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LocalTags: Print EditionPresident Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday arrived at the Anuradhapura Sacred city and received the blessings of Atamasthanadhipathi and Chief Sanghanayake of Nuwara Kalaviya Most Ven. Pallegama Hemarathana Thera. The…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe Meteorological Department yesterday evening said that there is no tsunami threat to Sri Lanka following the earthquake of magnitude 6.8 what reported in the Indian Ocean yesterday evening. Foreign media reported…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will be made a chartered body, Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said. He said the Institute has the required resources,…

LocalGayan Kumara WeerasingheTags: Print EditionA five-year-old child from Kataragama was reported dead after he was severely injured by an air rifle which misfired on Wednesday.   According to Police, the father of the deceased had…

Local Jayasiri MunasingheTags: Print EditionEven amidst a number of challenging situations including an increase in raw materials, the shortage of fuel and lockdown of the country, the Excise Department has succeeded in earning an income…

LocalJayasiri MunasingheTags: Print EditionExcise Commissioner General M. J. Gunasiri said that the department will hold a special discussion and seminar next week with Beedi sellers on implementing the plan on the proposal made in Budget…

LocalLahiru FernandoTags: Print EditionThe Women and Child Affairs Ministry together with the Education Ministry has launched a programme to prevent harassment   of children in the education sector, Ministry Secretary Neil Bandara Hapuhinna…

LocalIrangika RangeTags: Print EditionA programme will be implemented to provide light vehicle driving licences to hearing impaired people for the first time in Sri Lanka.  As a pilot project, light vehicle driving licences will be provided…

LocalTags: Print EditionAgriculture and Wildlife and Forest Conservation Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has instructed the Wildlife Secretary to take necessary steps to take care of tusker Muthuraja through the Dehiwala National Zoological…

LocalTags: Print EditionIt has been confirmed that the crop damage caused by wild animals in Sri Lanka is 54 billion rupees per year. Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said according to calculations made by the Agriculture Ministry,…