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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Select Committee Chairman and Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa at the proceedings of the Select Committee of Parliament to Study and Report to Parliament its Recommendations to Ensure Communal and Religious Harmony in Sri Lanka.

Former Mayor of Colombo A.J.M. Muzammil has been appointed as the new Governor of the Western Province. He was sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena, a short while ago, at the presidential secretariat in Colombo, the PresidentMedia Division said.

AFGHANISTAN: Two people were killed and dozens more wounded in Kabul on Sunday as a wave of bombings hit civilian targets -- including a university school bus -- across the Afghan capital.The yellow bus had been heading to Kabul Education University in the western part of the city Sunday morning when it was hit by a sticky bomb -- a growing menace in Kabul, where insurgents and criminals use magnets to slap explosives on vehicles.

Cardiff: Veteran paceman Lasith Malinga said Sri Lanka must be mentally tough against Afghanistan as they seek to get their World Cup campaign up and running on Tuesday. The 1996 world champions were thumped by 10 wickets in their opening match against New Zealand in Cardiff on Saturday.