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BusinessAnanda KannangaraLaksala sends first consignment of handicraft items to USATags: Print EditionIn an endeavor of promoting Sri Lanka’s traditional handicraft items, produced by local craftsmen to international markets, the Sri…
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BusinessThe key award winners at the 24th Presidential Export AwardsTags: Print EditionThe 24th Presidential Export Awards (PEA) initiated by the Export Development Board since 1981 concluded last Friday at BMICH with Preisdnet…
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BusinessRAVI LADDUWAHETTYTags: Print EditionThe Government will go ahead with a Fuel Price Stabilization Fund and though the benefits won’t be immediate. The fund shall decide fuel prices going forward and not government ministers,…
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WorldTags: Print EditionUS: Gun violence erupted at retail outlets crowded with post-Thanksgiving holiday shoppers in North Carolina and Washington state on Friday, sending bystanders at both locations scurrying for cover and injuring…
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WorldThe 190-tonne Airbus A340 successfully landed on an ice runway in Antarctica.Tags: Print EditionANTARCTICA: For the first time in history, a commercial Airbus plane made a successful landing on the white continent of Antarctica.…
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WorldA Taliban checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Herat Province.Tags: Print EditionAFGHANISTAN: Taliban have killed a young physician in Afghanistan’s Herat province, local media reported citing sources on Friday. According to Khaama Press,…
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WorldWHO South-East Asia Region Regional Director Dr. Poonam Khetrapal SinghTags: Print EditionCOVID-19coronavirusINDIA: Amid the detection of a new coronavirus variant and surge in cases elsewhere, the WHO Saturday asked countries in…
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Moderna to develop booster shot for new COVID variantWorldTags: Print EditionCOVID-19coronavirusA spokesperson for medical company BioNTech, which developed a coronavirus vaccine together with Pfizer, said Friday that the firm would…
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WorldMigrant children at a camp in Calais, northern France.Tags: Print EditionFRANCE: The price to cross the English Channel varies according to the network of smugglers, between 3,000 and 7,000 euros ($3,380 and $8,000) though there…
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WorldThe scene of the bus crash in the Mexican township of Joquicingo,.Tags: Print EditionMEXICO: Nineteen people have died and 32 injured after a bus carrying people to a religious site in Mexico crashed into a house. The Friday…
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