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LocalTags: Print EditionThe import of over 300 items has been temporarily suspended with effect from August 23  under the Import and Export Control Act through a government notification by the Finance Ministry. President Ranil…

LocalTags: Print EditionPresident Ranil Wickremesinghe as Finance Minister will present the inaugural speech of the Second Reading of the Appropriation (Amendment) Bill on August 30. Acting Secretary General of Parliament Kushani…

LocalGayan Kumara Weerasinghe and Anuradha PriyadarshanaTags: Print EditionAn accomplice of underworld kingpin Kosgoda Sujee narrowly escaped a shooting aimed at him at Ahungalla area yesterday.  An unidentified gunman on a motorcycle…

LocalTags: Print EditionInspector General of Police C. D. Wickramaratne met President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the President’s Office yesterday (23). This customary meeting was held after the President assumed office as…

LocalSandya KarunaratneTags: Print EditionA 13 year old student from a leading boys school in Colombo was yesterday shocked to find a young cobra hiding inside his shoe when he removed it at school. The boy from a suburb in Colombo who…

LocalAmali MallawaarachchiTags: Print EditionSri Lanka has been ranked fifth among 10 countries with the highest food price inflation in the world in the latest World Bank assessment. According to the World Bank food security update,…

LocalTags: Print EditionPresident of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan extended his best wishes to the newly appointed President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe. In a congratulatory message to the President, the Armenian…

LocalTags: Print EditionA Professor at a Jaffna University had tried to commit suicide recently as he lost the opportunity to function in the Acting Head of the Department post. When a Head of the Department (HOD) of a Faculty in the…

LocalAmali MallawaarachchiTags: Print EditionAustralia in cooperation with India is to supply fuel to the Sri Lankan Navy and Air Force. The Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka issuing a twitter message stated, “Australia is…

Death fall for Peradeniya Campus Assistant InstructorLocalAsela Kuruluwansa and Saman Vijaya Bandara Mawanella SpecialTags: Print EditionA member of Explorers’ Club of the University of Peradeniya fell to death at the Saradiel Gala,…