Villagers, the Navy, and Coast Guard launched an operation to send stranded whales back to the sea in #Kalpitiya. lankaxpress.com/whales-beached… #LKA #SriLanka #Whales

The Health Ministry has taken a decision to delay surgeries that are not urgent, in government hospitals - Health Minister

Indian tax authorities raided the BBC and seized its journalists’ phones in a stunning — and apparently retaliatory — move against the British broadcaster weeks after it aired a polarizing documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/…

The Income Tax Authorities are currently at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai and we are fully cooperating. We hope to have this situation resolved as soon as possible.

EGI is deeply concerned about the IT “surveys” being carried out at the offices of BBC India. Is distressed by the continuing trend of government agencies being used to intimidate and harass news organisations that are critical of ruling establishment.

“The searches in New Delhi and Mumbai come weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary in the UK critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Here's an election related fact that is likely NOT to be useful to you. Of the candidates contesting the #LGPollSL2023, 0.4% (>300) are called "Nuwan". More seriously, here's a map of the most common names by district. #SriLanka

Update on India:

Got married, moved countries, had a baby 🤓

While you were all distracted by the loss of your blue tick, you might have missed that Twitter has also now deleted the state-affiliated media labels on leading Chinese outlets.

Former Strictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman has died at the age of 78, his manager says bbc.in/3oxjS2l

Great piece about “the absurdity of a marriage between the news media and a speculative tech industry that can only conceptualize it as either a threat or as food.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This seemed like a good tweet with which to break a Twitter hiatus.

Back in Singapore and wasting no time eating all the food we missed. Already done: Mala chips, salted duck egg, food court bento box. Still on the list: CHONGQING CHICKEN or LA ZI JI. (Because it has to be eaten from the correct place obviously)

Deadly shooting rattles Auckland just before Women's World Cup bbc.in/44LSuxm

Well done! #Chandrayaan3

India makes history. The country's latest lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has successfully landed near the Moon's south pole making India the first country to do so. Watch what it means for the country and for deep space. #Chandrayaan3 #ISRO #MoonLanding

The BBC is looking for a senior digital journalist. We are looking for an enterprising and ambitious news editor based in Singapore who can break stories, edit live pages, commission quick takes and set the BBC’s daily news agenda in Asia. More: careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Singapore-…