Chicks dig superheroes … just ask the crime-fighting MMA fighter in Texas who’s been hit with a tidal wave of marriage proposals ever since he beat up 3 gas station robbers earlier this month! Houston’s most eligible bachelor is Mayura Dissanayake — who became an instant celebrity when he left his post as a clerk…
Around 5,000 houses being constructed by the Urban Development Authority (UDA) among the low facility areas in Colombo could be distributed among these people, says the UDA. Divisional head of the Urban Regeneration Project, E.A.C. Priyashantha told adaderanabiz.lk that the UDA has planned to construct around 70,000 houses for those living in low facility dwellings…
If you ask Mayura Dissanayake what he was thinking when he rushed from his post behind the cash register of a Houston gas station and straight into the teeth of a violent armed robbery in progress earlier this month, he’ll tell you it was simple. “I wasn’t thinking,” Dissanayake tells USA TODAY Sports. “I just…
A Texas gas station clerk who moonlights as an MMA fighter managed to save a co-worker from an attempted robbery earlier this month, earning praise from UFC president Dana White in the process. Mayura Dissanayake, a semi-pro competitor, was working behind the counter at a Fuel Depot on July 10 when he noticed a pair…
A foreign investor has reportedly submitted a project proposal for the construction of one of the two proposed hotels at the new city to be established by the Urban Development Authority (UDA) at the Southern Expressway interchange at Makumbura in Kottawa. While commenting on this to adaderanabiz.lk, UDA Deputy Director – Planning Division, Ms. Priyani…
While the Urban Development Authority (UDA) plans to allocate 1.5 acres of the five acre land it owns in the Kottawa town for a new bus stand, the balance 3.5 acres is to be provided to state and private banks to establish their branches. The Bank of Ceylon and the National Savings Bank have already…
Preparations have been made to bring 23 contestants who have qualified for the final round of the Chinese Universal Beauty Queen Contest to Sri Lanka as a strategy to attract more Chinese tourists to the island. It was revealed during a media conference in Colombo that these 23 Chinese Beauty Queens would tour Sri Lanka…
Maarten de Jonge changed planes at the last minute, avoiding the disasters that hit both passenger jets A cyclist who was due to fly on doomed flight MH370 but changed planes at the last minute has cheated death for a second time, after swapping off flight MH17 because he found a cheaper fare. Maarten de…
Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Ajith Nivard Cabraal urges Sri Lankan pilgrims to Dambadiva, India not to put Sri Lankan coins into tills at places of worship. Around 20 tons of coins put into tills at places of pilgrimage at Dambadiva are lying without being used at such pilgrimage sites and moves…
Many of the passengers aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday were World Health Organization staffers heading to a conference on AIDS research in Australia, the Guardian reported. Approximately 100 of the passengers on board were heading to Melbourne for the conference, The Sydney Morning Herald reports, citing conference attendees….
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