The Cyclonic Storm ’Tauktae’ over the Arabian Sea would cross the Gujarat coast in India today around 11.00 pm, the Met department said.

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Some 141 people were arrested yesterday for walking on the roads violating ID card method introduced by the police.

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Former TNA Parliamentarian K. Thurairetnasingam passed away at the age of 80 while undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at the Kantale hospital.

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Attention will be paid to vaccinate all school teachers to ensure health care in schools to re-open them very soon, Education Minister G.L. Peiris said.

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Health authorities warned that there was a threat of a vaccine center coronavirus cluster emerging in the country.

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The transmission of COVID-19 among victims of the recent flash floods is minimal as the people who were in temporary shelters are being sent back to their homes, Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said yesterday.

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Nineteen COVID-19 deaths were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services today bringing the death toll to 981, the Government Information Department said.

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A special Cabinet meeting has been convened tomorrow (18) at 6.00 p.m., Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.

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Daily Covid-19 cases that crossed 2,500 have now averaged at 2,200 cases, but the health authorities cannot be complacent about the situation, an official said today.

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A total of 1,579 more COVID-19 patients have been detected so far today increasing the total cases reported in Sri Lanka to 144,325, the Government Information Department said.

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Three police areas in the Mullaitivu District would be placed under isolation with effect from 11.00 p.m. today (17), Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said.

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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that the Palestinian people’s legitimate right to statehood must be upheld amidst escalating tension between Palestine and Israel which had claimed many lives in recent weeks.

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A test carried out by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has revealed that the new premium hybrid 18 litre gas cylinder introduced by the Litro Gas Lanka Ltd contains the same chemical properties of the old cylinder whereas the Company claimed that the newly-introduced cylinder was more efficient, CAA Executive Director Thushan Jayawardane said.

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A 30-year-old woman was arrested with narcotic substances which has a street value of Rs. 9.5 million at a roadblock near Bodhiya Junction in Modara today.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has concluded its investigation into the documentary programme ’Cricket’s Match Fixers’ broadcast by Al Jazeera on May 27, 2018. No charges will be bought under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code against any of the five Participants to the Code who featured in the programme which alleged that two international matches were fixed.

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People who are diagnosed with the COVID-19 will be directed to the treatment centres and Intermediate Care Centres that are closest to the area of residence, the Health Ministry said.

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Trains will be back on track from 1.30 pm today after the unions were assured of COVID vaccines for train drivers’ and controllers’, the Railway Engine Drivers and Train Controllers’ Unions said.

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Seven Police stations in the Mullaithivu Police Division have obtained restraint orders preventing the week-long Mullivaikkal commemoration from May 18.

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Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera appealed to the public not to use polythene and plastic decorations for the Vesak festival.

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A group of inmates in the Old Bogambara Prison, who started a protest on the roof of the prison this morning (17), called off the protest a short while ago.

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Pradeep Gunawardene, chairman of the Lanka Salu Sala Limited passed away this morning at the Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) Hospital, Werahera while under treatment for COVID, the hospital sources said.

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With the daily count of new Covid reaching 2,275 yesterday, the Colombo district recorded 438 cases as the highest, the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said.

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A female development officer attached to the Kesbewa divisional Secretariat came under physical assault by an individual who had come to the scene in a motorcycle last evening at Hedigama in Piliyandala.

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Due to sudden trade union action by two Railway Trade Unions this morning, the Transport Ministry added more buses to facilitate office transport, Transport State Minister Dilum Amunugama said.

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Seventy Grama Niladhari Divisions in ten Districts have been isolated from 6.00 this morning, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said.

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The family of murdered rugger player Wasim Thajudeen say expecting justice over his killing has now become an illusion.

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