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SLC snubs past cricketers living overseas in new payment plan

The Sri Lanka Cricket board has decided to disregard former Sri Lankan cricketers living overseas in a new payment plan. Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement that the cricket board, under the guidance of Minister of Sports Faiszer Musthapa has decided to felicitate 49 past cricketers, who represented Sri Lanka, prior to obtaining full membership of the ICC, as a move to honor them for the services rendered to Sri Lanka Cricket. Accordingly, SLC will offer grant ex-gratia payments for 12 crick

04 Sep, 2018

Faiszer insists nephew facing allegations in Australia is innocent

By Avani Dias The family of a New South Wales student accused of planning to assassinate senior Australian politicians say the alleged Islamic State affiliate is “just like any other boy”. Mohamed Nizamdeen, 25, was studying and working at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and was arrested after a colleague found a notebook allegedly containing details of plans to kill Malcolm Turnbull and his former deputy Julie Bishop. Nizamdeen’s uncle Faiszer Musthapha, the Sri Lankan Sports and Lo

04 Sep, 2018

Sri Lanka probes multiple deaths of wild elephants

Sri Lankan authorities on Monday began investigating the deaths of wild elephants in the east of the island after pulling seven carcasses out of a marsh, a minister said. Wildlife Minister Palitha Thewarapperuma said six out of the seven animals found in the swamp were young?below the age of 12?and he suspected that many more may have died there, the AFP news agency reported. “We have wildlife experts and vets who are investigating the cause,” Thewarapperuma told AFP from the district of Polon

03 Sep, 2018