Divi Neguma Community Bank has doubled the loan amounts payable and now an individual could obtain up to a maximum of one million rupees.  The bank will provide loans for group activities, marketing purposes, construction of stores, purchase of mobile sales outlet vehicles, community development programmes as well as for construction of houses.  

Novak Djokovic claimed a second Wimbledon title after coming out on top in an extraordinary battle of wills against seven-times winner Roger Federer, eventually triumphing 6-7(7) 6-4 7-6(4) 5-7 6-4 in a gripping encounter on Sunday.

Taliban insurgents set fire on Saturday to about 200 oil tanker trucks supplying fuel for NATO forces in an attack just outside the Afghan capital Kabul, police said.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Ruwanweli Maha Seya, one of the greatest historical Buddhist Monuments in Anuradhapura, Friday.