Airliner Crash Scene - Cyprus
Rescue workers searching the wreckage of the chartered Britannia airliner which crashed on a hill outside Nicosia recently. The airliner, owned by the Swiss charter company, Globe Air, crashed in a rain and hail storm after being struck by lightni...
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Plane Crashed in Munich
An inferno of flames swept the main street of Munich recently, when a Convair transport aircraft of the United States Air Force crashed onto a tramcar filled with Christmas shoppers. Thirty people were killed. The aircraft was carrying 13 American...
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Deepa charika pricegiven
To start the Deepa Charika cycle race, the National Security Minister T.B. Werapitiye hoists the national flag. The chief chairperson of the Deepa Charika competition committee, the chief author of the Sinhala division of the Times Institute Elmo ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Cycle Race
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Ragama Children Activists Committee and the international children's day, the track and field event organized by 'Lankadeepa' included a slow cycling race. The winners Sarath Silva (middle), Nalin Mendis ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Cycle Circus
BALANCE! or he falls, possibly, perilously. This man earns wages of fear, thrilling crowds with acrobatic stunts on a bicycle. He does this regularly at Peliyagoda and at times traffic is held up along the Negombo road; but no one has protested, f...
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Deepa charika pricegiven
Among the three siblings who entered the "Deepa Charika" race, the two brothers Shantha Lal De Silva and Prithee Prabhath De Silva. Their sister who joined the race was Sandhya Mali De Silva. (Picture - T. C. Perera)
The Times of Ceylon Press
Girls on bikes
The bicycle has always been a popular mode of transport in the Jaffna Peninsula and now girls in Jaffna too have adopted this way of travelling. (Pic by Harry Dickumbura)
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Maurice Coomaravel
Maurice Coomaravel in the lead during the 'Lankadipa' cycle race held on Monday
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