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The gazette notification has been issued declaring several areas as high-security zones.Accordingly, it is stated that President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Minister of Defense has issued this gazette announcement.These include the Supreme Court, High Court, Magistrate’s Court, Attorney General’s Department, Presidential Secretariat Office, Presidential Palace, and several other places around the Parliament complex.The relevant gazette notification is below.

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The Russian military-held Kurzan province, the Donbas republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, and parts of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia province launched a referendum today (23) to join Russia.This referendum will be held for 5 days and it is said that the people of those areas will have the opportunity to express their likes and dislikes regarding the decision to join as Russian territory.The results of the preliminary round of the referendum, which ends next Tuesday, are scheduled to be announced on Wednesday.The Donbas republics of Donetsk and Luhansk seceded from Ukraine in 2014, and last February Russia recognized Donetsk and Luhansk…

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The Sri Lankan Rupee has ranked third in the world in terms of depreciation of the local currency against the US dollar.This has been mentioned in the latest report released by Professor Steve Hanke, an economist at John Hopkins University in America.He points out in his report that according to that report, the Sri Lankan Rupee has depreciated by 47.79%.Zimbabwe and Cuba are in the first and second places in the world in terms of depreciating their local currency against the US dollar respectively.

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Striding Towards the Intelligent World White Paper ReleaseThe Striding Towards the Intelligent World Summit at HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 successfully concluded today. David Wang, Huawei’s Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board delivered a keynote speech titled Embracing the 5.5G Era: Striding Towards the Intelligent World at this summit.In this speech, he stressed that 5.5G is a key milestone on our path to an intelligent world and released Huawei’s latest series of white papers on the intelligent world. Wang also called upon the ICT industry to coordinate efforts around eight facets of this vision. By…

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In conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly session, a meeting was held between the American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is participating in that session.The purpose of the meeting was the crisis created between America and China based on Taiwan. The crisis began when US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan despite China’s objections.The Speaker of the American House of Representatives visited Taiwan and addressed the Taiwanese Parliament. There she emphasized that Taiwan has the full support of America. (Reuters)

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabri has met US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.It is said that this meeting took place at the dinner organized during the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

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Power World Gyms, Sri Lanka’s pioneering fitness arena, and the largest fitness training chain, recently opened its full-fledged fitness center at Ethul Kotte.The new 6000sqft gym offers a variety of convenient health and fitness options for the community. Equipped with state-of-the-art fitness equipment, the Gym features spacious training areas with facilities including a fully equipped cardio section, a free weight area, and personal training among other amenities. With the addition of this location, the Power World chain now has over 100,000sqft gym spaces and is by far the largest fitness training chain in Sri Lanka with an undisputed reputation among…

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The Department of Buddhist Affairs says that they hope to provide relief for the electricity bills of difficult temples.Buddhist Affairs Commissioner (Development) V Jayakodi mentioned that after the Buddhist Affairs Department gave a recommendation for the electricity bill of the temples according to the existing system, the electricity bill was created with concessions by the Electricity Board.He mentioned that a document is being prepared regarding difficult temples that are difficult to pay the electricity bill and recommendations are to be given for giving relief to those temples as before.Buddhist Affairs Commissioner (Development) V Jayakodi mentioned that a solar panel installation…

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The cabinet has approved the import of glyphosate for a period of 6 months for all agricultural activities in the 2022/23 season.The relevant cabinet decision also states that the decision to ban the import of glyphosate has affected all types of agricultural activities.Below is the relevant cabinet decision,

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