Dilrook Kannangara Facts are stranger than fiction! Can Sri Lankans handle the truth? Team Sri Lanka won the ICC Cricket World Cup Final in 1996, were Finalists in 2007 and 2011 and Semi-Finalists in 2003. A careful look at the scorecards of all the above Final and one Semi-Final (2003) matches reveals that Murali and […]

Chanaka Bandarage, International Lawyer There is much debate in the country about our cricket. There is no doubt that the Cricket Board and the Selection Committee should bear major responsibility for the debacle. But, what about the recent and current Cricketers? The writer states they too must bear responsibility. It is the players who play […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D  (784) නීතීඥ වටගල හා ලාල්කාන්තගේ පුතාලා ගැන සමන් කියූ කතාව-සෞඛ්‍ය\ගුරු ප්‍රශ්න දකින විදිහ – YouTube හෘද ශාක්ෂිය හා අධ්‍යාත්මය අතර වෙනසක් තිබේද? අනුර කුමාර මහතා විසින් නොබෝදා කල <JVP එක විසින් ජාතික ජන බලවේගයට (NPP) <අධ්‍යාත්මය>  සපයනවා [පිඹිනවා],> යන  ගාම්භීර ප්‍රකාශය නිසා මෙම කෙටි සටහනට මා විසින් කලින් යොදාගන්නට සිතූ, <JVP […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ  චීන ජනාධිපති ෂී ජින් පිං මහතාගේ විශේෂ නියෝජිත, රාජ්‍ය මන්ත්‍රී ෂෙන් යිකින් (Shen Yiqin) මහත්මිය අතර හමුවක් අද (2023.11.20) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙත චීනය ලබා දෙන අඛණ්ඩ සහයෝගය ඉතා ඉහළින් අගය කරන බවත්, චීනය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර ආර්ථික සහයෝගීතාව තවදුරටත් පුළුල් කර ගැනීමේ […]

Courtesy PIME Asia News On the occasion of the World Day celebrated by the UN on 19 November in Sri Lanka, the Public Health Inspectors Association released some data on the scarcity of these essential facilities for the protection of people’s health and dignity. Colombo (AsiaNews) – Yesterday, 19 November, marked the “World Toilet Day” […]

Source: Xinhua COLOMBO, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe met here on Monday with visiting Chinese State Councilor Shen Yiqin, with both sides pledging to deepen cooperation and friendship between the two countries. Wickremesinghe thanked China for its long-term valuable support and assistance to Sri Lanka, saying that Sri Lanka firmly supports […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) will initiate a probe into incidents in which stocks of coal imported for the Norochcholai thermal power plant have been under-invoiced for the evasion of due amount of Value Added Tax (VAT), an official said. COPA Chairman Lasantha Alagiyawanna told Daily […]

BY MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu Businessline Special envoy of the Chinese President Shen Yiqin with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo on Monday. China is prioritising” the extension of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) to Sri Lanka, the country’s Special Envoy told President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday, in an indication that China is looking to scale […]

Courtesy The Island Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to remove parliamentary committee chairmen who had conflicts of interest. Premadasa demanded to know from the Speaker what moral right a person had to chair a committee investigating Sri Lanka Cricket after providing consultancy services and getting paid for those services […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Parliamentary Business has agreement to appoint a Special Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the irregularities in Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC), under a co-chairmanship of the ruling parties and the opposition. This was decided on during the meeting of the Committee on Parliamentary Business this evening (20) chaired by Speaker Mahinda […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Colombo, November 20, 2023 – The ongoing crisis within Sri Lanka Cricket took center stage in Parliament today as Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe tabled three letters sent by Cricket President Shammi Silva to the International Cricket Council (ICC). These letters, requesting the suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership, have sparked a public […]