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Victims appeal to AG to protect former CID chief's life
Victims who have had their loved ones murdered or forcibly disappeared have made an appeal to the Attorney General to safeguard th...
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Karu warns against the suppression of media freedom
Former speaker and the chairman of the National Movement for a Just Society, Karu Jayasuriya has criticized attempts to suppress i...
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"Take strong preventive measures to save Shani's life": HRCSL writes to Prisons chief
The petition requesting the release on bail of former CID Director Shani Abeysekara, who is in remand custody, was taken up at the...
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COVID-19 hit SMEs to get ADB funding of USD 165 million for survival
Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 battered small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) are to be infused with financial life blood with much needed fun...
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Obama refers to Sri Lanka North and East war in his
Former US President Barack Obama has referred to Sri Lanka’s North and East war in his latest book. Obama's “A Promised Land” topp...
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Fitch downgrades Sri Lanka to 'CCC' amid heightened debt sustainability risks
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Sri Lanka's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'CCC'. The downgrade reflects S...
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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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