If Team India win the third and final ODI vs New Zealand on Tuesday in Indore, they will record back to back ODI series clean sweeps at home. India had blanked Sri Lanka before the ongoing series against the Black Caps.Winning home bilateral ODI series has become more than just a habit for the Men … Read more
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the T20I series against Sri Lanka, the Indian cricket team, including coach Rahul Dravid and captain Hardik Pandya, wished a speedy recovery to Rishabh Pant who had a near-fatal car accident last week.Dravid wished Pant a speedy recovery, recalling how he has played some of the best innings in Indian Test … Read more
COLOMBO: Bankrupt Sri Lanka agreed a conditional $2.9 billion bailout with International Monetary Fund negotiators on Thursday, as the island nation seeks to overcome a bruising economic crisis that saw its president flee the country. Months of acute food, fuel and medicine shortages, extended blackouts and runaway inflation have plagued the country after it ran … Read more
NEW DELHI: While lauding India’s economic assistance to Sri Lanka, visiting US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power cited China’s “opaque” loan deals with the island nation at very high rates of interest as one of the reasons for the country’s current financial predicament. Power also called upon all countries including India to … Read more
COLOMBO: Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday said he is ready to make “any sacrifice” for the people amidst reports that the Sri Lankan Prime Minister may offer to stand down, as pressure mounts on the embattled government led by his younger brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to form an interim administration to overcome the worst economic … Read more
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday declared a state of emergency from midnight amid nationwide protests over a massive economic crisis that has crippled the island nation. A spokesman for the president said he invoked the tough laws to “ensure public order” after trade unions staged a nationwide strike Friday demanding his … Read more
DUBAI: India under new captain Rohit Sharma finished the 2021-22 season as the world’s number one ranked T20 team after a string of impressive performances at home but were a good nine points behind Australia in the annual Test rankings released by ICC on Wednesday. The ‘Black Caps’ from New Zealand finished the last season … Read more
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president on Friday agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political crisis caused by the country’s worst economic crisis. “President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed that a national council will be appointed to name a new prime minister and Cabinet comprised of all parties … Read more
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said India remains concerned about the risks to global recovery due to rising uncertainty amidst enhanced geopolitical tensions. In her meeting with World Bank President David Malpass, Sitharaman suggested that multilateralism has become more critical as the world is undergoing a phase of exceptional uncertainty. She said that … Read more
COLOMBO: In an “unstinted and multi-faceted support” to Sri Lanka which is grappling with its worst-ever economic crisis, India has extended the duration of the $400 million currency swap facility which had been concluded with the island nation in January. This was the first extension of an international debt instrument to Sri Lanka after the … Read more