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To Avoid Clash With India, Sri Lanka Drops Imran Khan's Parliament Speech Colombo: Sri Lanka has cancelled a planned speech in Parliament by Prime Minister Imran Khan in an attempt to prevent conflict with India. According to a report titled ‘Sri Lanka avoids clash with India by cancelling Khan’s ...

Colombo , February 22 (ANI): In an effort to avoid confrontation with India, Sri Lanka has cancelled a scheduled speech of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Parliament. According to a report titled 'Sri Lanka avoids clash with India by cancelling Khan's Parliament speech' by Dar Javed published in ...

Colombo/Islamabad:  Sri Lanka has cancelled Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s planned address to its Parliament during his upcoming visit to Colombo, according to media reports. Sergeant-at-Arms of Parliament, Narendra Fernando said he has informed Parliament that the Pakistan Prime Minister’s visit to Sri Lanka will go ahead as scheduled, ...

Fishermen have appealed to the Central government to immediately hold talks with the Sri Lankan authorities and help lift the ban imposed on dry fish exports from India to the island nation as nearly 15,000 metric tons of dry fish valued at ₹500 crore was lying in warehouses since ...

ANKARA Sri Lanka will allow the burial of COVID-19 victims, the country’s premier said on Wednesday, following months of outcry over a ban.In response to a question raised by lawmaker S M Marikkar, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said in parliament the bodies of virus victims will be allowed to ...

Beijing’s Shadow on Indo-Japanese Project in Sri Lanka In May 2019, India, Japan and Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) to jointly develop the East Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port. The joint initiative was estimated to cost between $500 million and $700 million. The MOC ...

Galle Gladiators captain Shahid Afridi will miss at least the first two matches of his team's Lanka Premier League (LPL) campaign, after missing his flight to Sri Lanka on Monday.Afridi tweeted about missing his flight, which had been set for morning, and went on to say that he will ...

ICC, Chief Match Referee, Ranjan Madugalle and ICC, Elite Panel Umpire, Kumar Dharmasena will feature in a highly recognised Match Referee Panel and an Umpiring Panel to officiate in the Lanka Premier League (LPL)."Madugalle, a member of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees have refereed in ...

China has hosted a high-level virtual meeting with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to build up “political consensus” in containing the Covid-19 pandemic and boosting economic development.The “five-parties” meeting, termed so by the Chinese foreign ministry in a late-night statement on Thursday, was an expansion of a similar ...

MUMBAI: Bollywood star Salman Khan's family has bought the Kandy Tuskers franchise in the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL), a tournament that saw its player draft conducted over the last two days and one that is slated to begin on November 21. Salman Khan's younger brother Sohail and father, ...