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AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban has seized US weapons left in Afghanistan worth billions — possibly including 600,000 assault rifles, some 2,000 armored vehicles, and 40 aircraft, including Black Hawks, according to reports. The US gave…
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AFGHANISTAN: Carrying his rifle down by his side, Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the storied 82nd Airborne Division, became the last US soldier to board the final flight out of Afghanistan a minute before midnight on Monday.…
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BELGIUM: EU member states strove Tuesday to find consensus on how to help Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries take in refugees fleeing the Taliban and prevent an influx of migrants comparable to 2015. “We need to avoid a…
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Despite the exerted pressures due to the pandemic, Sri Lanka so far maintained an unblemished record of debt servicing, Ministry of Finance Mid-Year Fiscal Position Report 2021 said. Foreign debt to GDP ratio slashed to 40%. The…
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Amana Takaful Insurance (ATI), Sri Lanka’s fully fledged insurance company, announces that its 2021 first quarter record performance has been successfully sustained during the second quarter as well. ATI has triumphed Q2, with an 18%…
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Kelani Valley Plantations PLC (KVPL), a member of the Hayleys Plantations sector, set a new global benchmark for the plantations industry, as all ten of its rubber estates received the world’s first Sustainability Framework…
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K Seeds Investments has identified LB Finance PLC as the best performing finance company under the 1st category among the 29 listed finance companies in Sri Lanka through a ranking carried out based on their financial performance for…
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As part of the economic diplomacy programme of the Mission in Kenya, to interact with the Sri Lankan investors who remit the investment proceeds to contribute to the foreign exchange earnings of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka High…
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The 15th Finance Commission has tied grants of 1,42,084 Indian crore to ensure more funds to gram panchayats to make their water supply and sanitation-related plans, the Ministry of Jal Shakti said on Sunday. The Department of…
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