Leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga is back in the ODI squad for the upcoming tour of New Zealand, where the teams play three ODIs and three T20Is. The ace spinner missed Sri Lanka’s last ODI assignment – the home series against...
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Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Nalin Bandara yesterday called on the Government to reduce electricity bills to provide relief to consumers and expressed his opposition to increasing the withholding tax (WHT) to 10 percent.
Attending a media briefing at the...
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The draft Local Government (LG) Polls Amendment Act has been forwarded to the Elections Commission by the Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government Ministry.
The Election Commission (EC) stated yesterday (23) that the Cabinet decision to cancel the outdated...
St. Peter’s College OBU UK celebrated their annual Christmas gathering, “Peterite...
Hard-hitting middle-order batter Bevon Jacobs has been handed his maiden New Zealand call-up by being picked for the upcoming three-match home T20I series against Sri Lanka.
Jacobs was part of the New Zealand XI side that took on Sri Lanka...
A suspect has been arrested in New York over the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train in Brooklyn.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the incident on Sunday as “one of the most depraved...
Monday 23rd December, 2024
The much-awaited good news has come at last. On Friday, Fitch Ratings upgraded Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘CCC+’, from ‘RD’ (Restricted Default). Heartening as this positive development is, it by no...
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The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has appointed Hambantota district MP D.V. Chanaka as the new National Convener of the party.
This had been decided at the Politburo/Executive Committee meeting of the SLPP held on Friday in Colombo, under the...
At the launch of a book “Ranil Wickremesinghe and the emasculation of the United National Party” by Rajiva Wijesinha last Wednesday, Dr. Dayan Jayatillake, the keynote speaker quoted a message he had received from Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, a son of...
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Fitch Ratings said it was upgrading Sri Lanka’s foreign currency rating out of restricted default (RD) status, to CCC+ after 98 percent of bondholders accepted an offer to restructure defaulted bonds with new securities issued on December 20.
“The upgrade...