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Sri Lanka v Bangladesh head-to-head record
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 20, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka v Bangladesh head-to-head record ahead of their World Cup Group B match at Queen’s Park Oval here on Wednesday: 07/10/2006 Mohali – Sri Lanka won by 37 runs Total meetings: 18 Sri Lanka wins: 17 Bangladesh wins: 1 Tied: 0 No Result: 0 Last […]
Bangladeshi teenagers eye scalp of Sri Lankan veterans
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 20, 2007 (AFP) – Giant-killers Bangladesh are counting on their teenagers to deliver yet again when they clash with experienced Sri Lanka in their second World Cup match here on Wednesday. Teenagers Tamim Iqbal, Saqibul Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim played key roles in Bangladesh’s shock five-wicket victory over 1983 champions […]
Windies beat Zim to join Australia in Super Eight
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 19, 2007 (AFP) – West Indies joined defending champions Australia in the World Cup Super Eights on Monday while India clinched a record-breaking win over Bermuda to put their campaign back on track. “It’s something which shouldn’t have happened and I’ve suffered the consequences. I’m obviously upset about it and it’s something […]
India set twin records in Bermuda thrashing
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 19, 2007 (AFP) – Virender Sehwag roared back into form with a blazing century as record-setting India thrashed debutants Bermuda by 257 runs in their second World Cup match here on Monday. India posted the highest Cup total of 413-5 after being put in to bat, with Sehwag (114), Sourav […]
World Food Program asks access to fleeing refugees
GENEVA, March 20, 2007 (AFP) – Some 95,000 people have fled fierce fighting in Sri Lanka’s eastern Batticaloa district in the past week, the UN food relief agency said Tuesday.World Food Programme spokesman Simon Pluess said the fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels in the area had triggered a “dramatically increased number of […]
Sri Lanka says destroyed Tiger boats
COLOMBO, March 20, 2007 (AFP) – Government troops destroyed four boats believed to be carrying Tamil Tiger guerrillas in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said Tuesday, as one civilian was shot dead in other violence.Troops attacked four suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) boats off the Jaffna peninsula around midnight Monday, the ministry […]
Port Dollars
March 20, 2007 (LBO) – The Asian Development Bank has approved a 300 million dollar loan to expand the Colombo Port, the regional lender said Tuesday. The funds will come from its ‘ordinary capital resources’ window at a rate based on the London Interbank offered rate, the bank said. The loan will have a 25-year […]
Rating Rap
March 19, (LBO) – A lease-backed securities issue of Senkadagala Finance had its A (lka) national rating affirmed Monday, but Fitch Ratings said minimum credit enhancement levels have been breached at several points. Monthly prepayments have hovered between 0 and 3.6 percent of the outstanding pool principal, while a 15.9 percent of the initial pool […]
Aspiration Gap
March 19, 2007 (LBO) – Lining up for ˜good™ jobs coupled with limited access to quality education and training have upped levels of unemployment among Sri Lanka™s youth, a new World Bank study shows. The study shows that youth with GCE Ordinary Level and GCE Advanced Level education are the most unemployed, compared to other […]
Triple Play
March 19 (LBO) – Gloom over the spectacular telecom busts in the last decade has given way to a new round of optimism worldwide and the new mantra for the telecom industry is convergence. That optimism is driving change in Sri Lanka’s largest fixed line telecom firm, Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). However a network overhaul […]