, ” said Piyal Perera, Sunil’s brother and bandmate.Mr.... Perera had been recovering from Covid

COLOMBO: Opener Abdullah Shafique’s maiden double century and an unbeaten 132 by Salman Ali Agha put Pakistan in the box seat on day three of the second Test against Sri Lanka here at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground on Wednesday. The tourists reached a massive 563-5 at stumps, leading Sri Lanka by 397 runs in their first innings. Salman and concussion substitute Mohammad Rizwan, on 37, were batting in an unbeaten stand of 95 after Abdullah’s departure on 201. Salman played attacking cricket to

The world’s most powerful telescope has been launched into space on Christmas Day. The James Webb Space Telescope( JWST) took off from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 12. 20pm on an Ariane 5 rocket. Designed to answer unsolved questions about the universe, it will look further back in time than ever before, to 400 million years after the Big Bang, the UK Space Agency says.It was originally meant to leave on Christmas Eve, but a forecast of high-level winds at the spaceport forced it to be p