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Colombo, September 8 (Daily News) - President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday decided to remove the 14% income tax imposed on the profit earned by the gem and jewellery manufacturers and the 15% tax on gold imports. The income tax concession given to the gem and jewellery industry since 1971 was done away with under the income tax policy introduced in 2017. ...

September 4 (India Today) - Lionel Messi is all set to stay at Barcelona after weeks of speculation about his transfer away from the La Liga club. Messi's father and agent, Jorge, hinted about a compromise being reached after positive talks with Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu. Jorge met with club president Josep Bartomeu on Wednesday regarding his 33-year-old's future ...

Dubai, July 19 (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that some 25 million Iranians may have been infected with coronavirus, as Iran reimposed restrictions in the capital and elsewhere. The figure, from a report Rouhani cited in a televised speech, was far higher than Saturday’s official figure for infections of 271,606, and corresponds to more than 30% of ...

Mexico City, July 18 (Reuters) - A video depicting a sprawling military-style convoy of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels circulated on social networks on Friday just as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visited the group’s heartland. In the two-minute clip, members of the fearsome Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) stand in fatigues alongside a seemingly endless procession of ...

La Paz, July 10 (Reuters) - Bolivia’s President Jeanine Anez said on Thursday she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Anez said in a tweet she was “well” and continuing to work while in isolation. “Together, we will come out of this,” she said. The Bolivian government confirmed that at least seven ministers, including its health minister, had tested ...

Strictly orders civil and military officials not to participate in electioneering.

May 30 (ABC News) - Former President Barack Obama put out a statement on George Floyd, a black man who died after being pinned down by police in Minneapolis. "This shouldn't be 'normal' in 2020 America," he wrote. "It can't be 'normal.' If we want our children to grow up in a nation that lives up to its highest ideals, ...

Washington, May 9 (NYTimes) - In his eagerness to reopen the country, US President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Americans that it would be safe to go back to the workplace. But the past few days have demonstrated that even his own workplace may not be safe from the coronavirus. Vice-President Mike Pence's press secretary tested positive for the ...

May 6 (India Today) - Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will continue to serve as the president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) for another year due to 'extraordinary circumstances' in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic Kumar Sangakkara, who became the first non-British president of the MCC, has been offered the extension tenure by the MCC. The tenure ...

Nairobi, March 31 (Standard) - A virus-threatened nation turned to God for help yesterday as it entered a defining week in the ongoing fight to keep the killer coronavirus at bay. Leading the prayers, President Uhuru Kenyatta, in his own way, let Kenyans have a peek into the state of preparedness of the country over the pandemic. Streamed live from ...