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There is an attempt to hand over the operations of the Yugadanavi Power Plant in Kerawalapitiya and its supply and storage facilities, to a US-based firm, JVP Leader MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake alleged. Speaking at a press…
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A stock of one million syringes provided by China for the vaccination programme was airlifted to Colombo from Shanghai on SriLankan Airlines UL 867 yesterday morning. Here the stocks being unloaded at the BIA. (Picture by T.K.G.…
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The Security Forces yesterday completed the first dosage vaccination of workers of the Biyagama Free Trade Zone (FTZ) using the Sinopharm vaccine. Here a FTZ employee gets the jab. (Picture by Sulochana Gamage)
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Off the back of a history-making half-century from Chris Gayle, the West Indies claimed the third T20I against Australia to wrap up the series in Gross Islet on Monday. Sent out to bowl first, West Indies held Australia to a…
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IOC President Thomas Bach appeared in public yesterday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week with the pandemic-postponed Olympics opening in just 10 days. His first stop was the Headquarters of the Organising…
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Former India batsman and member of the 1983 World Cup-winning side Yashpal Sharma passed away yesterday. The 66-year-old is reported to have suffered a cardiac arrest. He represented his nation in 37 Tests and 42 One Day…
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Former Police and Sri Lanka scrum half K. D. D. Sunil Dharmasiri Perera who was domiciled in the US, has passed away. An old boy of St. Aloysius’ College, Ratnapura and Mahabodhi Vidyalaya, Colombo 10, Perera who retired as a…
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Sri Lanka’s Ranindu Liyanage lost his opening match to Russian Grandmaster Oparin Grigoriy in the FIDE Chess World Cup 2021, which is now in progress in Sochi, Russia. Liyanage played 90 moves in a marathon game fighting to get a…
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Sri Lanka Under-19 Head Coach Dhammika Sudarshana was yesterday appointed as the Batting Coach of the Sri Lanka Men’s National Cricket Team for the India series. The Secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Mohan de Silva said…
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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will conduct a disciplinary inquiry against Batting Coach Grant Flower on completion of his quarantine period. The inquiry has been set up to inquire into breaching of the bio-bubble during the England…
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