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LocalRAVI LADDUWAHETTYTags: Print EditionFormer Criminal Investigation Department Director (CID), retired SSP Shani Abeysekara has filed a petition with the Appeals Court seeking a writ order nullifying the recommendations against him…

SportsTags: AustraliaSri LankaCricketSri Lanka National Team will play a five match T20I series vs Australia from 11th to 20th February 2022, stated the Sri Lanka Cricket. The matches will be played across three venues, the SCG, Manuka…

WorldTags: Print EditionBelgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford, 19, holds her Guinness World Record certificates following her landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport, after a round-the-world trip in a light aircraft, becoming the youngest…

LocalTags: Print EditionSJB MP Eran Wickramaratne said the crisis with regard to economic management and governance has gone beyond government control subjecting masses to severe hardships without essential goods and services. He was…

WorldTags: GhanaGhana BlastAt least 17 people have been killed in a huge explosion near a mining town in south-western Ghana, officials say.   Police say a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine collided with a motorcycle near the…

WorldA woman searching through shoes at the entrance of a field where 29 persons died after they were trampled upon in a stampede at a Christian crusade in New Kru Town, Monrovia, Liberia on Wednesday.Tags: Print EditionLIBERIA: At…

LocalLahiru Fernando and T.K. MahindaTags: Print EditionA 46-year-old individual was reported shot dead in the Turkish Village in Midigama around 8 p.m. on Thursday. The deceased, Jayasekara Newson Kumara, a father of three, has been…

LocalTags: COVID19coronavirusSri Lanka26,796 people have received the Pfizer booster (third) dose on Thursday. In total 4,861,472 people have been administered the Booster dose since October, said the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry…

LocalTags: Sri LankaThe delegation led by Park Byeong-Seug, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea made a special visit to Parliament today (21) morning to make a courtesy call on Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, Speaker of…

WorldTags: Print EditionSWITZERLAND: Global unemployment is expected to remain above pre-COVID-19 levels until at least 2023 and is estimated at 207 million this year, almost 21 million more than in 2019, according to a report from the…