Fans around the world are invited to ‘Live the Game’ with today’s global premiere of the official anthem and promo film for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021. The 16-team tournament is the biggest sports event ever in the UAE and Oman and takes place between 17 October and 14 November. Hub – ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 ...
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) via a media release announced the commencement of the ‘Overseas Player Registration Process’ for the second edition of Lanka Premier League which will be held from 04th to 23rd December 2021. Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to announce the commencement of the ‘Overseas Player Registration Process’ for the 2nd Edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) starting ...
14th March 2020 – the last day where we witnessed schools rugby in the country. Since then, we’ve had three more severe outbreaks of the covid-19 in the country, schools closed indefinitely, and sports halted. But, with the vaccination drive coming up for children aged 12-18, will we see schools rugby back in 2021? The Dialog Schools Rugby League of ...
Truro, St. Ives and Christmas in London The chef and the chief waiter at the restaurant where I found work in Truro were Spanish rather than French, lovely people who pampered me as did the older ladies who worked there, allowing me as much Cornish ice cream as I wanted. And my landlady kept feeding me though I had not ...
The urgency of getting children back to school at the first opportunity is accepted worldwide, but Covid-19 has also brought three other issues to the fore internationally – (1) Ethics of conducting competitive examinations when significant portions of the students have been left out of education (2) Wisdom of continuing same old education when a full return to normalcy is ...
Photo courtesy of SBS Currently as the UN General Assembly (UNGA) sessions proceed in New York, the real action is at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, where the conduct of the Sri Lankan government is on the agenda and under close examination for its international commitments and obligations under the terms of UNHRC Resolution 46/1 adopted by ...
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is planning to commence the 2021/2022 domestic season, from the 20th of October, ThePapare learns. In an email sent recently to all the participating clubs in the Major League tournament, SLC has set 20th of October as the proposed starting date of the tournament, with the expectation of the current quarantine curfew rules to be relaxed ...
Former Sri Lankan Captain Angelo Mathews was seen training individually in his hometown in Wattala, through videos posted on his official social media platforms. Mathews, who last played for Sri Lanka in May against Bangladesh at Pallekelle, informed Sri Lanka Cricket in July that he’s considering retirement in the wake of selectors taking a hard stance on the senior players. ...
Photo courtesy of Kumanan Kanapathippillai When a government contravenes the rule of law, crushes human rights, reneges on its responsibility of protecting its own citizens and begins attacking them instead, the international community will step in. It is a simple and clear concept – any nation has to adhere to good governance principles if it wishes to remain a member ...
Mcc has today announced amendments to the laws of cricket to use the gender-neutral terms “batter” and “batters”, rather than “batsman” or “batsmen”. These changes have been approved by the MCC Committee, following initial discussion by the Club’s specialist Laws sub-committee. Read More : England’s men’s and women’s team withdrawn from Pakistan white-ball tour MCC believes that the use of gender-neutral ...
A global rise in the cases of domestic violence (DV) has been observed during the COVID-19 pandemic and sustained periods of lockdown owing to the pandemic. Several factors including tension created by prolonged seclusion, socio-economic instability and hardship have led to an increase in DV. Locally, this dangerous trend has been exacerbated by the opening of bars and taverns after ...
Kettering and to Cornwall In the very last week of my first term at Univ, a fellow freshman who had been very friendly asked me home. As I put it in my letter from his house, in Kettering in Northamptonshire, ‘He had mentioned it earlier but – after Tissa Wijeratne and his remarks about the terrible expense of putting people ...
Producer Andun, known for his previous Lo Fi efforts is back with another album of the genre goodness. Titled ‘Lo Fi City’, this one got released a few days ago. Source
