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Sri Lanka Tourism wins first-degree laureate at Moscow's Let's Travel forum
Sri Lanka Tourism won the Let's Travel First-Degree Laureate Award at the 6th International Tourism Forum in Moscow, securing recognition among 12.
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EU and Save the Children Launch €1 Million Ditwah Recovery for 12,000 People
A €1 million EU programme via Save the Children will aid 12,000 Cyclone Ditwah survivors in Badulla, Nuwara Eliya and Kandy with cash and psychosocial support.
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First of 27 Colombo city dispensaries reopens after Kompanyaveediya revamp
Colombo Mayor Vraîe Cally Balthazaar opened the refurbished Kompanyaveediya Polyclinic, the first of 27 city dispensaries to be revamped.
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2025 G.C.E. Ordinary Level results released online via doenets.lk
The Department of Examinations has released the 2025 O/L results online, with 451,463 candidates able to retrieve scores from doenets.lk by index number.
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PM Harini: holistic primary education key to shaping Sri Lanka's future leaders
Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya said children must be exposed to aesthetics and sports from primary education to nurture future leaders.
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President's Fund Hands Out Rs.5.8M of Laptops to 14 University Students
The President's Fund distributed laptops worth Rs.5.8 million to 14 university students drawn from Divisional Secretariat applications across the island.
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University of West London opens Sri Lanka branch campus, the country's first full UK university outpost
UWL has opened its first overseas branch campus in Colombo with ANC, offering Business, IT, Law, AI, Psychology and Early Childhood Education degrees.
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Aedes aegypti's 'multiple feeding' makes it Sri Lanka's deadliest dengue vector, NDCU warns
Sri Lanka's National Dengue Control Unit said Aedes aegypti's 'multiple feeding' behaviour makes it the country's deadliest dengue vector.
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1,500 officers recruited to protect Sri Lanka's electric elephant fences
Sri Lanka has recruited 1,500 officers and deployed 5,000 Civil Security personnel to guard electric elephant fences, with 532 more added for oversight.
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PM Harini pledges equal modern-world access for all children on Kurunegala school visit
PM Harini told a St. Bernadette's Kurunegala prize-giving that giving every child equal access to modern-world opportunities is a government priority.
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President's Fund grants monthly aid to 1964 Tokyo Olympian Karunananda's widow
Rs. 20,000 a month from the President's Fund will cover medical care for Ranatunge Karunananda's widow in Naththandiya after an engineer flagged her case.
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School Teacher Killed in SLTB Bus Accident on Jaffna–Kandy Road
A 56-year-old female teacher from Galkandegama Vidyalaya died after an SLTB Kandy-Vavuniya bus collided with her motorcycle in Poonewa on the Jaffna-Kandy.
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Rear-seat seatbelt installation deadline ends June 19; expressway enforcement to follow
National Council for Road Safety chair Manjula Kularatne said the rear-seat seatbelt grace period ends June 19, with expressway enforcement to step up.
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Sri Lanka Tourism wins four awards at Seoul International Travel Fair 2026
Sri Lanka Tourism took four awards at Seoul Travel Fair 2026, with Deputy Minister Ruwan Ranasinghe receiving the SITF Eminent Tourism Pioneer Award.
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Aswasuma to credit Rs. 10.9 billion in June allowances to 1.37 million families
The Welfare Benefits Board will credit Rs. 10.9 billion in Aswasuma June allowances to 1,373,248 first-phase beneficiary families on Thursday.
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Cabinet approves Rs. 1 billion to renovate 126 dilapidated school hostels by 2028
Cabinet cleared Rs. 1,008mn to renovate 126 dilapidated school hostels during 2026–2028 under a proposal by PM Harini Amarasuriya as Education Minister.
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Trinity College Kandy announces Rs. 3 billion donation from old boy Nahil Wijesuriya
Trinity College Kandy will set up a dedicated fund to manage the Rs. 3 billion gift from old boy and businessman Nahil Wijesuriya, the principal said.
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UGC to release 2025/26 university cut-off marks in first week of August
UGC says 92,043 students have applied to state universities; cut-off marks for the 2025/26 academic year will be released in early August.
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19-hour water cut hits parts of Gampaha District for Karasnagala plant maintenance
Water supply suspended from 8 a.m. Tuesday to 3 a.m. Wednesday across Gampaha, Mahara, Attanagalla and Minuwangoda for Karasnagala plant works.
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Cabinet greenlights new National Action Plan to tackle human-elephant conflict
Cabinet approved drafting a new National Action Plan for human-elephant conflict, citing major shifts since the 2020 plan and impacts in 19 of 25 districts.
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Obesity rising in Sri Lankan schoolchildren as 17% of teenagers drink fizzy drinks regularly
Health Ministry Nutrition Unit Director Dr. Monika Wijeratne names fizzy drinks as primary driver; MOH-Education healthy school canteen guideline planned.
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Over 3,000 police deployed for Poson security in Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura DIG N.L. Sugathapala says over 3,000 police officers will be deployed for Poson and lifeguards stationed near lakes and reservoirs.
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Transformer fire briefly disrupts power at Galle National Hospital cancer unit
A transformer at the Galle National Hospital cancer unit caught fire on Tuesday, briefly cutting power before staff and city firefighters contained it.
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Korea-funded Rs. 501m Biomedical Engineering Centre opens June 16 with provincial rollout
Health Ministry will open a Rs. 501m Korea-funded Biomedical Engineering Centre on June 16 with Rs. 228m of equipment for six provincial units, Newswire said.