India pacer Mohammed Siraj dedicated the prize money after winning the Player of the Match award in the Asia Cup final to the ground staff of R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. “I think they deserve a lot of credit. The tournament would not have gone ahead without their work,” said Siraj at the post-match presentation….
Mohammed Siraj’s 6-wicket mayhem crushes Sri Lanka, India bring home 8th Asia Cup
September 19, 2023Mohammed Siraj bowled a terrific six-wicket spell helping India eventually outplay Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final of Asia Cup 2023 at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday. India registered a record-extending 8th Asia Cup title. With the help of Siraj’s 6 for 21 in 7 overs, the Rohit Sharma-led side bundled…
Former UoM faculty rules out Sri Lanka-like situation in India
August 13, 2022KSOU distributes National Flags Mysore/Mysuru: Dismissing claims of some that India would have to face a Sri Lanka-like situation in the near future as unfounded, former University of Mysore (UoM) faculty Prof. K.C. Basavaraj said that India is very much on the path of progress with a good rate of GDP growth. He was speaking…
Learn from the decline of Sri Lanka
April 5, 2022By T.J.S. George What a tragedy Sri Lanka has become. All school examinations have been cancelled because there is no paper. There is no paper because there is no money to import it. There is no fuel for cooking. A thousand bakeries are closed. Many power plants have shut down leading to extensive power cuts….
ICC 2019 World Cup Cricket: Pakistan-Sri Lanka match abandoned due to rain
June 8, 2019The Pakistan-Sri Lanka ICC 2019 World Cup match at Bristol was called off without a ball being bowled due to persistent rain on Friday. The match was called off at 8.15 pm (IST) as no play was possible in the time left after the rain stopped. This is the first time Sri Lanka have gained…
Echo of Easter bloodshed :Face coverings banned in Sri Lanka
April 29, 2019Colombo: Sri Lanka has banned face coverings in public, following a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds. President Maithruipala Sisirsena said he was using an emergency law to impose the restriction from today, reported BBC and CNN. Any face garment which “hinders identification” will be…
14 Mysureans on Sri Lankan tour return home safely
April 25, 2019Tour organiser H.N. Umesha shares his experience with SoM Mysuru: Fourteen members of a family of five Geologists who were on a tour of Sri Lanka and escaped the deadly bomb attack on Apr.21, returned safely to the city last night. It was a providential escape for them as they suddenly took a decision to…
Echo of bomb blasts in Colombo, Sri Lanka: Red alert in Mysuru, KRS
April 24, 2019United Christian Forum holds prayer service at St. Joseph’s Cathedral Bodies of four JD(S) leaders arrive at Bengaluru Mortal remains of three others expected to arrive this evening Death toll reaches 360 Mysuru/Mandya: A red alert has been sounded across Mysuru and Mandya districts, frequented by thousands of tourists including foreigners, after the serial bomb…
Bomb blasts in Sri Lanka: Bodies of four JD(S) leaders arrive at Bengaluru
April 24, 2019Bengaluru: Even as the death toll in Easter Sunday serial bomb blasts in Colombo, Sri Lanka, touched 360, the bodies of four JD(S) leaders from Nelamangala, who were killed in the blasts, arrived in Bengaluru late last night. The bodies of H. Shivukumar, K.G. Hanumantharayappa, K.M. Lakshminarayana and M. Rangappa, which arrived at KIAL, Bengaluru…
14 tourists from Mysuru safe in Sri Lanka
April 23, 2019Group to return to city tomorrow Mysuru: A 14-member tourist group, out of whom five are Geologists, all from the city, who were on a six-day tour of Sri Lanka, are safe. The five Geologists M.V. Ravishankar (BJP leader), K.V. Vedamurthy, Channabasappa Basavaraju, Vinay Ranganatha Hebbar and H.N. Umesha and their family members H.A. Shyla,…
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