Former Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has criticised reports that England could play more five-Test series against major nations, while reducing future tours of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to one-off matches.
We should not play one off test with anyone! If any country doesn’t want to play more than one so be it! There’s nothing called bigger nations and test status is equal to all test playing nations .You can’t have 1 team playing 20 games and another playing 10 games in the same championship cycle! Generating revenue and keeping test cricket alive is two different things and you should not mix up the two !
No-confidence motion against Energy Minister Kumara Jayakodi defeated in Parliament.
49 MPs voted in favour, while 153 voted against, with the Government securing majority support.
The NPP government has completely misunderstood or is deliberately misunderstanding mandate given them in 2024. An anti corruption mandate doesn't mean they can be excused for incompetency in managing public finance, such as in losses caused by irregularities in coal procurement.
IMF says Sri Lanka’s staff-level agreement for the next tranche remains subject to Executive Board approval, contingent on restoring cost-recovery pricing for electricity and fuel, while protecting vulnerable groups.
If approved, Sri Lanka would receive about $700 million under the IMF program.
Lebanon has been hit with one of the largest waves of Israeli airstrikes since the escalation began.
Civilians are bearing the brunt of these attacks.
Civilians are #NotATarget.
Public trustee had given #1990 #Suwaseriya a large old colonial type
house on a 65 perch at the heart of Colombo 7 on a long lease. So the command and control centre moved there yesterday from its Rajagiriya offices. @NalindaJay invited me and I attended the ceremonies. That was a nice gesture! Reminded the contributions of everyone, particularly PM @narendramodi PM @RW_SRILANKA in getting this amazing service established under tremendous odds and even more importantly how the board led by @DumindraR with Prof Asitha de Silva, @sandyasalgado and late Vijaya Malalasekera and thereafter @vish_govin with the ex officio members from Treasury, MofHealth and the @SL_PoliceMedia with 1,500 staff led by CEO @kcsdesilva built it to becoming the most loved and most efficient public service in #SriLanka. Now that Pres @anuradisanayake has changed the team (who worked absolutely voluntarily with zero benefits as service to the nation) it is up to them to take it from here. And there is a long way to go. Good news however is the 50 brand new ambulances we negotiated with Natarajan Chandrasekeran Chairman @TataCompanies and subsequently the additional gift of another 100 by #India through @IndiainSL will arrive soon taking the fleet close to 500 which will help response time drop below 10min. I wish them the best! Here is my short speech if interested.
More on the Kapila Chandrasena drama. I think personally that he (and his wife) were played. But if he does not talk he'll go to jail. If he does not, he will not die an unnatural death.
"Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Thusith Mudalige yesterday revealed that the Singapore bank account belonging to former SriLankan Airlines CEO Kapila Chandrasena’s wife had a record of sending USD 800,000 to an individual by the name of Nimal Hemasiri Perera in November 2014, after the alleged USD 2 million commission was received from the French AIRBUS Company in connection with the 14 Airbuses purchase in 2013."
https://t.co/tBIGrUDY5e
“Nato was created as a defensive alliance and all of its articles are essentially oriented towards defence.
“It was not an alliance that was designed for one of the allies to go on a war of choice and then oblige everyone else to follow. It was not designed for that at all. I’m not sure that’s the sort of Nato that any of us wanted to belong to.”
New CNN Investigation👇
Forensic analysis of videos and satellite imagery shows how US-Israeli strikes have damaged Iranian hospitals, schools and gyms near targets.
From CNN's @katie_polglase and the investigations team.
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
https://t.co/Dqo309M8lW
A newly released video suggests a US Tomahawk missile likely struck an Iranian elementary girls’ school in Minab, killing 175 people, most of them children. The US had previously accused Iran of the attack.