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ICC announces hosts of U19 global events until 2027
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
The ICC U19 Men's Cricket World Cup 2024 will be hosted by Sri Lanka whilst the 2026 edition will be staged in Zimbabwe and Namibia. The ICC U19 Women's T20 World Cup 2025 will be held in Malaysia and Thailand, and the 2027 U19 Women's event will be jointly hosted by Bangladesh and Nepal as
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Lanka envoy meets Doval, discuss bilateral ties
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India, Milind Moragoda on Saturday met with the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and reviewed relations between India and Sri Lanka. Since the beginning of the year, India has extended aid worth USD 3.8 billion, including lines of credit, a currency swap
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"Does PM Modi support accused": Congress MP Manickam Tagore on SC decision
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Congress MP from Tamil Nadu Manickam Tagore took a swipe at the Modi government on the issue and questioned if Prime Minister Narendra Modi supported the three Sri Lankans' crime after the six accused were released from jail today.
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South Africa to host India, West Indies for triangular series ahead of wom
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
South Africa are in Group A of the World Cup, along with tournament favourites Australia, Bangladesh, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka. Group B includes India, Pakistan, England, Ireland, and West Indies.
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UN mission warns of worsening food crisis in Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Since June, the HNP has been responding to the Government's request for UN-backed multi-sector support for Sri Lanka's debt and food and medicine shortages. "Governments and donor agencies have helped the humanitarian community reach over 1 million of the country's most vulnerable people wit
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SLC paying for legal defence of sexual-assault accused Danushka Gunathilak
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
SLC is not obliged contractually to assist the player's defence but it is doing so voluntarily. CEO Ashley De Silva insists that it will recover all the legal costs from the accused, either by asking Gunathilaka to pay the money to the board or by docking the payment that SLC owes him
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SLC appoints 3-member panel to probe Danushka Gunathilaka case
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Gunathilaka's arrest was made from the team hotel in Sydney's central business district in connection with an alleged sexual abuse complaint of a 29-year-old woman.
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Protest in Rameswaram, demands release of fishermen in Sri Lankan custody
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Fishermen protested in Thangachimadam village, Rameswaram on Tuesday and demanded the immediate release of fishermen and boats caught in Sri Lanka.
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TN: CM Stalin writes to Centre for release of 15 Tamil fishermen arrested
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Sri Lanka Navy conducted a special operation in seas north of Talaimannar to chase away Indian poaching trawlers from Sri Lanka's waters. The operation led to the seizure of 02 Indian trawlers with 15 Indian fishermen, poaching in the island's waters.
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Migration can boost South Asia's recovery, support long-term development:
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Coping with Shocks: Migration and the Road to Resilience is the subject of a two-day conference that opens today, organized by the Institute for Integrated Development Studies and the World Bank.
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Pakistani Minorities continue to live under clouds of fear, persecution: R
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Several members of minorities including a Sri Lankan national have been killed and attacked in various cities and towns of Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for allegedly committing blasphemy, which in this country is commonly used to settle personal scores relating to business, financi
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Sri Lanka Cricket suspends Danushka Gunathilaka from all forms of cricket
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Sri Lanka Cricket has emphasised its "zero tolerance" stance for any such behaviour and promised to take the appropriate actions to undertake an investigation into the alleged infraction as soon as possible.
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