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On 14 May 2016 the Meteorology Department issued a severe weather advisory for twelve hours commencing 11:30 IST. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Up to 100mm of rain was expected in parts of eastern and southern Sri Lanka with wind speeds up to 70-80 kmh at sea.
Dr. Ananda D.P Jayatilaka was a medical doctor and did his PhD in anatomy in 1964 at University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He was also Dean of the medical school of the University of Peradeniya (1973-1975) in Kandy and he attended Royal College Colombo 7. Descendants of the Jayatilaka family now live in Australia and Canada.
The Kandy Airport is a proposed domestic airport in the central city of Kandy in Kundasale, Sri Lanka, aimed at facilitating growth in the influx of tourists to the Central Province. Domestic operations from Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo are set begin with the new domestic carrier Cinnamon Air . [ 1 ]
Fifteen people were killed. [3] The dead include three members of the same family who drowned near the capital Colombo, [2] an 11-year-old girl. and a 20-year-old man who was buried alive in the mudslide, and nine others who were crushed to death by falling trees.
On 8 July 2005 the post office building was gazetted as an Archeological Protected Monument. [9]In June 2017 the United Postal Trade Union went on a three-day strike in order to stop the government's plans to sell the Nuwara Eliya, Kandy and Galle Fort post offices to private developers, in order for the buildings be converted into hotels.
Kadugannawa Pass is a pierced rock in the Kadugannawa climb on the Kandy-Colombo road. In the 1820s when the British built the Kandy-Colombo road they pierced a rock at the Kadugannawa Pass instead of blasting it away or simply bypassing it, as the new road does today. An explanation is, that this Kadugannawa tunnel was a symbol.