Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar passes away.

Legendary Bollywood actor Mohammed Yusuf Khan, known professionally as Dilip Kumar passed away at the age 98. He was popularly known as the "tragedy king of Bollywood".  He was the first actor to win the Filmfare Award for Best Actor in 1954 and won it a total of 8…

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Nimali Liyanarachchi qualifies for Tokyo Olympics.

Sri Lankan athlete Nimali Liyanarachchi has qualified for the 800m Women’s event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The National Olympic Committee said Nimali Liyanarachchi qualified by Universality Place for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and she will represent Sri Lanka for Ath…

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Chinese astronauts carry out country's first spacewalk outside space station

Chinese astronauts on Sunday successfully carried out the country's first spacewalk outside their space station -- a significant milestone in its rapidly expanding space program. The spacewalk is only the second by Chinese astronauts since the Shenzhou 7 manned mission o…

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Tropical Storm Elsa poised to make landfall in Florida.

Tropical Storm Elsa, which has weakened from the first hurricane of the season, is poised to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday, 07 July 2021. A warning is in force for a 200-mile (300km) stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Tampa Bay. The storm battered Cu…

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Pakistan rejects its 'baseless inclusion' in US child soldier recruiter list.

Reacting strongly to Pakistan’s inclusion in the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) list by the United States, the Foreign Office said the move depicted “a factual error and lack of understanding”, and urged Washington to review the “baseless assertions” made against the …

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World Zoonoses Day - 06 July.

World Zoonoses Day is observed every year on July 6 to commemorate the first vaccination administered against a zoonotic disease like Ebola, Avian influenza, and West Nile virus. Zoonosis is an infectious disease that spread from non-human animals to humans. Zoonotic pathog…

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James Anderson takes 1000th first-class wicket.

Veteran England fast bowler James Anderson has added another feather to his cap as he completed 1000 wickets in first-class cricket. Anderson achieved the rare feat during Lancashire's County Championship clash against Kent in Manchester. Anderson is the leading wicket-…

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Norway's Karsten Warholm breaks men's 400 metres hurdles world record.

Karsten Warholm, a 25-year-old athlete from Norway, broke the long-standing world record in the 400m hurdles during the Bislett Games. Earlier the record was held by American hurdler Kevin Young for 29 years.  His mark of 46.78 seconds was set at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelon…

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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to mark 75th wedding anniversary.

Former president Jimmy Carter, the longest living president, has accomplished a lot in his 96 years, but his longest-running accomplishment is his marriage to former first lady Rosalynn Carter. The couple will celebrate their 75th anniversary on July 7, marking nearly eight…

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Veteren Film Director Richard Donner Dies.

Richard Donner, the prolific Hollywood director and producer whose helming credits include some of the most iconic movies of the 1970s and ’80s including the Christopher Reeve-starring Superman, The Goonies and the Mel Gibson-Danny Glover buddy cop series Lethal Weapon, has…

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Jeff Bezos steps down from Amazon.

Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, stepped down as Amazon CEO on last Monday (July 5, 2021). Bezos chose July 5 as it was exactly 27 years ago on that date in 1994 when he founded Amazon.  However, the 57-year old, won't be going far from Amazon and will be the exe…

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India captain Mithali Raj became the highest run-getter in women's cricket.

India captain Mithali Raj became the highest run-getter in women's cricket across formats, overtaking former England skipper Charlotte Edwards. Mithali became the world's most prolific batter in women's internationals, overtaking Edwards' 10,273 runs. Suzie …

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Egypt Inaugurates Its Largest Naval Base to Maintain Maritime Security.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the ‘July 3 Naval Base’ located in Gargoub area in Egypt’s northwest coast. The July 3 Naval Base is regarded as Egypt’s largest naval base and stretches over 10 million square meters, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Accor…

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Max Verstappen wins Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix 2021.

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring, the ninth race of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship season.  Verstappen won the race ahead of Mercedes-AMG's Valtteri Bottas and McLaren's Lando Norris. Lewis Hamilton - Bottas' teamm…

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Former Sri Lanka Cricket performance analyst Sanath Jayasundara banned for corruption.

The anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC has banned Sanath Jayasundara, a former Sri Lanka Cricket performance analyst, from all cricket for seven years after he was found guilty of breaching the ICC anti-corruption code. In January 2019, Jayasundara had attempted to bribe Sr…

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Sirisha Bandla, the 3rd Indian-born woman astronaut to fly to space.

Andhra Pradesh-born astronaut Sirisha Bandla will be flying to space with UK billionaire and founder of the Virgin Galactic company Richard Branson on July 11, 2021. Bandla will be taking care of the researcher's experience on the Unity22 mission. She will be one of the …

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Israeli researchers develop world's tiniest technology.

Israeli researchers have engineered the world's tiniest technology, with a thickness of only two atoms. The new technology, described in a study published in the journal Science, enables the storage of information in the thinnest unit known to science in one of the most …

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Gulzarilal Nanda, former Prime Minister's birth anniversary - 04 July.

Gulzarilal Nanda, (born July 4, 1898, Sialkot, Punjab, British India [now in Pakistan]—died January 15, 1998, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India), Indian politician who twice served briefly as interim prime minister, in 1964 following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru and in 1966 upon t…

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US Celebrates 245th Independence Day on 04 July.

The United States celebrated its Independence Day on Sunday 04 July, the 245th anniversary of its founding and this year a symbolic renewal of many family and public celebrations that had been curtailed for more than a year by coronavirus pandemic restrictions. U.S. Presiden…

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U.S. hands Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years

After nearly 20 years, the U.S. military left Bagram Airfield, the epicenter of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. The airfield was handed over to the Afghan National Security and Defense Force in its…

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U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson suspended for one month.

U.S. track sensation Sha'Carri Richardson, who punched her ticket to the Tokyo Games after winning the women’s 100-meter race last month, has been suspended for one month after testing positive for THC, the chemical in cannabis. Richardson failed a drug test following he…

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International Day of Cooperatives - 03 July.

Every year on the first Saturday of July, the International Day of Cooperatives celebrates the cooperative movement. The day also highlights the complementary goals, objectives, and contributions of cooperatives around the world. In the year 2021, the International Day of Co…

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Virat Kohli is the highest ranking Indian on Instagram.

Virat Kohli is the highest ranking Indian on the Hopper Instagram Rich List this year, bagging $680,000 (over ₹5 crore) for every promotional post on the photo-sharing socia media platform. The Indian cricket team captain has more than 125 million followers on Instagram righ…

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OneWeb has launched 36 satellites.

British based tech company OneWeb has launched 36 satellites on 01 July, at 6:18 pm IST. Named Flight ST33, the launch took place from the Soyuz launch complex in Vostochny Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport.  Arianespace will be operating this launch on OneWeb's behalf, an…

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Korean Air wins Air Transport World's Airline of the Year Award.

Korean Air has been announced the winner of one of the most prestigious honors in the aviation industry: Air Transport World’s (ATW) 2021 Airline of the Year. Launched in 1974, ATW’s annual Airline Industry Achievement Awards are compared to the Academy Awards of the airline…

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Sir Richard Branson sets 11 July to make spaceflight.

Sir Richard Branson has named the date he'll fly to the edge of space. It will be 11 July, or very soon after. He'll be a passenger in the back of the Unity rocket plane his Virgin Galactic company has been developing in the US for the better part of two decades. The …

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UN confirms 18.3C record heat in Antarctica.

The United Nations recognised a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent, confirming a reading of 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) made last year. The record heat was reached at Argentina's Esperanza research station on the Antarctic Peninsul…

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IBM President Jim Whitehurst steps down.

IBM has announced that Jim Whitehurst has decided to step down as President of the company just 14 months after joining in that role. Whitehurst has played a pivotal role in the $34 billion IBM and Red Hat integration announced in 2018. He will continue to work as senior advi…

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World Sports Journalists Day: 02 July

World Sports Journalists Day is observed globally on 2nd July every year. The day aims to acknowledge the work of sports journalists & to encourage them to do better at their work. Sports journalists help millions of people in the world to receive information on various…

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Rafael unveils Sea Breaker AI missile with 300 km range.

Israeli defense electronics company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has unveiled Sea Breaker, a 5th generation long range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system, which can precisely target sea and land targets up to a range of 300 kilometers. Sea Breaker features an ad…

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CCPI based Inflation increased to 5.2 per cent in June 2021.

Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI, 2013=100), increased to 5.2 per cent in June 2021 from 4.5 per cent in May 2021. This was driven by monthly increases of prices of items in both Food and Non-food c…

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New Chairman for Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce elected Mr. Vish Govindasamy as its Chairman during the Chamber’s 182nd Annual General Meeting on Tuesday (29). Mr. Govindasamy succeeds Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya who completed his 2-Year Term as Chairman at the culmination of the Annual General M…

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Sri Lanka’s first online book library for children.

Anyone who missed visiting libraries and bookstores, and have found it a challenge to keep your little one engaged and occupied at home, Wooks.lk offers a simple yet effective solution.  Wooks.lk was born out of the desire and need to offer interactive children’s books in a …

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CSE Signs MoU with CHEC Port City Colombo.

The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and CHEC Port City Colombo signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance the capital markets in Sri Lanka by taking advantage of the Port City Colombo’s special emphasis of the Colombo International Financial Center, in order to esta…

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World UFO Day - 02 Junly.

World UFO Day commemorates two separate dates. The first, on June 24th, recognizes the first widely reported UFO sighting on this same day in 1947 by aviator Kenneth Arnold.  On July 2nd, the date commemorates the incident that took place in Roswell, New Mexico, in the same …

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Kanya D’Almeida becomes first Sri Lankan to win Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Kanya D’Almeida has been declared the overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for a "captivating" tale set in a Sri Lankan "sanctuary for the forsaken". D’Almeida, from Colombo, Sri Lanka, was named the winner by actress Dona Croll in an onl…

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2021 International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV)

2021 has been designated by the UN General Assembly as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV). The IYFV is a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the important role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition, food security and health as well as in achie…

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Greece recovers Picasso, Mondrian paintings stolen in 2012.

Greece has recovered works of art by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, stolen from its National Gallery in 2012. Thieves broke into the gallery and snatched Picasso’s 1939 painting “Woman’s Head”, donated by the Spanish artist in 1949, and Dutch painter Mondrian’s “Mill” date…

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"Decoding Shankar" won the Best Film Award.

Indian Freelance filmmaker Deepti Pillay Sivan’s most touted documentary, “Decoding Shankar” about the life and career of the celebrated musician Shankar Mahadevan, recently won the Best Film Award in the Documentary section (Best Biographical) at the Toronto International …

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India’s oldest operating newspaper, "Mumbai Samachar", passed 200 years.

On July 1, India’s oldest operating newspaper, Mumbai Samachar, will enter its 200th 12 months. The Gujarati newspaper, with its workplace positioned in an iconic crimson constructing at Horniman Circle in Mumbai’s Fort space, was first revealed in 1822. It was based by a Pa…

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Donald Rumsfeld dies at age 88.

Donald Rumsfeld – Republican power broker, controversial defense secretary and architect of the Iraq War – died Tuesday 29 June 2021, days before his 89th birthday. The cause of Rumsfeld's death was multiple myeloma, according to his spokesman, Keith Urbahn. President Geo…

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China declared officially as a malaria-free country by WHO.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared China malaria-free, after a 70-year effort to wipe it out. China used to report 30 million cases a year during the 1940s. Since then, eradication efforts have driven down case numbers. The country used various methods to break …

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Global Cybersecurity Index 2020

The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published its 2020 Global Cyber Security Index on Tuesday 29 June 2021, and listed the US first in overall ranking, followed by a tie for second place tie between the UK and Saudi Arabia. The index ranks nations …

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Jaswar Umar elected President of Football Sri Lanka.

Mr. Jaswar Umar has been elected as the new President of Football Sri Lanka (FSL), during the election of the federation’s office-bearers held today (30). Mr. Umar received a total of 96 votes to narrowly edge out the other candidate for the presidency, Dr. Manil Fernando wh…

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International Reggae Day - 01 July.

Every year on July 1st, International Reggae Day celebrates reggae culture and its influence on Jamaican music. Reggae developed in the 1960s and evolved into a popular style of music. With its roots in Jamaica, Reggae music is an integral part of the Jamaican culture. It is…

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