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LocalTags: Print EditionAccording to the Kaluthara South Police, a young couple was run over by a truck driver while buying fish from a roadside fish vendor resulting in the death of the young girl. The victim is a 23-year-old girl named…

LocalTags: Print EditionAn earthquake of magnitude 4.4 has been recorded near Hambanthota. According to the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau the tremor has occurred around 25.8km off the coast of Hambanthota towards the South-Eastern…

LocalNuwan KodikaraTags: Print EditionFormer Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Chairman, MP Prof. G. L. Peiris  said that the general meeting of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna held on Saturday (22) was not legal and appropriate judicial processes…

LocalTags: Print EditionPrime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena issued a special stamp depicting the history of the Sita Amman Temple, together with a first day cover and laid the foundation stone for an International Meditation Centre at the…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe death occurred yesterday of Edward Botejue (88), a former top official of the Industrial Development Board (IDB), State Mortgage and Investment Bank (SMIB) and the Family Planning Association (FPA). An old boy of…

LocalVen. Samanthabadra Thera and Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Southern India Dr. D Venkateshwaran. Tags: Print EditionVen. Samanthabadra Thera, while on a cultural tour in Chennai, called on Deputy High Commissioner of Sri…

LocalTags: Print EditionAccording to an Advisory notice issued by the Department of Meteorology regarding the Heat index; the temperature felt on human body is expected to increase up to ‘Caution’ level at some places in Western,…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe Department of Registration of Persons has announced that a program has been prepared to issue National ID cards to persons over the age of 40 who are unable to obtain a National ID card due to the absence of a…

LocalTags: Print EditionSpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded few minutes after it was launched from South Texas yesterday (20 April). The flight test was the first for Starship mounted atop the company's new Super Heavy…

LocalTags: Print EditionAward winning film ‘Dadayama’ will be telecast on Rupavahini at 10 p.m. today under the Cinechaya programme. A discussion of the film will take place from 9.30 p.m. to 10. p.m. Dadayama is a 1983 film directed by…