Sri Lanka’s Energy minister resigns
COLOMBO, April 17 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody and ministry secretary Udayanga Hemapala resigned on Friday followingContinue Reading
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41 bodies recovered, dozens more feared dead in Pakistan plane crash
More than 40 bodies have been recovered after a Pakistani plane crashed with nearly 100 people on board in theContinue Reading
Sri Lanka scraps $40mn cricket stadium on advice of top players
AFP•May 21, 2020 Sri Lanka’s prime minister Thursday scrapped plans for a $40 million cricket stadium after local legends ofContinue Reading
Brazil suffers record 1,188 daily coronavirus deaths
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil registered a record of 1,188 daily coronavirus deaths on Thursday, with more than 20,000Continue Reading
EasyJet to restart some flights in June with compulsory masks
LONDON (Reuters) – British low-cost airline easyJet said it would restart a small number of flights on June 15, becoming theContinue Reading
Apple, Google launch contact tracing platform
US tech giants Apple and Google said Wednesday they were offering health authorities around the world their platform for coronavirusContinue Reading
WHO reports most coronavirus cases in a day as cases approach five million
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization expressed concern on Wednesday about the rising number of new coronavirus cases inContinue Reading
Election commission says Sri Lanka poll not possible in June
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s independent elections commission said Wednesday it cannot hold parliamentary elections on June 20Continue Reading
Mandatory cremations of COVID-19 victims an act of institutionalised Islamophobia- Prominent US scholar
Omar Suleiman the prominent Islamic scholar based in US says Sri Lanka’s decision to make cremations mandatory for COVID-19 victimsContinue Reading
#India to resume domestic flights in ‘calibrated manner’ from May 25
Domestic flights across India will resume operations starting May 25, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Puri said. This willContinue Reading
Sri Lanka crosses 1000 cases of #COVID19 as 28 more tests positive
Sri Lankan health officials confirmed today that total count COVID-19 infections in Sri Lanka surpassed 1,000 on Tuesday (19). Twenty-eightContinue Reading
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