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Sri Lanka Insurance held its Annual General Meeting (AGM), via zoom online platform on July 7. The Chairman and Board of Directors participated at the meeting adhering to the COVID-19 health and safety standards. During the AGM…
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INDONESIA: Indonesia, Iran and France were suffering alarming surges in COVID-19 cases yesterday, as Governments raced to vaccinate populations in a bid to outpace the highly-contagious Delta variant wreaking havoc across the globe.…
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UK: Antibody levels remain high nine months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, according to a study published on Monday that analysed data from an entire Italian town.…
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US: US President Joe Biden on Monday toned down his comments about Facebook after accusing it of “killing people” by not stopping COVID vaccine misinformation, but he still urged the world’s largest social network to do more. “We…
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US: The wealthiest man on the planet Jeff Bezos said the “most profound” aspect of his brief journey to space was the spectacular view he saw of Earth, which left him amazed by its beauty and fragility. “Every astronaut who’s…
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SWITZERLAND: Climate change has dramatically altered the Swiss Alp landscape -- at a quicker pace than expected -- as melting glaciers have created more than 1,000 new lakes across in the mountains, a study published Monday showed.…
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US: In its largest-ever crisis response, the World Bank has deployed over USD 157 billion to fight the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, economic and social fronts over the last 15 months. This represents an increase of…
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Police arrested a 23-year-old man for stealing copper pipes from an AC machine at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Headquarters in Maradana, yesterday. The suspect is a resident of Imamul Aroos Avenue, Colombo. He was produced before…
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Two teams have been deployed to record statements and circumstantial evidence from the related parties over the death of a 16-year-old girl who died of burn injuries while working as a domestic maid at the residence of MP Rishad…
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Former MP Hirunika Premachandra has filed a Fundamental Rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the Presidential Pardon given to former MP Duminda Silva is unconstitutional. In her petition, Hirunika…
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