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LocalShavini MadharaTags: Print EditionColombo Chief Magistrate Nandana Amarasinghe yesterday rejected a request made by the Cinnamon Gardens Police to issue an Order preventing a group of members including the Convener of the…

LocalTags: Print EditionCommittee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Chairman Prof. Charitha Herath yesterday said that the Committee will decide whether former CEB Chairman M.M.C. Ferdinando is summoned to the Committee on June 21. He said…

LocalTags: Print EditionA large number of devotees gathered in the sacred city of Anuradhapura yesterday for the Poson festival. The picture shows devotees at the Ruwanweli Maha Seya. Picture by Amila Prabhath Wanasinghe in…

LocalLahiru FernandoTags: Print EditionPrivate bus operations countrywide will have to be stopped by Friday (17) unless the authorities take steps to provide them with diesel within the next two days, Lanka Private Bus Owners’…

LocalP.K.BandaraTags: Print EditionFuel prices were last revised on May 24 and June 24 will mark a month since the last fuel price revision. Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy Mapa Pathirana said that after reviewing several…

LocalTags: Print EditionBRAZIL: A body has been found in the search for a missing British journalist in the Amazon rainforest. Dom Phillips’ wife Allesandra is said to have shared the tragic news with the Brazilian media. A second body…

LocalDharma Sri AbeyratneTags: Print EditionLitro Gas announced that there will be no gas distribution today for the seventh consecutive day due to the inability to pay the dues to the gas ship that arrived on the island. The ship…

LocalBimal Jayasinghe Bandaragama Corr.Tags: Print EditionThe Southern Express Traffic Police yesterday arrested a man for driving a luxury car at a speed of 196 Kilometers Per Hour (KMPH) on the Southern Expressway. Police said that…

LocalTags: Print EditionHousing and Urban Development Minister Prasanna Ranatunga visited his torched house in Minuwangoda for the first time after the May 9 incidents triggered countrywide acts of arson on houses of MPs.  Monday, June…

LocalMahinda P.LiyanageTags: Print EditionA bullet which had been stuck in the lung of a man who was admitted to the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit of Galle Karapitiya Teaching Hospital after being seriously injured in a shooting was…