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► Prohibition imposed on Ministries and state institutions from publishing promotional newspaper advertisements ► Special committee to be set up ro resolve issues caused by irregular finance bodies within six months ► Public transportation costs to reduce by 50% for senior citizens ► Every citizen to have a bank account - can be opened in commercial banks with an initial deposit of Rs. 250 ► Sri lankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka to be merged to reduced the losses ► Sri Lankan Airlines and Mihin Airlines have incurred heavy losses  - within five years over Rs. 100 billion due to management inefficiencies/ Mihin Air Rs.15 billion during the past five years. ► Dahami Diriya for  Sunday  school teachers - a monthly sum of Rs. 200 to be paid ► Rs. 250 monthly allowance to be paid to pre-school teachers ► Mahapola scholarship fee to be increased up-to Rs. 5000 ► Special facilities for disabled w...

Electronics major Samsung Tuesday said it has invested Rs.517 crore for the expansion of its Noida plant under the UP Mega Policy. The expanded facility of Samsung India was inaugurated by UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav here Tuesday. Samsung India Electronics has completed 20 years in India and now has three research labs and two manufacturing plants in the country with a total of 45,000 employees. “Uttar Pradesh is one of the most important states for Samsung and the expansion of the Noida Mobile unit will further strengthen our presence in the country and enhance our manufacturing operations. The Noida factory is a star performer and rates as one of the best facilities across the globe,” Hyun Chil Hong, president & chief executive officer, Samsung India Electronics, said. “Currently over 11,000 Samsung employees are working in UP and we are looking forward to creating more job opportunities in the state,” he added. The new phone "Samsung Z1" will also b...

Astronomers have found that the ring system they saw eclipsing a very young Sun-like star -- known as J1407 -- is of enormous proportions, much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn. The ring system - the first of its kind to be found outside our solar system - was discovered in 2012 by a team led by Eric Mamajek from the University of Rochester in Britain. A new analysis of the data, led by Matthew Kenworthy from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, shows that the ring system consists of over 30 rings - each of them tens of millions of kms in diameter. Furthermore, they found gaps in the rings, which indicate that satellites (or exomoons) may have formed. "The details that we see in the light curve are incredible. The eclipse lasted for several weeks, but you see rapid changes on time scales of tens of minutes as a result of fine structures in the rings," Kenworthy said. The star is much too far away to observe the rings directly, but we could...

The US technology giant Apple has announced its biggest quarterly profits that has been ever made by a public company. Apple has reported a net profit to the tune of $18bn for the fiscal first quarter, that exceeds $15.9bn of ExxonMobil that created a record during the second quarter of 2012, according to organization Standard and Poor's. The surge is being attributed to the record sales of iPhones in terms of profits. Apple had sold 74.5 million iPhones for three months till 27 December which actually exceeded analyst's expectations.

YouTube has made an announcement today that its Web video player would be now defaulting to HTML5 through Adobe Flash which gives more flexibility for bloggers, developers and consumers. The team had worked on switching to HTML5 players that was reportedly marked by numerous technical issues YouTube would also be making use of MediaSource Extensions for running smooth live streams on many devices, including the Playstation 4, Xbox One, Chromecast and other popular Web browsers like Safari 8, Chrome, and IE 11. This is being seen as overdue for the company in making this standard platform available.

There were reports recently that Google Fiber is soon coming to Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham in 2015 and now sources say these are not the only cities which are involved. The gigabit internet service is all set to make its foray into Atlanta, GA and  also Nashville, TN in addition to above mentioned cities of North Carolina which makes this as the largest ever Fiber rollout so far. Google is reportedly working with city leaders for past one year in a joint planning for building and upgrading the infrastructure required for deploying high speed connections. Google is also expected to bring this ultra speed broadband to five other areas such as Phoenix, San Antonio and San Jose soon.

අපේ ආතා හොඳ සර්ප විෂ වෛද්‍යවරයෙක්.යන්ත්‍ර මන්ත්‍ර ශාස්ත්‍රය එහෙමත් හොඳට දන්නවා.දැනට ජීවතුන් අතර නෑ. මැරෙන්න කලින් මම ලියා ගත්ත  මන්ත්‍ර  අතරින් කාටත් ප්‍රයෝජනවත් විය හැකි කීපයක් ඕගොල්ලන්ට කියා දෙන්න හිතුනා. මේවයින් කීපයක සත්‍යතාවය මම බලල තියෙනවා. මස් මාංශ අනුභවයෙන් තොරව නාල පිරිසිදු වෙලා පන්සිල් අරගෙන ගෞරවයෙන් මේ කටයුතු කළ යුතුයි. 21 වරක් ගැනීමට කෝපි ඇට 21ක් ගෙන එක් වරක් මැතිරූ පසු එක් ඇටයක් පසෙකට කරන්න.(ගණන් කිරිමේ පහසුව පිණිස ). ඉරටුවක් දෙකට නමා දෙහි හෝ තැඹිලි ගෙඩිය කලතන්නේ නම් මැනවි. ~සියලු බඩේ අමාරු/ අජීර්ණ වලට~ දෙහි ඇඹුල් පීරිසියකට ගෙන මෙයින් 21 වරක් මතුරා බොන්න දෙන්න. ------------------------------------------------------------ "ඕං නමෝ අප සම්මා සම්බුදු අමා මෑණියන් වහන්සේට රක්ත අතීසාර රෝගයක් අල්ලච්චෙයි කියා ජීවක නම් වෙදා ගෙන්වූ තැනේදී ඔහු සතු බෙහෙත් නේරංජරා නම් ගංගාවට දැමූ කල්හි එඟග උඩුගං හැරුණු ආනුභාවයෙන් ආඥාවෙන් අදත් මෙකුන්ගේ බඩේ හට ගන්නා බඩේ රුදා,ගුල්ම රුදා,අමියා,අජීර්ණ,ඔක්කාර,වමන,අතීසාර සැණෙන් ගුණ වන්න සිද්ධ පත්තිනි අණින්,වෙසමුණි අණින් වරම්! එදා අප අමාමෑණියන් ...

Welcome to my first article on Android tutorial. This section will teach you on how to start working with Android. As you may have noticed, most of the program that I have uploaded here are Visual Basic and PHP. I am not actually used with Java, but after trying a few code, I found it interesting to work with it especially Android programming. After two weeks of working with Eclipse, I managed to learn a lot of things about Android programming. So, basically the purpose of this section is to teach you what I have learned during my experiment with Java language particularly in Android. If you want to learn something new, be sure to read a lot of tutorial before jumping to the most advanced topic. This will probably save you time and energy. Now, are you ready to our next tutorial? Head on to the following guide on how to get Android running on your computer for the very first time. Get the Android SDK Android SDK is all you need to have before you can start programmi...