News Collection of Sri Lanka

Telephone Companies

Airtel	- 075-5555555	Lanka Bell	- 5375375	Suntel	- 4747474
Dialog GSM	- 077-7678678	Mobitel	- 0712755777	Tigo	- 0722454154
Hutchison	- 078-8812345	Telecom	- 2555555

Telephone area code Nos.

011 - Colombo	031 - Negombo	038 - Panadura	055 - Badulla
021 - Jaffna	032 - Puttalam	041 - Matara	057 - Bandarawela
023 - Mannar	033 - Gampaha	045 - Ratnapura	063 - Ampara
024 - Vavuniya	034 - Kalutara	047 - Hambantota	065 - Batticaloa
025 - Anuradhapura	035 - Kegalle	051 - Hatton	066 - Matale
026 - Trincomalee	036 - Avissawella	052 - Nuwara Eliya	067 - Kalmunai
027 - Polonnaruwa	037 - Kurunegala	054 - Nawalapitiya	081 - Kandy

Emergency service's telephone numbers

Emergency Service	Telephone Number
Ambulance (Fire) (Colombo)	110
National Help Desk	118
Police	119
Government Help	1919

Accident Service General Hospital	011-2691111
Army Head Quarters	011-2432682 to 5
Bomb Squad Army	011-2434251, 2437515, 2330646
Blood Bank	011-2695728, 2692317, 2674799
Crimes	011-2691500
Emergency Police Mobile Squad	011-5717171
Electricity Break Down	011-2466660, 4617575
Fire & Ambulance	011-2422222
Police Emergency	011-2433333
Police Head Quarters	011-2421111
Poison Information Centre	011-2691111
Red Cross	011-2672727

On This Day...

January 3: Arba'een (Shi'a Islam, 2013)

1833 – With the arrival of two British naval ships at the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom re-asserted sovereignty there.

1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first President of Liberia.

1946 – Canadian-American jockey George Woolf (pictured), who rode Seabiscuit to a famous victory over War Admiral in

1938, was fatally injured when he fell from his horse during a race.

1961 – Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.

1973 – American businessman George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees professional baseball team for US$8.7 million.

1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell mobile phone, was released and went on to become one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption.

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