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Adelaide: Alex Hales gave a perfect start and Ben Stokes played a top knock in the end to help England survive the Sri Lanka scare in the death overs and win the match by four wickets to reach the semifinal of ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2022. With this win, England has finished the group […]
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Sydney: Glenn Phillips rode his luck to smash a special hundred as New Zealand put their poor start behind to register a crucial 65-run win over Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup, here on Saturday. New Zealand found themselves tottering at 15 for three inside the powerplay before Phillips (104 off 64) shared an […]
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Now is not the time to push orthodox fiscal requirements. Instead, the IMF should prioritise global liquidity during these difficult economic conditions.
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The great history of spectacular upsets in T20 cricket had another chapter added as Namibia secured a 55-run win over Sri Lanka
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India clinch their seventh Women's Asia Cup title, outplaying Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the title clash at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium
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Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said his government will back the bids of India and Japan for permanent member status at the UN Security Council. President Wickremesinghe is currently in Japan to attend the state funeral of the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. During a meeting with Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa […]
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday lambasted the opposition and its friendly media for showing the state's financial management in poor light.
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Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 23 runs in the Asia Cup final here on Sunday.Sri Lanka posted 170 for six after being put in to bat.
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Sri Lanka beat India by six wickets in their Asia Cup Super 4 match here on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka chased down a target of 174
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By Amitava Mukherjee Hasina Wazed, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, is scheduled to come to India at a time when her country is exercising a ‘politics of balance’ in order to steer clear of an impression that Dhaka is willingly embracing a Chinese dragnet. Her country is running short of money and in order to […]
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Hyderabad: Given its hegemonic actions and blatant breach of international protocols in the recent past, China’s move to dock its spy ship in Sri Lanka must be viewed with suspicion. India’s concerns in this regard are quite justified as the ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is a powerful tracking vessel whose significant aerial reach — reportedly around […]
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Colombo: Sri Lanka has granted provisional approval to Adani Green Energy for two wind projects of 286 MW and 234 MW for an investment of over USD 500 million in the country’s Northern province, Energy and Power Minister Kanchana Wijesekara announced on Wednesday. Wijesekara said in a tweet that he met officials of the state-owned […]
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Colombo: A high-tech Chinese research ship docked at Sri Lanka’s southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday, days after Colombo asked Beijing to defer the port call amidst India’s concern over the vessel’s presence in its neighbourhood. Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ arrived in the southern port of Hambantota at 8.20 […]
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By Arun Sinha When Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for an end to the ‘revadi culture’ on July 17, he might not have expected that two weeks later a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, hearing a petition seeking curbs on the distribution of ‘freebies’ by political parties, would decide to set […]
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Colombo: Over 5.5 million vehicles have been registered with Sri Lanka’s national fuel pass or QR code system, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said on Monday. A total of 1,246 gas stations in the country now follow the QR code system and 4.3 million transactions have been completed, Xinhua news agency quoted Wijesekera […]
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Birmingham: Indian shuttlers dished out another splendid show to take an unassailable 3-0 lead over a hapless Sri Lanka in their second group A match of the mixed team competition at the 22nd Commonwealth Games here on Saturday. A day after blanking Pakistan 5-0, India notched up another convincing win to go to the top […]
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Colombo: Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday congratulated India’s new President Droupadi Murmu, recalling the close ties between the two nations and underlining that her leadership offers “fresh impetus” to the joint endeavours to nurture and strengthen the cordial ties it enjoys. Murmu, 64, took over as India’s 15th president on Monday, the […]
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Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Presidential Secretariat, which was stormed by a sea of anti-government protesters in early July, is set to return to functioning from Monday under a tight security cover, according to a media report. Cleaning and repair work was underway to ready the Presidential Secretariat over the weekend as security forces opened Galle Road […]
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Newly elected Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has an unenviable task on hand as the island nation is gripped by an unprecedented economic crisis and social unrest. The immediate challenge is that Wickremesinghe himself is largely seen as part of the problematic political establishment led by the discredited Rajapaksa family. The tiny nation of 22 […]
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Colombo: Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the eighth President of Sri Lanka at the Parliament premises on Thursday. He was sworn in before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Daily Mirror reported. In the election held in Parliament on Wednesday, 73-year-old Wickremesinghe secured 134 votes from parliamentarians. Out of 225 parliamentarians, 223 voted in the ballot of […]
