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LocalTags: Print EditionThe new Australian High Commissioner and the new Nepalese Ambassador presented their credentials to President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat. Paul Wesley…

LocalLahiru FernandoTags: Print EditionTrain No. 1528, an office train leaving for Colombo Fort and Ratmalana from Polgahawela has been suspended for several days following a dispute between locomotive drivers over a drivers’ rest room…

LocalGayan Kumara WeerasingheTags: Print EditionThe Colombo Crime Division (CCD) has identified the person who has allegedly credited Rs.5 million to the bank account of Rathindu Senaratne alias Retta who was in the forefront of the…

LocalIshara MudugamuwaTags: Print EditionWith over 30,000 suspected or confirmed cases of ‘Monkeypox’ detected even in non-endemic countries, the Health Ministry of Sri Lanka released guidelines on surveillance, identification and…

LocalDharma Sri AbeyratneAmali Mallawaarachchi and Lahiru FernandoTags: Print EditionThe power cut will be extended to 03 hours from Tuesday (16) due to a breakdown repair of the Norochcholai Lakvijaya coal power plant, a Ceylon…

LocalDharma Sri AbeyratneTags: Print EditionA breakdown of Generator No. 1 of Norochcholai Coal Power Plant has been reported due to a technical fault. Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said that the engineers of the plant…

LocalJayasiri MunasingheTags: Print EditionThe Interim Budget for the next four months of this year (2022) is to be presented in Parliament on August 30 by the President and the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe ‘Ella Odyssey’ inter-city luxury train between Colombo and Badulla which operates on weekends began on Saturday. This train has been launched according to the instructions of the Minister of Transport,…

LocalAsela KURULUWANSATags: Print EditionAn eight-year-old boy and his 59 year old grandmother drowned while bathing in the Pusse Ella waterfall in Meemure. This child, a resident of Gemunu Pura Kuda Oya, had come to Meemure with his…

LocalAmila Prabhath WanasingheTags: Print EditionThree elephants have been killed after coming into contact with an illegally drawn power line by a farmer in the Mihintale area. An elephant and two she-elephants had died after getting…