Sri Lanka have announced a 16-member squad for the first two ODIs against Afghanistan. Matheesha Pathirana has received a call for the 50-over format.
Raheem, a member of the Muslim minority party, All Ceylon Makkal Congress, was elected to Parliament in August 2020.
Surprisingly, debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel.
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According to the officials, the arrested fishermen were taken by the Lankan Naval personnel to hand them over to authorities in their country.
Sri Lanka Foreign Minister further said that India took bold decisions to help them and provided about 3.9 billion worth of bilateral credit and accreditation.
The High Commission of India in Colombo organised a discussion on the use of the Indian Rupee (INR) for transactions between India and Sri Lanka on Thursday.
The IMF facility would enable the island nation to obtain bridging finance from markets and other lending institutions such as the ADB and the World Bank.
Adani Group has received approval to set up two renewable energy projects in Sri Lanka with a combined investment of $442 million.
The statement from the island nation came after Pazha Nedumaran, a noted nationalist leader in Tamil Nadu, claimed that the top leader of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) "is doing well".
Prabakaran, LTTE leader, was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government troops on May 18, 2009 in Mullaivaikkal in the northern Mullaithivu district.
Interestingly, the country is celebrating its 75th Independence Day on February 4, amid a series of allegations of spending over 300 million Sri Lankan rupees at a time when the country is already seeking assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Wickremesinghe, who also holds the finance ministry portfolio, said that in 2022 overall economic growth was larger than expected at - 8 per cent and in 2023 the growth rate could hover somewhere around - 3.5 per cent to - 4 per cent.
Jaishankar, who is in the island nation on a two-day visit, called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday morning and also held talks with Foreign Minister Ali Sabry.
Although the strength had been halved from around 400,000 since the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in 2009, the current strength of 200,000 was termed excessive.
In a historic judgement, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held the then leadership guilty of negligence that caused the deadliest attacks on hotels and churches which claimed 270 lives.
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The NIA official said all nine arrests were made from the Trichy special camp housing Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.
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