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Live streaming wildlife; Sri Lanka tourism goes virtual
Adapting to the new normal of the global travel and tourism industry, a strategic initiative will be taken by the Sri Lanka Touris...
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President suspends Colombo LRT project
Sri Lanka has arbitrarily decided to terminate the Japanese-funded, US$ 2.2 billion Colombo Light Rail Transit (LRT) project, stre...
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India to assist Sri Lanka in capacity building & skill development
Indian High Commissioner Gopal Bagley initimated the Indian government's willingness to assist Sri Lanka in areas such as ca...
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Illegal deforestation continues with the help of politicians
The devastation caused to Sri Lanka's forest cover by stooges connected to powerful provincial politicians of the ruling alliance...
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20A: 120 SOEs exempted from government audit
Nearly 120 State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) including the debt ridden SriLankan Airlines will be exempt from government audit under...
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Sri Lanka's economy to contract by 5.5%
Sri Lanka’s economic output will contract by 5.5 percent in 2020 as the country is recovering from the heavy economic toll caused...
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Non-life insurers expect stalled premium growth
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, price competition among non-life insurers in Sri Lanka is likely to intensify as a ban on auto...
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Liberia declares rape a national emergency after spike in cases
Liberian President George Weah has declared rape a national emergency and ordered new measures to tackle the problem after a recen...
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"The point was to make people start talking': Osaka wins emotional US Open
Naomi Osaka returned to the fore in women's tennis Saturday by coming back to defeat Victoria Azarenka and win her second U.S. Ope...
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Moors Sports Club brings in Kapugedera as Head Coach
Moors Sports Club, steeped in rich history spanning over 110 years and situated in the heart of Colombo has now embarked on a cour...
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World No.1 Novak Djokovic defaulted from US Open for hitting lineswoman in throat
Novak Djokovic has been defaulted from the US Open for hitting and felling a lineswoman with a ball. The world No.1 fled Flushing...
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A husband and wife in Ecuador are the world’s oldest married couple
Julio Ceasar Mora and his wife Waldramina Maclovia Quinteros have been married for 79 years, and their relationship isn’t the only...
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Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ananya Panday to ditch Sri Lanka schedule
As the film industry gets ready to go back to work with lockdown restrictions easing around the state, it seems that director Shak...
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'Elephant Twins' : Rare set spotted in Sri Lanka's Minneriya National Park?
Marking a first, a pair of elephant calves feeding from the same mother has been spotted in Sri Lanka. The rare sighting has now p...
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