaign titled, "The Hunt is on for 'Paparites'" will go online, in the coming weekend and may be around next week. The main obje
'Tesco', has already planned to build up an advisory board, made up of school children, aged between nine years to 12 years, in helping with the supermarket chain's 'Tesco for Schools & Clubs programme'. The said advisory board will include six 'young entrepreneurs', as they prove they have a talent in making decisions, and sensory vision ...
World's number one Cola company, Coca Cola is yet again planning on revolutionizing its marketing communications strategies, as they touch upon their consumers' love for music! The company also uses its 'love for music' on par with its 'Open Happiness' campaign, that has strategically being launched in over 200 globa
With much intensified hopes and expectations, a 109 strong Sri Lankan delegation flew to Guangzhou to take part in the 16th Asian Games on the 11th of November. The same number returned to the island with shattered hopes and neither a single medal nor record breaking performances, in their respective events. The Sri Lankan delegation which took part in the ...
If you are a regular online enthusiast, you may come across various characters, stuff and many interesting topics to discuss and share upon. Now I'm gonna share one of those 'believable' set of information, I received via email, just two hours ago. It is recommended to share this amongst your loved ones and spread the message whenever ...
The year 2010 started off by giving the incumbent president HE Mahinda Rajapakse a landslide victory over his former Army commander Gen. (Rtd.) Sarath Fonseka. At the aftermath of this Presidential Election came the General Election for which almost half of the registered voters, were boozed out and had almost forgotten to cast their votes! Then came the price hikes ...
Almost after two months, I was thinking of writing a post on the 'much anticipated' Bradby Train & the Second Leg of the Bradby. However, thanks to the load of presentations, mid terms and assignments I not only missed the golden opportunity to get into the Bradby Train which was railed after 20+ years, but ...
