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Colombo: Sri Lankan spin sensation Wanindu Hasaranga on Monday became just the second Sri Lankan after Lasith Malinga to take 100 T20I wickets, achieving the feat during the second match of the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan.…
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Colombo: Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe informed the Parliament on Tuesday that much awaited debt re-structuring talks with India and China have been successful. "I can tell this assembly that the talks are successful," he said…
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Colombo: Amid pressure from its immediate neighbour India, Sri Lanka has urged China to delay the entry of controversial Chinese ship 'Yuan Wang 5' into the Chinese controlled port in Southern Hambantota. In a letter to the Chinese…
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Colombo: Sri Lanka on Monday reopened public and private schools, which were closed for nearly a month due to fuel shortages in the wake of the ongoing economic crisis. However, schools will be open only three days a week on Monday,…
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New York: As Sri Lanka crisis deepened, UN Chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday said it is important to address root causes of the conflict and protesters' grievances. Taking to twitter, the UN chief said, "I continue to follow the…
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Colombo:  Veteran Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga is calling it quits on Friday. He will be laying his last ODI against Bangladesh in the first game of the three-match ODI series. Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne wished the…
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Colombo: Muslim women in Sri Lanka will not be allowed to wear any form of face veils in public from Monday under new regulations announced by President Maithripala Sirisena who used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday…
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Colombo: United National Party’s (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka today morning. This brought an end to a 51-day power struggle that crippled the island country into a constitutional…
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Colombo: Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned from the premiere post of Sri Lankan Prime Minister. He resigned today morning, reported local news agencies. This ended the two-month power struggle in the island country. Ranil Wickremesinghe is…
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Colombo: Adding to island country’s woes is an alleged plot to kill Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. Sri Lanka has a long history of political assassination in decades of civil war, making Sirisen’s accusations sound truer than…
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