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“Bright girls are bold and confident. They’re not ashamed or scared of their period or their body.”Demi SpaccaventoThe Rotaract Club of Informatics Institute of Technology (RACIIT) is recognized for its initiatives aligned with Rotary International’s 7 focus areas and the UN’s 17 SDG goals. “WeCan” is a project by RACIIT to raise awareness about menstrual health and hygiene, which earned the club the Bronze award at the 31st Rotaract District Assembly and the Gold award at the 32nd Rotaract District Assembly.In today’s society, the topic of menstruation, in general, is considered taboo, it is spoken of in hushed tones and…

A meeting was held between the new Brazilian President Lula da Silva and the American President Joe Biden. That was when the President of Brazil came to Washington, the capital of America.American President Biden arranged to warmly welcome President Lula de Silva at the White House. This is the third time that Lula da Silva, a left-wing politician, has been elected president of Brazil. He was sworn in as president for the third time last January. After assuming the presidency, he came to America and started his first foreign trip.President Biden explained to the Brazilian President that he will provide…

Election Commissioner General Saman Sri Ratnayake says that 100 million rupees have been given from the treasury for the local government elections.Accordingly, he mentioned that the marking of postal votes related to local government elections will be done on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of this month as scheduled.He also mentioned that if they are unable to mark their vote in these three days due to something, they can mark their postal vote on the 28th in front of the returning officer of the district where their institution is located.Election Commissioner General Saman Sri Ratnayake further stated that 36,000 postal…

Super soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo scored the 500th goal in his club football career last Thursday. Ronaldo reached that milestone by scoring 4 goals for the Al Nasr team and the number of goals he has collected so far is 503.Ronaldo did this against Al Wehda in the Saudi Pro League and scored all 4 goals within a span of 30 minutes.Ronaldo has scored 103 goals for Manchester United, 311 goals for Real Madrid, 81 goals for Juventus, 3 goals for Sporting Lisbon and currently 5 goals for Al Nasr. With the four goals scored here, the number of hat-trick…

The Department of Meteorology says that rain or thundershowers may occur at a few places in Ratnapura, Kalutara, Galle and Matara districts during the evening or at night.The department stated that there is mainly rainless weather on the rest of the island.The wind is blowing from the northeast direction and the wind speed is around 20 to 30 kilometres per hour also there is a possibility that the wind speed will increase from 40 to 45 kilometres per hour from time to time in the offshore areas from Mannar to Puttalam, Colombo to Galle and from Matara to Hambantota to…

The death toll from the earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria has passed 25,000. Turkey has suffered the most damage from earthquakes. According to foreign media, the death toll in Turkey alone has exceeded 21,000.Earthquakes happened a week ago. Rescue operations continue. Rescue teams managed to free a girl who was trapped in the rubble for more than 100 hours. However, it was also confirmed that she died after being hospitalized.It is also reported that the police had to protect houses and shops from thieves in the earthquake-damaged city of Antakya. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has implemented a state…

The Police Cavalry Division says that the program of providing local food to horses owned by the Police Cavalry Division was successful due to the dollar crisis. Due to the existing dollar crisis, it is difficult to import food for these horses from foreign countries, so the Police Cavalry Division has started a program of providing local food.Accordingly, during the last three months, measures were taken to provide the horses with local food such as Kollu, peas, green beans and maize. Accordingly, the weight of these horses is gradually increasing, the Police Cavalry Division said. (Divaina)

Peradeniya University Professor of Geography Atula Senaratne says that the cause of the earthquakes in the Buttala area could be an earthquake in the Carlsberg mountain range at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.He said that according to international data, earthquakes are not recorded in the Buttala area and he said that a shock that happened in a mountain called Carlsberg Mount on the bottom of the sea may have been felt like this.It is also reported that two teams of scientists have left for Monaragala and Buttala areas to investigate the earthquakes reported yesterday (10) and today (11).

The Disaster Management Center says that another minor earthquake with a magnitude of 2.3 on the Richter scale was reported from Buttala, Wellawaya area at around 3 am today.A small earthquake of 3.0 on the Richter scale was reported in several areas of the Monaragala district yesterday.The National Building Research Organization (NBRO) says there is no danger and urges everyone to remain calm and avoid undue panic.

The Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 cricket tournament started yesterday (10) in South Africa. Accordingly, the first match was held between Sri Lanka and South Africa.Batting first, the Sri Lanka women’s team scored 129 runs by losing 04 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. There, captain Chamari Athapattu scored 68 points and Vishmi Gunaratne scored 35 points. Shabnim Ismail, Marzan Kapp and Nadine De Clark took a wicket each for the African team in bowling.The South African team, which played the reply innings, managed to collect only 126 runs with the loss of 09 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs.…