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Sri Lankan students win the BIMSTEC Silver Jubilee Quiz Contest in Bhutan
THIMPHU: Sayurangi Premasiri of Mahamaya Girls’ College, Kandy and Medhini Anupama Wanigaratne of Hillwood College, Kandy won the Championship of the BIMSTEC…
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Human Rights Watch urges Sri Lanka to revoke sweeping new order to restrict protest
NEW YORK: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Sri Lankan government to reverse a new regulation that unlawfully…
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President Wickremesinghe appeals to diaspora in UK to invest in Sri Lanka
LONDON: President Ranil Wickremesinghe who visited the United Kingdom to attend the funeral ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II had met…
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Senior medical professionals call for urgent action to address people’s desire for a system change
COLOMBO: Senior medical professionals in Sri Lanka have called for urgent action to solve the shortages of food, fuel, medicine…
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Sri Lankans in Australians won’t send money to struggling friends and family fearing it will fall into the wrong hands
MELBOURNE: Sri Lankans living in Australia are refraining from sending desperately-needed funds to struggling friends and family back home, fearing…
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Dr. Shafi returns his salary arrears to the Ministry of Health to purchase medicines
COLOMBO: Dr. Seigu Shihabdeen Mohammad Shafi, a specialist in the obstetrics and gynecology unit of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital, who…
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CPA slams state authorities for ‘total paralysis’ and urges public and media to show empathy when reporting murder of nine-year-old girl
COLOMBO: The Child Protection Alliance (CPA) has slammed ‘the total paralysis’ of state authorities over the way they have responded…
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‘They could not save their baby’: the human cost of Sri Lanka’s fuel crisis, reports The Guardian newspaper
COLOMBO: It was, said the doctor, an avoidable delay that would haunt these parents for ever. When their two-day-old daughter…
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UNICEF condemns violence against children during protests in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: In a direct indictment of the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka, UNICEF has condemned the violence against children during…
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Drop all charges against peaceful protesters, says Amnesty International
BANGKOK: Responding to the news that at least 12 peaceful protesters were unlawfully arrested today by police officers for demonstrating…
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