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Foreign media have reported that the Dart mission launched by NASA has been successful.Here, the possibility of safely changing the trajectory of asteroids that are at risk of collision with the Earth has been considered.Accordingly, a spaceship weighing about 610 kg has been made to collide with an asteroid.NASA says that this research has been successfully completed.Find out more by engaging Buzzer.lk and Buzzer Science & Technology.

The Department of Meteorology says that today (27th) there will be rain or thundershowers in Central, Uva, North-Central and Eastern Provinces and in Mullaitivu District in the evening or at night.Some places in North-Central, Central, Uva and Eastern Provinces received mm. The department states that heavy rains above 50 may occur.Few spots of rain may occur in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and Galle and Matara districts.The Department of Meteorology requests that people take necessary measures to minimize the dangers caused by temporary strong winds and lightning that may occur with thunderstorms.

The Director General of Health Services has confirmed that 01 Covid deaths were reported yesterday (25) and 09 Covid infected people were identified yesterday (26).According to that, the number of Covid-infected people identified in Sri Lanka is 670,718 and the number of Covid-related deaths is 16,755.

Edward Snowden, a US spy service contractor, has been granted citizenship by Russian President Putin.According to foreign media reports, he has been granted citizenship nine years after the controversial incident of revealing the data of the secret intelligence operations of the American National Security Agency (CIA).He was working in the CIA and in 2013 he revealed the domestic and international surveillance carried out by that agency.Later, Edward Snowden escaped from America and went to Russia and got asylum there.

The British pound has fallen to a record low against the US dollar.Foreign media report that this situation has arisen after the government of new Prime Minister Liz Truss announced the biggest tax cut in Great Britain in 50 years.In the Asian financial market, the sterling pound has fallen by 4.9% to 1.0327 dollars and the British sterling has depreciated like this since 1971, foreign media further states.

A businessman who came to deposit money at a private bank in Tambuttegama has been robbed of 223 lakh rupees by two armed men on a motorcycle.A police officer from the Various Complaints Division of Tambuttegama Police Station who was passing by the place when the two suspects were fleeing after robbing the money, subdued the armed suspects and arrested them and took the money of 223 lakh rupees into police custody at the same time.Accordingly, an officer named Police Sergeant Buddhika Kumara of Tambuttegama Police Station’s Various Complaints Division has taken steps to arrest the suspects.Police stated that the…

A Japanese space probe has retrieved specks of dust from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres from Earth. The surprising content was a drop of water, scientists said Friday. Earlier analyses have suggested that life on Earth may have come from outer space, and the new discovery lends support to it.”This drop of water has great meaning,” lead scientist Tomoki Nakamura of Tohoku University told reporters ahead of the research’s publication in the journal Science on Friday.”Many researchers believe that water was brought (from outer space) but we actually discovered water in Ryugu, an asteroid near Earth, for the first…

Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera says that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation will respond legally to the allegations regarding the quality of imported crude oil.According to this, the Minister states in a Twitter message that the Petroleum Statutory Corporation will respond legally to the allegations made by the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUCSL).The minister has also mentioned that the oil corporation has sufficient stocks of diesel and fuel oil.The Minister’s Twitter message further states that the Ceylon Electricity Board has requested an extended power cut due to the collapse of Lakshapana, and the lack of adequate provisions for diesel and…

The rice flour processing factory reserved for the trainees of the Gannoruwa Agricultural Training Institute was brought under the National Food Promotion Board and production started yesterday (25th).This factory was opened with the participation of the Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera and the Minister of State Mohan de Silva and the sales and distribution of the rice flour processing products produced here have been made nationwide with the contribution of Haley’s Company.The Chairman of the Food Promotion Board Mr Palinda Sagara mentioned that the rice flour produced here is also distributed by the shops of the National Food Promotion Board.Steps…

The Department of Meteorology says that there may be some rain in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and Galle and Matara districts today (26).The department mentioned that rain or thundershowers may occur in other areas in the evening or at night.Some places in North-Central, Central, Uva and Eastern Provinces may experience heavy rains of more than 75 mm.The Department of Meteorology requests that people take necessary measures to minimize the dangers caused by temporary solid winds and lightning that may occur with thunderstorms.