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Kurunegala Additional Magistrate Kosala Bandara Illangasinghe released on bail two men arrested for the possession of counterfeit currency yesterday. Bail was set at Rs.50,000 each. The duo had been taken into custody after the…
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US: US hospitals are desperately hunting for medical staff as the COVID-19 wave that’s pushing some systems to their breaking point in the South spills into the rest of the country. More than a dozen states face severe shortages…
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INDIA: Mumbai has reported its first death due to the Delta Plus variant of the novel coronavirus. According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, a 63-year-old woman, who had succumbed to COVID-19 infection last…
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NORWAY: COVID-19 may behave like other common-cold coronaviruses in the next few years, affecting mostly young children who have not yet been vaccinated or exposed to the virus, according to a modelling study published on Thursday.…
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SWITZERLAND: The number of countries, areas or territories reporting various variants of Covid-19 has continued to increase after the global infection tally surpassed the 200 million mark last week, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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Coca-Cola’s journey in Sri Lanka began 60 years ago on April 1961, when consumers tasted their first ice-cold sip of Coca-Cola from a 300-millilitre glass bottle. By establishing its footprint in Sri Lanka, Coca-Cola has invested…
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'Supreme TV'- Sri Lanka's latest Sinhala TV Channel has expanded islandwide joining the fight against Covid-19's adverse impact on the nation's education sector. The Channel has joined an existing TV infrastructure and has…
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EXPO 2020 DUBAI, wil be held from six months from and Sri Lanka too will be participating at a specially designed and dedicated pavilion in the ‘Opportunity District’ of the Expo Village. The pavilion with its water-based theme…
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Army personnel attached to the mobile vaccination fleet administering the COVID-19 vaccine to an elderly person at her residence in Wellawatte yesterday. Picture by Rukmal Gamage
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Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarian Tissa Attanayake yesterday said that the Government should at least now invite all members of Parliament irrespective of their parties to discuss the measures to be taken to arrest the…
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