MAHELA BECOMES A MILLIONAIRE IN IPL

At the 2012 IPL Auction, Mahela
was sold for the second highest bid –US Dollars 1.4 M 

The auction to select the players for teams of the Indian Premier League 2012 which is to be held in April was held in India yesterday.
Among 69 players who contested for the auction, 25 were sold at various stakes and Mahela was fetched for 1.4 million US $ , Thisara Perera for  US $ 650,000, Muttiah Muralitharan for US $220,000 and Dinsesh Chandimal was purchased for US$50,000 from Sri Lanka.
The cricketer who was sold for the highest bid was India’s own Ravindra Jadeja. He was purchased by the Chennai Super Kings for US $ 2 Million. Mahela was purchased by Delhi Daredevils for the second highest bid which was US $1.4 million. 
Among the cricketers from Sri Lanka  whose names were enlisted for the contest are Chamara Kapugedara, Chanaka Welagedara, Thilina Thushara ,Tilina Kandambi, Jeewan Mendis, Suranga Lakmal, Dhammika Prasad, Sekkuge Prasanna, Dilruwan Perera, Chaminda Eranga, Lahiru Thirumanna, Dimuth Karunaratna, Kaushal Silva, Kusal Perera and Sachithra Senanayake. They are yet to be selected. 
Even though Kumar Sangakkara, Lasith Malinga and Tilakaratna Dilshan did not contest for the auction, they will be playing for the IPL. They did not contest at the auction because they have signed a contract with their teams for more than a year. 
Since Pune Warriors are not playing the IPL the auction was very competitive for the players than it had been in the previous years. For the auction yesterday, the famous Bollywood actor Sharuk Khan, the franchise owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders team too participated. 
The selected cricketers at the auction and the prices they fetched at the auction are shown below in the schedule.

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NO POLITICS NO!-ROHITHA RAJAPAKSA

President’s youngest son Rohitha confesses that he would not be into politics:
I have no intention of coming into politics. I want to become the youngest aircraft pilot: President’s youngest son in an interview with the “ Mawbima” paper had disclosed that would never come into Politics. Presently he is undergoing an aircraft engineering course in the United Kingdom. After studying and going through this course his intention is to follow a post graduate course in Russia on flying. His ambition is to become perhaps the youngest aircraft pilot. Other than his hobbies would remain as Rugby and motor racing. The entire interview he had with the “ Mawbima” paper could be read from HERE:

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TV PRESENTERS MISSING HAIR WIG

The Police and Navy personnel have been deployed to locate the lost hair wig of popular TV presenter.

The Police and Navy personnel have been deployed to locate the lost hair wig of popular TV presenter.
A very popular TV presenter and a presenter of songs in TV channels is presently faces with a very embarrassing situation as he cannot present his usual TV programmes without his familiar hair ‘wig’ which had been stolen during a clash for a minor offence, he has had with a person while attending to a wedding ceremony in Galle area.
This incident had occurred while an argument had arisen, between the TV Presenter and subsequently a collision had occurred accidently with a person who was attending the wedding ceremony. It had ultimately ended after the clash the TV presenter. The expensive imitation wig had fallen and had been grabbed by someone, most probably by the person with whom he had collided with him, for a minor incidence, who is yet to be identified. This matter has been reportedly, and very reliably and seriously learnt that investigations are carried out to find the lost’ wig’. This had caused the TV presenter in preventing in presenting his usual TV programme owing to the loss of the expensive ‘wig’. The Police with the assistance of Navy personnel are making desperate investigations to find the person who clashed with the TV presenter and robbed the ’wig’ of the TV presenter.
It is reliably learnt that this TV presenter has had some conflicts with the Police on earlier occasions too.

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PRESIDENT HAS A CLOSE VIEW AT HOLYFIELD’S EAR

President looks and feels Holyfield’s ear with enthusiasm

Former World’s Heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield visited Sri Lanka, yesterday for a matter of just 12 hours while on transit.
Evander Holyfield was world’s Boxing Heavy Weight champion during the period 1990-1993 and in the year 2000. His closest contender in the year 1997 was controversial fellow boxer Mike Tyson. During this famous fight Mike Tyson used a dirty tactic by biting the right ear of Evander Holyfield during the early part of the much awaited clash. To made him feel mentally down when he bit the right ear of Holyfied causing a big damage to his ear.
Evander Holyfield who visited Sri Lanka during Tsunami period is an American citizen. Out of 57 heavy Weight bout he had won 44 of them. He was considered as the World’s greatest Heavy Weight boxing champion. During his short visit to Sri Lanka he paid a courtesy call to ‘Temple Trees’ to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The President was very much interested in feeling and having a close look at Evander Holyfield’s ear which was badly bitten by Mike Tyson during that famous World Heavy weight boxing clash.
The video of this incident is shown below how Mike Tyson bit Holyfield’s ear during that particular bout:
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LADY DRIVER FIGHTS WITH TRAFFIC POLICE CONSTABLE FOR CAR KEY

Lady driver battles with traffic police constable for her car key and injures herself:

The discipline of the traffic Police officers should be tolerated and at the same time should also be given due respect to the traffic Police officers by both male and female drivers. A case has been reported from Kandy where a traffic Police constable had fought with lady diver causing her to take treatment from the Kandy General Hospital for minor injuries caused during a collision to grab the car key.
The case is reported from an incident from William Gopallawa main road in Kandy last Saturday. A traffic Police constable attached to the Kandy Police station while on duty had tried to grab the car key of a lady driver who had purportedly parked the car blocking the route of the traffic flow. For this wrong exercise the traffic Police constable had tried to grab the key from the lady driver. During the battle for the key the lady had been admitted to the General Hospital kandy.
Instead of politely requesting the car key from the lady driver, the traffic Police constable had tried to grab it from the lady driver. When the case was reported to the Police, the DIG, Central Province H.N.B. Abanwela had an impartial inquiry and had ordered the traffic police constable to be interdicted, it is reliably reported.

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