frontpage

RUSSIA: A day after scientists announced that mRNA vaccines are effective against the Delta variant of Covid-19, a single dose variant of Russia's Sputnik-V vaccine has shown 94 per cent efficacy among those recovered Covid-19…
Read More...

SWITZERLAND: Two Chinese vaccine makers, Sinovac and Sinopharm, have agreed to immediately begin making more than 100 million Covid vaccine doses available to the Covax distribution facility, Gavi said Monday. "The agreements,…
Read More...

INDIA: A total of 68 people died in separate lightning incidents across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan on Sunday. While the death toll due to heavy lightning in Uttar Pradesh mounted to 41 on Monday, seven people…
Read More...

US: British billionaire Richard Branson flew into space Sunday aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel, a voyage he described as the “experience of a lifetime” -- and one he hopes will usher in an era of lucrative space tourism. The…
Read More...

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan’s Kabul airport has been fitted with an air defence system to counter incoming rockets, officials said Sunday, as the Taliban pressed on with a blistering offensive across the country. Washington and its…
Read More...

CHILE, URUGUAY, TURKEY, THAILAND: China is the world’s largest vaccine supplier, having supplied more than 480 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the international community, provided vaccine assistance to nearly 100 countries, and…
Read More...

BELGIUM: A 90-year-old woman died after becoming infected with two different strains of Covid-19, revealing another risk in the fight against the disease, Belgian researchers found. In the first peer-reviewed analysis of an…
Read More...

oDoc, Sri Lanka’s largest digital health company, has partnered with John Keells Holdings, the nation’s leading conglomerate, to provide access to healthcare services to over 3,000 John Keells Holdings employees. Founded in 2017,…
Read More...

The Three Sinha Group, one of Sri Lanka’s leading construction companies, recently opened its branch in Negombo with the aim of providing a better service to the customers. Managing Director of Three Sinha Group of Companies,…
Read More...

3DH Building Solutions flagship store was opened at Sri Jinarathana Road, Colombo 2, by the Group Directors of 3DH International recently followed by multi religious blessings. 3DH Building Solutions, the sole authorized agents…
Read More...