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A Buddhist monk chants as local residents offer prayer during a ceremony to celebrate Pchum Ben or Ancestors’ Day at Kob Srov Pagoda on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians began the celebration of the traditional 15-day…
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Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday said that the Government has no right to sell the Kerawalapitiya Yugadanavi Power Station to an American based company in a secret manner. The related agreement has been signed by the…
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and First Lady Ioma Rajapaksa place floral tributes at the 9/11 Memorial in New York during a 20th anniversary commemoration ceremony organised by the UN yesterday.  (UN Photo)
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Keeping the crops safe from monkeys is an exhausting task for farmers in some rural villages in Matale. They have to come up with new ways to keep the monkeys away from their crops. The farmers decided to take the matter into…
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US Ambassador in Sri Lanka Alaina B Teplitz has tweeted that she enjoyed listening to the violin cover of the hit Sri Lankan song Manike Mage Hithe by Yohani and Satheeshan. The Ambassador said the violin version played by…
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Two men aged 60 and 44 were killed and another injured when two trap guns intended to kill wild animals were accidentally triggered in the Thirappane area.The incident had taken place close to the Muriyakalla tank in the Thirappane…
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Two inmates at the Colombo Magazine Prison including a former LTTE cadre have passed the GCE Ordinary Level Examination 2020 with excellent grades. A young suspect detained related to a crime has passed with three ‘A’ grades…
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489 persons were arrested yesterday for not wearing face masks and failing to maintain social distancing, stated the Police Media Division. So far 77,125 suspects have been arrested for not wearing face masks and maintaining…
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The New Zealand High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, His Excellency Michael Edward Appleton paid a courtesy call on Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne at the Navy Headquarters today. The cordial discussion…
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The Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena endorsed his certificate on the Consumer Affairs Authority (Amendment) Bill, No 09 of 2003 yesterday (22). The Bill was passed without amendments after being debated in Parliament yesterday…
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