News Room : Sri Lanka rue dropped catch – The Island
Mosaddek Hossain held his nerve, twice in the space of one legal delivery in a chaotic finish, for Bangladesh to earn a three-run win against Zimbabwe, whose semi-final hopes have now been dented.Zimbabwe needed 16 from the final over, and after Mosaddek got rid of Brad Evans, Richard Ngarava got a leg-bye four and slammed a huge six over fine-leg to give...
News Room : three Lankans arrested – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed (Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
News Room : India developing world’s most advanced affordable Artificial Heart – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed (Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
News Room : Child injured in accidental discharge of police firearm: SI remanded
By Norman Palihawadane Thihagoda Police Sub-Inspector, arrested in connection with an accidental discharge of a police firearm, and causing injury to a 15-year-old boy, in Thihagoda, Matara, has been remanded until 02 Nov. Matara Chief Magistrate, Isuru Nethikumara, ordered the suspected sub-inspector to be remanded when the latter was produced before him on Saturday afternoon. The 57-year-old Sub Inspector admitted in...
News Room : PSC a ruse to postpone polls – Sumanthiran
TNA Jaffna District MP M. A. Sumanthiran says the proposal calling for the appointment of a select committee on amending the electoral system is another attempt to delay elections.The TNA MP said that the Minister of Justice had written to the Speaker, requesting the appointment of yet another Parliamentary Select Committee, although a previous Parliamentary Select Committee had submitted...
News Room : COPF asks govt. why it shared IMF pact with other committees – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed (Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
News Room : Academics rise to challenge with sustainable solutions – The Island
Sri Lanka’s worst post-war economic crisis represents a major blow to the country’s progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), efforts that were already hobbled by the COVID pandemic. However, the situation is also providing impetus to the work of academics that are using their knowledge to tackle the immediate fallout from the crisis, in addition...
News Room : One Sri Lankan youth confirmed dead in Korean Halloween stampede
A 27-year-old Sri Lankan is confirmed to have died in the Halloween event stampede in South Korea. The victim is a resident of Kandy and had been living in South Korea under a G-1 visa. At least 19 foreigners were confirmed killed including US citizens. A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as...
News Room : GMOA opposes Government’s new Tax reforms
The Government Medical Officers Association says the new tax reforms will lead to professionals leaving the country. The association said, doctors and other professionals have already started migrating due to the ongoing economic and social crisis, and the new tax reforms will only lead to its increase. The GMOA says the new taxes will impact the country long-term. Rs. 100...
News Room : Crowd crush killed 151 at Halloween festivities
South Korea’s first big Halloween celebration since the end of Covid restrictions turned to tragedy on Saturday night, when at least 151 people, mostly teenagers and young adults, died as partygoers surged through a narrow alley in a popular nightlife district in Seoul, officials said. Authorities are still investigating what caused the incident, but Choi Seong-bum, chief of the Yongsan-gu...