Sri Lankan Coal Company Requested Over 12 Million USD Amid Power Cuts Fear

COLOMBO, Feb 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Lanka Coal Company, incorporated to procure and supply coal for coal-fired thermal plants of Sri Lanka, yesterday, requested over 12 million U.S. dollars, to buy coal for power plants. Chairman of the Lanka Coal Company, Shehan Sumanasekara, told media that, he has asked the…

Four Women Died In Stampede In India

NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (NNN-PTI) – At least four women died and eight others were injured in a stampede, in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday, at a festival gathering, local police said. The incident occurred at the state’s Tirupathur district. The injured have been admitted to a local…

Myanmar Starts Pilot Electric Vehicle Project With Chinese-Made Cars

YANGON, Feb 5 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar is implementing a one-year electric vehicle (EV) pilot project, starting from Jan 1 until Dec 31 this year, after importing 40 Chinese-made electric cars, last month. Under the pilot project, 10 of the imported Chinese BYD e2 cars will run as electric taxis, in…

Seven Members Of Family Killed In Afghanistan’s Balkh Province

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Feb 5 (NNN-ANA) – Seven members of a family were mysteriously killed, in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Friday, said a statement of the provincial police office, yesterday. The gruesome incident took place in Jarqala village of Chamtal district late on Friday. The victims, including women, children and…

Pakistani Police Arrested Four Terrorists

ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (NNN-APP) – Pakistani police arrested four terrorists, in the country’s north-west Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a senior police official said, yesterday. Police personnel conducted a raid on the terrorists’ hideout, after the police were tipped off about their presence in the district, and four…

Pakistan Launched Mobile App For Currency Declaration Of Int’l Travellers

ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (NNN-APP) – The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) of Pakistan, launched a mobile application for foreign currency declaration of international travellers, the board said. “The travellers can benefit from the PassTrack APP to keep record of the currency limits and promote culture of compliance for the country’s…

Belize receives prisoner released from US naval base in Guantanamo

BELMOPAN, Feb 4 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Saudi-Pakistani citizen Majid Khan, who was released after 16 years in a military prison at the United States base in Guantanamo, Cuba, without being tried, is rebuilding his life in Belize.     A US Senate Intelligence Committee report released in 2014 exposed Khan’s mistreatment and…

Avalanche Killed Two, Injured Three In Northern Afghanistan

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Feb 4 (NNN-ANA) – Two people have been killed and three others injured, in an avalanche that hit a village in Raghistan district of Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province, yesterday, provincial government official, Mohammad Anwar said, today. The accident took place in Sar Asyab area of Raghistan district, late…

WHO launches new roadmap on breast cancer

GENEVA, Feb 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040. The new Framework launched ahead of the World Cancer Day campaign marked Saturday, recommends to countries…

Sri Lankan President Pardons 588 Prisoners On 75th Independence Day

COLOMBO, Feb 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka will release 588 prisoners today, on presidential amnesty, to mark the country’s 75th Independence Day, a senior official said yesterday. Commissioner of the Department of Prisons and Spokesman, Chandana Ekanayake said, 557 of them are those rehabilitated by courts on drug-related offences. He…
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