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LocalTags: Print EditionUS: The United States has imposed sanctions on Sri Lanka-based businessman Mohamad Irshad Mohamad Haris Nizar after being identified as a business associate of a sanctioned al-Qa’ida financial facilitator and…

LocalAsela KURULUWANSATags: Print EditionThe parents of Sachini Lakshani Galappaththi, a Peradeniya University student who died while receiving treatment at the Kandy National Hospital after being seriously injured in a car accident, have…

LocalTags: Print EditionINDIA: India’s Supreme Court has ordered that six convicts in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, to be set at liberty forthwith. The convicts Nalini, Ravichandran, Jayakumar, Robert Pais,…

LocalMahinda AluthgedaraTags: Print EditionThe Foreign Ministry has decided to immediately summon the SLBFE officer attached to the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oman, who was accused of aiding and abetting smugglers sending Sri Lankan women to…

LocalT.K.G. KapilaKatunayakeTags: Print EditionThe first flight of Edelweiss from Switzerland arrived at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) last afternoon. The airline operates direct flights between Zurich International…

LocalDharma Sri AbeyratneTags: Print EditionPower and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said that another 2,800 megawatts of renewable energy will be added to the national electricity system by 2026. The minister stated this while…

LocalTags: Print EditionNewly appointed Atamasthanadhipathi of Anuradhapura Most Ven. Pallegama Hemarathana Thera will assume duties at the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi premises today (11). Most Ven. Hemarathana Thera was appointed to the position…

LocalMahinda P. LiyanageTags: Print EditionA tense situation erupted at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital following a fire that erupted at its Cancer Ward at around 7 p.m. yesterday. Hospital Director Dr.S.P.U.M.Ranga said that the fire had…

LocalIshara Mudugamuwa and Amali MallawaarachchiTags: Print EditionEducation Minister Susil Premajayantha revealed in Parliament yesterday that 81 school children have been directed to rehabilitation due to drug addiction within January…

Remanded principal interdicted over child assault:LocalDharma Sri Abeyratne and Bimal JayasingheTags: Print EditionThe Principal of Gungamuwa Primary School in Millaniya, who was remanded over the alleged assault and torture of several…