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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. MORE..
12 Dec 2024 (11:21 PM)
The enduring fisheries conflict in the Palk Bay - which impacts fisher folk of northern Sri Lanka and daily wage fishermen of Tamil Nadu - can be decisively resolved only if the Indian side stops using the destructive bottomtrawling method, according to Sri Lanka s Minister of Fisheries Ramalingam Chandrasekar. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:29 AM)
A donation of 55,000 metric tonnes of Muriate of Potash (MOP) fertilizer, also known as Bandi Pohora, has been handed over to the Government of Sri Lanka today (12) under the World Food Programme (WFP). MORE..
12 Dec 2024 (10:57 PM)
The Department of Meteorology says showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Northern, North-central and North-western provinces. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (9:01 AM)
The Canadian Government has expressed its strong commitment to supporting Sri Lanka s initiatives to combat corruption and fraud, the President s Media Division (PMD) reported. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (1:59 PM)
