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WorldIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairing a COVID-19 review meeting on Thursday.Tags: Print EditionINDIA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a review meeting on Thursday, directed top officials coordinating India's COVId-19…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on people to support measures put in place by countries in view of the new COVID-19 variant and the holiday season. The WHO said the overall threat posed by Omicron…

WorldOfficials show amphetamine that was hidden in punching bags bound for Australia, seized in a Thailand port, in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday. Tags: Print EditionTHAILAND: Thai authorities have seized crystal methamphetamine with a…

LocalRAVI LADDUWAHETTYTags: Print EditionAgriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has assured that there would not be a rice shortage in 2022. He says certain statements warning about a looming shortage cannot be accepted as 90 to…

WorldTags: Print EditionBANGLADESH: At least 37 people died when a packed ferry caught fire in southern Bangladesh on Friday, police said, in the latest maritime tragedy to hit the low-lying nation. The incident happened early in the…

LocalAnanda KannangaraTags: Print EditionThe Government’s decision to increase fuel prices will affect the country’s economically important production and transport sectors, Colombo University’s Economics Department Head Prof. Sirimal…

COVAX targets 70 per cent :WorldTags: Print EditionSWITZERLAND: Amid possible need for variant-specific vaccines, changes to vaccination policies, country preference for some products over others, the programmatic complexity of…

LocalTags: Print EditionA poultry farm in Pannala was destroyed by a major fire killing more than 3000 heads of poultry. Fire is believed to have been triggered by a gas leakage. Police investigations are on Friday, December 24, 2021 -…

WorldVatican security guards checking people. Tags: Print EditionCOVID-19coronavirusVATICAN CITY: All Vatican officials and employees will have to have a green pass showing they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or prove they…

SportsTags: Print EditionEngland captain Joe Root says he will bang out a hundred as the tourists plot an Ashes fight back in the Boxing Day Test. Having lost the opening two Tests of the five-match series in Brisbane and Adelaide,…